History Extra podcast

• Was Napoleon III the world's first populist leader?
  2026-09-10 23:00:00
• The Bayeux Tapestry blockbuster at the British Museum
  2026-09-08 23:00:00
• The secrets of our DNA
  2026-09-07 23:00:00
• What's it like to live in a royal palace?
  2026-09-06 23:00:00
• Roman kings: myth, memory and the making of power
  2026-09-03 23:00:00
• Philip Augustus: the Plantagenets’ greatest rival
  2026-09-01 23:00:00
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: life of the week
  2026-08-31 23:00:00
• How bullies shaped 19th-century America
  2026-08-30 23:00:00
• Is there a royal sex scandal hidden in plain sight in the Bayeux tapestry?
  2026-08-29 23:00:00
• Did Britain really 'keep calm and carry on' in WW2?
  2026-08-27 23:00:00
• Did the Catholic Church support Hitler?
  2026-08-25 23:00:00
• Frida Kahlo: life of the week
  2026-08-24 23:00:00
• How the Americas transformed Tudor England
  2026-08-23 23:00:00
• Preview: Master the medieval art of knowing yourself
  2026-08-22 23:00:00
• Have we got ancient women's sexuality all wrong?
  2026-08-20 23:00:00
• Adultery, assassination and Agatha Christie: the dark side of the hotel
  2026-08-18 23:00:00
• Hedy Lamarr: life of the week
  2026-08-17 23:00:00
• How WW2 transformed Asia
  2026-08-16 23:00:00
• Preview: Was Jack the Ripper Queen Victoria's grandson?
  2026-08-15 23:00:00
• How opium became a powerful global commodity
  2026-08-13 23:00:00
• A wild history of partying
  2026-08-11 23:00:00
• Yuri Gagarin: life of the week
  2026-08-10 23:00:00
• How Christianity conquered the Roman empire
  2026-08-09 23:00:00
• The Odyssey’s forgotten epilogue
  2026-08-08 23:00:00
• Why did witches confess?
  2026-08-06 23:00:00
• Inside the Maya storyworld
  2026-08-04 23:00:00
• Zheng Yi Sao: life of the week
  2026-08-03 23:00:00
• The Fifth Crusade: triumph, disaster and the battle for Egypt
  2026-08-02 23:00:00
• Is the Odyssey myth or memory?
  2026-08-01 23:00:00
• Renaissance Italy's firearm revolution
  2026-07-30 23:00:00
• How blood banks saved Britain in WW2
  2026-07-28 23:00:00
• Pericles: life of the week
  2026-07-27 23:00:00
• Did Churchill save the monarchy?
  2026-07-26 23:00:00
• Gods and monsters: the hidden stories of the Odyssey
  2026-07-25 23:00:00
• Preview: Was Elizabeth I one of history’s greatest leaders?
  2026-07-24 23:00:00
• The Bayeux Tapestry's secret code of tyranny and injustice
  2026-07-23 23:00:00
• How to survive a day in the 14th century
  2026-07-21 23:00:00
• Bess of Hardwick: life of the week
  2026-07-20 23:00:00
• Alliance and acrimony: a history of Jewish-Muslim relations
  2026-07-19 23:00:00
• Who wrote the Odyssey?
  2026-07-18 23:00:00
• 1966: The World Cup that changed a nation
  2026-07-16 23:00:00
• How Rome really conquered Britain
  2026-07-14 23:00:00
• Edward Colston: life of the week
  2026-07-13 23:00:00
• Was Elizabeth Báthory really a serial killer?
  2026-07-12 23:00:00
• What did the American Revolution really achieve?
  2026-07-11 23:00:00
• The captain's wife who took command
  2026-07-09 23:00:00
• What could you eat in Georgian London?
  2026-07-07 23:00:00
• Pablo Picasso: life of the week
  2026-07-06 23:00:00
• When football became a weapon of the Cold War
  2026-07-05 23:00:00
• How Britain lost America
  2026-07-04 23:00:00
• A history of the US in 100 unexpected objects
  2026-07-02 23:00:00
• An A-Z history of the English alphabet
  2026-06-30 23:00:00
• Abigail Adams: life of the week
  2026-06-29 23:00:00
• The astonishing laws of medieval Wales
  2026-06-28 23:00:00
• Inside the Declaration of Independence
  2026-06-27 23:00:00
• Cannibalism, heartbreak and Madame Guillotine: George Forster's extraordinary life
  2026-06-25 23:00:00
• Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes
  2026-06-23 23:00:00
• Emma Goldman: life of the week
  2026-06-22 23:00:00
• Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup
  2026-06-21 23:00:00
• The road to the American Revolutionary War
  2026-06-20 23:00:00
• The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world
  2026-06-18 23:00:00
• Strangers and aliens in Tudor England
  2026-06-16 23:00:00
• Alexander the Great: life of the week
  2026-06-15 23:00:00
• What myths do we tell about royal women?
  2026-06-14 23:00:00
• Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife
  2026-06-13 23:00:00
• Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War
  2026-06-11 23:00:00
• Churchill's toughest decision
  2026-06-09 23:00:00
• Henry Paget: life of the week
  2026-06-08 23:00:00
• The hidden history of female sexual pleasure
  2026-06-07 23:00:00
• Why Cleopatra was more than a bewitching beauty
  2026-06-06 23:00:00
• Better than Bridgerton: the real Georgian masquerade
  2026-06-04 23:00:00
• Weimar's descent from democracy to barbarism
  2026-06-02 23:00:00
• Alan Turing: life of the week
  2026-06-01 23:00:00
• The self-made Marilyn Monroe
  2026-05-31 23:00:00
• Cleopatra’s bloody rise to power
  2026-05-30 23:00:00
• Gullible Georgians: hoaxes in the Enlightenment period
  2026-05-28 23:00:00
• Spies, radicals and deportees: one hotel in wartime Paris
  2026-05-26 23:00:00
• Timur: life of the week
  2026-05-25 23:00:00
• How Orkney became the centre of Viking Age violence
  2026-05-24 23:00:00
• Young Cleopatra: the making of a queen
  2026-05-23 23:00:00
• A history of Christian sacrifice
  2026-05-21 23:00:00
• Redefining historical mothers
  2026-05-19 23:00:00
• Lady Jane Grey: life of the week
  2026-05-18 23:00:00
• The peacemakers of WW2
  2026-05-17 23:00:00
• The long shadow of the Black Death
  2026-05-16 23:00:00
• The secret plot to end Scottish independence
  2026-05-14 23:00:00
• How did communism conquer China?
  2026-05-12 23:00:00
• Olaf Tryggvason: life of the week
  2026-05-11 23:00:00
• The death of Adolf Hitler
  2026-05-10 23:00:00
• Fear and faith: coping with the Black Death
  2026-05-09 23:00:00
• Attenborough: a life on screen
  2026-05-07 23:00:00
• A worker's eye-view of ancient Rome
  2026-05-05 23:00:00
• Niccolò Machiavelli: life of the week
  2026-05-04 23:00:00
• How to pull off a Georgian dinner party
  2026-05-03 23:00:00
• The Black Death: a global contagion
  2026-05-02 23:00:00
• George Orwell's final chapter
  2026-04-30 23:00:00
• Was Elizabeth II's reign a golden age?
  2026-04-28 23:00:00
• Johannes Vermeer: life of the week
  2026-04-27 23:00:00
• When did Roman Britain really end?
  2026-04-26 23:00:00
• How the Vikings reshaped Anglo-Saxon England
  2026-04-25 23:00:00
• Preview: The surprising history of pizza
  2026-04-24 23:00:00
• A short history of running
  2026-04-23 23:00:00
• Mary Beard on why the classics still matter
  2026-04-21 23:00:00
• Elizabeth II: life of the week
  2026-04-20 23:00:00
• Retracing Eleanor of Castile's final journey
  2026-04-19 23:00:00
• How Alfred the Great saved the Anglo-Saxons from the Vikings
  2026-04-18 23:00:00
• How to find a billion-dollar shipwreck
  2026-04-16 23:00:00
• A fantastical history of fairies
  2026-04-14 23:00:00
• Aud the Deep-Minded: life of the week
  2026-04-13 23:00:00
• How Tudor London inspired literary genius
  2026-04-12 23:00:00
• The rise of Alfred the Great
  2026-04-11 23:00:00
• Stalin's murderous vendetta against Trotsky
  2026-04-09 23:00:00
• A new take on the battle of Hastings
  2026-04-07 23:00:00
• Mrs Beeton: life of the week
  2026-04-06 23:00:00
• The battle of the Arctic: the overlooked crucible of WW2
  2026-04-05 23:00:00
• How the Vikings pushed Anglo-Saxon England to the brink
  2026-04-04 23:00:00
• How to stay healthy in the Middle Ages
  2026-04-02 23:00:00
• Europe's Muslim history
  2026-03-31 23:00:00
• Attila the Hun: life of the week
  2026-03-30 23:00:00
• Captured by Barbary corsairs: an Englishwoman's extraordinary tale
  2026-03-29 23:00:00
• Was Elizabeth I's reign really a 'golden age'?
  2026-03-29 00:00:00
• Spy, hero, rebel, traitor: the story of Roger Casement
  2026-03-27 00:00:00
• The relentless rise of the mafia
  2026-03-25 00:00:00
• Harriet Martineau: life of the week
  2026-03-24 00:00:00
• Sores, sweat and secretions: the pox in early modern London
  2026-03-23 00:00:00
• Elizabeth’s enemies: plots, rivals and the Spanish Armada
  2026-03-22 00:00:00
• Britain and the looted African gold
  2026-03-20 00:00:00
• The devastating Jewish revolt against the Roman empire
  2026-03-18 00:00:00
• Culture and conflict: a historical tour of Dublin
  2026-03-17 00:00:00
• How Rasputin helped doom the Romanovs
  2026-03-16 00:00:00
• Elizabeth I: a woman in a man’s world
  2026-03-15 00:00:00
• Life on the mean streets of 19th-century London
  2026-03-13 00:00:00
• Trailblazers and troublemakers: women who made French history
  2026-03-11 00:00:00
• Vladimir Lenin: life of the week
  2026-03-10 00:00:00
• Why Britons rejected fascism in the 1930s
  2026-03-09 00:00:00
• Young Elizabeth I: the making of a queen
  2026-03-08 00:00:00
• A poetic history of England
  2026-03-06 00:00:00
• The hidden history behind Mount Rushmore
  2026-03-04 00:00:00
• Juana Inés de la Cruz: life of the week
  2026-03-03 00:00:00
• The forgotten wars that redefined Europe
  2026-03-02 00:00:00
• Does Magna Carta matter today?
  2026-03-01 00:00:00
• Slavery in the Islamic world
  2026-02-27 00:00:00
• The real women behind Europe's greatest legends
  2026-02-25 00:00:00
• Thomas Edison: life of the week
  2026-02-24 00:00:00
• Following the footsteps of a WW2 prisoner of war
  2026-02-23 00:00:00
• Magna Carta: why didn't King John keep his word?
  2026-02-22 00:00:00
• How to be a Victorian
  2026-02-20 00:00:00
• "The streets will run with blood!": the uprising that shook Victorian Britain
  2026-02-18 00:00:00
• Pocahontas: life of the week
  2026-02-17 00:00:00
• The ruthless revolution that made Britain great
  2026-02-16 00:00:00
• The Magna Carta myth
  2026-02-15 00:00:00
• Terrible puns and filthy limericks: the Victorian sense of humour
  2026-02-13 00:00:00
• What your hands say about you – according to history
  2026-02-11 00:00:00
• Thomas More: life of the week
  2026-02-10 00:00:00
• Going on strike in ancient Rome
  2026-02-09 00:00:00
• Magna Carta: king v barons
  2026-02-08 00:00:00
• Untold LGBTQ stories of the National Trust
  2026-02-06 00:00:00
• Why Greenwich is the home of time
  2026-02-04 00:00:00
• James Gillray: life of the week
  2026-02-03 00:00:00
• Churchill and de Gaulle: a strange relationship
  2026-02-02 00:00:00
• Why Pompeii's tragedy still captivates us today
  2026-02-01 00:00:00
• The United States and Latin America: a turbulent history
  2026-01-30 00:00:00
• History's most mysterious manuscripts
  2026-01-28 00:00:00
• Francisco Franco: life of the week
  2026-01-27 00:00:00
• How grim was life on Hitler's U-boats?
  2026-01-26 00:00:00
• How ancient Pompeii was rediscovered
  2026-01-25 00:00:00
• Why Belgian agents risked their lives spying for Britain
  2026-01-23 00:00:00
• How tanks redefined warfare
  2026-01-21 00:00:00
• Robert McNamara: life of the week
  2026-01-20 00:00:00
• The road to the Holocaust
  2026-01-19 00:00:00
• The final days of Pompeii
  2026-01-18 00:00:00
• Life in the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain
  2026-01-16 00:00:00
• The hidden history of US immigration detention
  2026-01-14 00:00:00
• Emperor Hirohito: life of the week
  2026-01-13 00:00:00
• Secrets of the Romans' spectacular success
  2026-01-12 00:00:00
• Before the volcano: life in ancient Pompeii
  2026-01-11 00:00:00
• How do you solve a problem like Napoleon?
  2026-01-09 00:00:00
• What does history teach us about protest?
  2026-01-07 00:00:00
• Hatshepsut: life of the week
  2026-01-06 00:00:00
• Tragedy and triumph: a 500-year history of Mexico
  2026-01-05 00:00:00
• Jane Austen’s final chapter – and lasting legacy
  2026-01-04 00:00:00
• Prophetesses & she-preachers of the 17th century
  2026-01-02 00:00:00
• New Year's Eve, newts and Nessie: a history of British folklore
  2025-12-31 00:00:00
• Augustus: life of the week
  2025-12-30 00:00:00
• Inside the Viking battle of the genders
  2025-12-29 00:00:00
• A house of one’s own: Jane Austen’s ‘golden years’
  2025-12-28 00:00:00
• Æthelstan: the king who made England
  2025-12-26 00:00:00
• Did the WW1 Christmas truce really happen?
  2025-12-24 00:00:00
• Father Christmas: life of the week
  2025-12-23 00:00:00
• When was the best time in English history to be alive?
  2025-12-22 00:00:00
• “I am to flirt my last”: Jane Austen’s twenties
  2025-12-21 00:00:00
• The secret propaganda war against the Nazis
  2025-12-19 00:00:00
• The many faces of James VI & I
  2025-12-17 00:00:00
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: life of the week
  2025-12-16 00:00:00
• A short history of ghost hunting
  2025-12-15 00:00:00
• Becoming Jane Austen
  2025-12-14 00:00:00
• Ghosts, gods & sea monsters: a supernatural history of the Atlantic
  2025-12-12 00:00:00
• The summer that changed everything for the Kennedys
  2025-12-10 00:00:00
• Margaret Beaufort: life of the week
  2025-12-09 00:00:00
• Idi Amin's willing helpers
  2025-12-08 00:00:00
• “You can’t kill and maim with impunity”: the powerful legacy of Nuremberg
  2025-12-07 00:00:00
• Assassins vs Templars
  2025-12-05 00:00:00
• WW2's Tunisian campaign: the Stalingrad of Africa
  2025-12-03 00:00:00
• Empress Matilda: life of the week
  2025-12-02 00:00:00
• How warhorses transformed medieval England
  2025-12-01 00:00:00
• Did the Nazis get a fair trial?
  2025-11-30 00:00:00
• Forgotten female secret agents of WW2
  2025-11-28 00:00:00
• What causes cultures to decline and fall?
  2025-11-26 00:00:00
• Christopher Marlowe: life of the week
  2025-11-25 00:00:00
• Uprising: the Civil Wars untangled
  2025-11-24 00:00:00
• The Nazis’ crimes laid bare
  2025-11-23 00:00:00
• What does Hitler’s DNA really tell us?
  2025-11-22 00:00:00
• Mutilated corpses and undead mothers-in-law: vampire epidemics through history
  2025-11-21 00:00:00
• The problem with poo: a millennium of manure
  2025-11-19 00:00:00
• James Garfield: life of the week
  2025-11-18 00:00:00
• A new history of multicultural Britain
  2025-11-17 00:00:00
• What should we do with the Nazis? The road to the Nuremberg Trials
  2025-11-16 00:00:00
• Who stole the Tudor crown?
  2025-11-14 00:00:00
• The librarian who stole KGB secrets
  2025-11-12 00:00:00
• Nellie Bly: life of the week
  2025-11-11 00:00:00
• The improbable alliance that defeated Hitler
  2025-11-10 00:00:00
• Remember, remember: The legacy of the Gunpowder Plot
  2025-11-09 00:00:00
• Five partitions that shaped South Asia
  2025-11-07 00:00:00
• Crystal balls & contacting angels: predicting the future in early modern England
  2025-11-05 00:00:00
• Giuseppe Garibaldi: life of the week
  2025-11-04 00:00:00
• A day in the life of a gladiator
  2025-11-03 00:00:00
• What if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded?
  2025-11-02 00:00:00
• Bodies, bones & overflowing churchyards: a history of graveyards
  2025-10-31 00:00:00
• Myspace and MTV: how will future historians study the 21st century?
  2025-10-29 00:00:00
• Malcolm X: life of the week
  2025-10-28 00:00:00
• Ghosts, grief and the paranormal
  2025-10-27 00:00:00
• How the Gunpowder Plot unravelled
  2025-10-25 23:00:00
• Sex and sensationalism: a history of the tabloids
  2025-10-23 23:00:00
• 11th-century Europe: not just the Norman Conquest
  2025-10-21 23:00:00
• William Shakespeare: life of the week
  2025-10-20 23:00:00
• Tudor life with Ruth Goodman
  2025-10-19 23:00:00
• Who laid the fuse for the Gunpowder Plot?
  2025-10-18 23:00:00
• Reagan's plan to 'make America great again'
  2025-10-16 23:00:00
• How enslaved people fought for freedom across the Atlantic
  2025-10-14 23:00:00
• Aneurin Bevan: life of the week
  2025-10-13 23:00:00
• Bandits & blasphemers: crime in 17th century Scotland
  2025-10-12 23:00:00
• The Normans: everything you wanted to know
  2025-10-11 23:00:00
• How Julius Caesar's funeral drama fuelled the mob
  2025-10-09 23:00:00
• The dark side of Samuel Pepys
  2025-10-07 23:00:00
• Margaret Tudor: life of the week
  2025-10-06 23:00:00
• Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement
  2025-10-05 23:00:00
• Roman homes: everything you wanted to know
  2025-10-04 23:00:00
• Preview: Should historians be celebrities?
  2025-10-03 23:00:00
• Queer life in Georgian Britain
  2025-10-02 23:00:00
• Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe
  2025-09-30 23:00:00
• Robert Peel: life of the week
  2025-09-29 23:00:00
• The German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and blood
  2025-09-28 23:00:00
• Art Deco: everything you wanted to know
  2025-09-27 23:00:00
• America in Korea: a failed occupation?
  2025-09-25 23:00:00
• The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies
  2025-09-23 23:00:00
• Andrew Carnegie: life of the week
  2025-09-22 23:00:00
• Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles
  2025-09-21 23:00:00
• Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know
  2025-09-20 23:00:00
• Haiti's first and only king
  2025-09-18 23:00:00
• How the Cold War made the modern world
  2025-09-16 23:00:00
• Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week
  2025-09-15 23:00:00
• How women were erased from economic history
  2025-09-14 23:00:00
• The Phoenicians: everything you wanted to know
  2025-09-13 23:00:00
• Black women and the fight for human rights
  2025-09-11 23:00:00
• Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin
  2025-09-09 23:00:00
• El Cid: life of the week
  2025-09-08 23:00:00
• Burying the enemy: commemorating the world wars' fallen foes
  2025-09-07 23:00:00
• The Mughal empire: everything you wanted to know
  2025-09-06 23:00:00
• The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world
  2025-09-04 23:00:00
• How did the Vikings shape Russia and Ukraine?
  2025-09-02 23:00:00
• William the Conqueror: life of the week
  2025-09-01 23:00:00
• Why the Maginot Line couldn't save France in WW2
  2025-08-31 23:00:00
• Crime fiction history: everything you wanted to know
  2025-08-30 23:00:00
• How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world
  2025-08-28 23:00:00
• The spy next door: Moscow's century-long plot to infiltrate the west
  2025-08-26 23:00:00
• Edward the Confessor: life of the week
  2025-08-25 23:00:00
• Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter
  2025-08-24 23:00:00
• Nationalism: everything you wanted to know
  2025-08-23 23:00:00
• Preview: The forgers who faked a fortune
  2025-08-22 23:00:00
• From dodos to 'lost' tribes: a history of extinction
  2025-08-21 23:00:00
• Europe's last pagans
  2025-08-19 23:00:00
• VJ Day and the story of women's football: history behind the headlines
  2025-08-18 23:00:00
• The tangled legacies of two Americas
  2025-08-17 23:00:00
• The Paris Commune: everything you wanted to know
  2025-08-16 23:00:00
• VJ Day: why don't we talk about WW2 in Asia?
  2025-08-14 23:00:00
• Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy
  2025-08-12 23:00:00
• Mary of Modena: life of the week
  2025-08-11 23:00:00
• Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World
  2025-08-10 23:00:00
• Frontier life: everything you wanted to know
  2025-08-09 23:00:00
• Forgotten stories from South Asian history
  2025-08-07 23:00:00
• Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?
  2025-08-05 23:00:00
• JMW Turner: life of the week
  2025-08-04 23:00:00
• Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb
  2025-08-03 23:00:00
• WW2 evacuees: everything you wanted to know
  2025-08-02 23:00:00
• Queen Victoria's secret love affair
  2025-07-31 23:00:00
• The 300-year battle over free speech
  2025-07-29 23:00:00
• Erik the Red: life of the week
  2025-07-28 23:00:00
• Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age
  2025-07-27 23:00:00
• The Minoans: everything you wanted to know
  2025-07-26 23:00:00
• Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome
  2025-07-24 23:00:00
• Iron Mountain: the conspiracy that duped America
  2025-07-22 23:00:00
• Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines
  2025-07-21 23:00:00
• Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths
  2025-07-20 23:00:00
• Beer history: everything you wanted to know
  2025-07-19 23:00:00
• Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future
  2025-07-17 23:00:00
• King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war
  2025-07-15 23:00:00
• The Mitford sisters | 2 : life of the week
  2025-07-14 23:00:00
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