History Extra podcast
The History Extra podcast brings you gripping stories from the past and fascinating historical conversations with the world's leading historical experts. Produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine, History Extra is a free history podcast, with episodes released six times a week. Subscribe now for the real stories behind your favourite films, TV shows and period dramas, as well as compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past. We delve into global history stories spanning the ancient world right up to the modern day. You’ll hear deep dives into the lives of famous historical figures like Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn and Winston Churchill, and explorations of intriguing events from the past, such as the Salem witch trials, the battle of Waterloo and D-Day. Expect fresh takes on history, helping you get to grips with the latest research, as we explore everything from ancient Roman archaeology and Viking mythology to Renaissance royals and Tudor kings and queens. Our episodes touch on a wide range of historical eras – from the Normans and Saxons to the Stuarts, Victorians and the Regency period. We cover the most popular historical subjects, from the medieval world to the Second World War, but you’ll also hear conversations on lesser-known parts of our past, including black history and women’s history. Looking at the history behind today’s headlines, we consider the forces that have shaped today’s world, from the imposing empires that dominated continents, to the revolutions that brought them crashing down. We also examine the impact of conflict across the centuries, from the crusades of the Middle Ages and the battles of the ancient Egyptians to World War One, World War Two and the Cold War. Plus, we uncover the real history behind myths, legends and conspiracy theories, from the medieval murder mystery of the Princes in the Tower, to the assassination of JFK. Featuring interviews with notable historians including Mary Beard, Tracy Borman, James Holland and Dan Jones, we cover a range of social, political and military history, with the aim to start conversations about some of the most fascinating areas of the past. Unlock full access to HistoryExtra.com for 6 months for just 99p https://www.historyextra.com/join/
Ancient Egyptian warfare: everything you wanted to know
The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII
The invisible tracks that have shaped the world
Should we stop talking about the crusades?
Æthelred the Unready: life of the week
The golden age of the country house
Victorian schools: everything you wanted to know
Gladiators: everything you wanted to know
Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal
Medieval make do and mend
Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man
Joseph McCarthy: life of the week
Gladiator tales
The Brontës: everything you wanted to know
Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry V: hero
How Stalin won WW2
The Venerable Bede: life of the week
Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots
The Blitz: everything you wanted to know
The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
Telling the story of modern Jerusalem
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry IV: usurper
Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country
Florence Nightingale: life of the week
Introducing History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories
Cocaine: a Victorian sensation
Medieval science: everything you wanted to know
Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant
Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?
History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature
Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil
The Korean War: everything you wanted to know
Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire
1066: the battle for England | 4. the long and violent Norman Conquest
Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'
John Milton: life of the week
Why did people kill for Hitler?
The Cathars: everything you wanted to know
Black British History: everything you wanted to know
Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles
The race to identify all living creatures
King John: life of the week
Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world
Tea history: everything you wanted to know
Victorian women detectives
1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne
A hidden history of black civil rights
Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week
How did the US get so many guns?
Communism: everything you wanted to know
Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy
1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons
Churchill's prewar crisis meetings
Henry VII: life of the week
Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future
The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know
Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years
Ancient Egypt | 5. a lost world?
Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa
Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines
How ancient India transformed the world
The Hittites: everything you wanted to know
The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London
Ancient Egypt | 4. religion and death
Native Americans: a history of power and survival
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: life of the week
The 1943 battle of Kursk – and its present-day echoes
Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know
Medieval documents in danger
Ancient Egypt | 3. culture
Our 10,000-year quest for equality
Michelangelo: life of the week
The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?
Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know
The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees
Ancient Egypt | 2. everyday life
False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices
Emperor Vespasian: life of the week
An audacious escape from slavery
The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know
Crusader criminals: how the Holy Land became a hotbed of lawlessness
Ancient Egypt | 1. civilisation
Ancient Egypt: the big questions | Trailer
Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps
The far right in Britain: history behind the headlines
Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk
The history of migration: everything you wanted to know
Eighteen-year-olds who changed history
Toilets through time | 4. Victorian lavatories
How games changed history
George Orwell: life of the week
Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history
Tartan: everything you wanted to know
Olympic History: everything you wanted to know
Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces
Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes
Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author
Anne Frank: life of the week
Stealing the Mona Lisa
The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know
Dismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort
Toilets through time | 2. Medieval privies
Has imperial history become too politicised?
Francis Drake: life of the week
Our long obsession with the end of the world
The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know
Black Death: everything you wanted to know
The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island
Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines
Assassinations that shaped US history
Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines
Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen
The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know
1217: the year that (almost) changed English history
Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?
Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain
Catherine de' Medici: life of the week
The suffragettes who fell in love
Servants: everything you wanted to know
Anxieties of the Edwardian age
Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house
How the Plantagenets forged the English state
Justinian: life of the week
The woman who saved the children
Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know
How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart
Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse
The surprising lives of ancient women
Boudica: life of the week
How Stalin ran rings round the west
British general elections: everything you wanted to know
Medieval keep fit
Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement
A 21st-century Holocaust trial
Catherine Parr: life of the week
Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft
Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know
Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time
Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait
Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?
Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines
Has WW2 become a national religion?
Beowulf: everything you wanted to know
Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms
Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn
Deeds not words | Trailer
War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2
Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week
Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper
The pilgrim fathers: everything you wanted to know
Beastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century
D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation?
D-Day: Land
A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life
Plato: life of the week
Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages
Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know
Julian: the Roman emperor who (almost) changed the world
D-Day: Sea
A Soviet road trip through 1930s America
Galileo: life of the week
What was life like as a peasant?
The history of museums: everything you wanted to know
Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance
D-Day: Air
Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies
Maria Theresa: life of the week
Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis
The Terror: everything you wanted to know
The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip
WW2's greatest battles | 5. Guadalcanal
A surprising history of sex between men
History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries
Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens
Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?
WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein
Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen
Kublai Khan: life of the week
Inside a Jim Crow asylum
The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know
Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion
WW2's greatest battles | 3. Battle of the Atlantic
Smash hits: 17th-century style
Benjamin Franklin: life of the week
OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world
Greg Jenner and Campbell Price delve into the curious and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian mummification
The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan?
WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad
Aztec myths
David Lloyd George: life of the week
Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century
Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know
An African perspective on the history of Africa
WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain
WW2's greatest battles | Trailer
How Kissinger transformed the Cold War
Lord Byron: life of the week
Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats
Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know
Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder
Clotilda: the last slave ship to America
History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland
Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?
The British empire's divisive legacy
Saladin: life of the week
Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know
Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession
Tiger Tamer | 6. battling against Bovril
How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?
Joan of Arc: life of the week
Leftovers: how our ancestors battled food waste
WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know
Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot
Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows
Will the real Jesus please stand up?
Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week
An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain
The Capetians: everything you wanted to know
Lothar II vs Theutberga: a marriage scandal that shook the ninth century
Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian
A political earthquake: Britain's first Labour government
James VI and I: life of the week
From Russia to Texas: the search for a Jewish homeland
British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know
The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia
Tiger Tamer | 3. would you let a tiger lick your face?
Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama
History Behind the Headlines: ageing politicians & new names for the London Overground
The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest
Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know
Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones
Tiger Tamer | 2. sail, steam & stormy seas
The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit
Rudyard Kipling: life of the week
Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors
Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know
Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights
The Chinese migrants chasing an American dream
Tiger Tamer | 1. “the life of a dozen men”
The Tiger Tamer who went to sea | Trailer
The Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany
Christopher Columbus: life of the week
Slavic Myths: vampires werewolves – and cabbages
The Roman army: everything you wanted to know
Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera
Victorian death rituals
Conspiracy | 5. Legends of the Knights Templar
Happily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen's era
History Behind the Headlines: the Post Office, US elections and Alexander the Great
Drag: a British history
Medieval Ireland: everything you wanted to know
Peking to Paris: the world’s first great motor race
Conspiracy | 4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Love: a weird & wonderful history
Life of the week: the Duke of Wellington
Ploughman's for the people: a culinary history of Britain
Chivalry: everything you wanted to know
Alexandria: the first modern city
Conspiracy | 3. Who killed JFK?
Masters of the Air: the real history behind the new show.
Life of the week: Spartacus
The West's enduring fascination with Asia
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know
Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'
Conspiracy | 2. Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?
Ireland's tangled relationship with empire
Life of the Week: Harold Godwinson (Harold II)
Britain's long love affair with sport
The Silk Road: everything you wanted to know
The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity
Conspiracy | 1. Was Elizabeth I a man?
Conspiracy | Series 2 Trailer
From the Mongols to the Huns: the nomads who dominated Eurasia
Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass
The hidden history of women in intelligence
The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know
'Madness' and the supernatural
Boston Tea Party | 5. A complex legacy
Why were the Romantics obsessed with Mount Vesuvius?
Life of the Week: Stalin
James Longstreet: Confederate Judas
Medieval popes: everything you wanted to know
A history of song: from Schumann to Sting
Boston Tea Party | 4. The crackdown
Aztec warfare
History Behind the Headlines: Elections, ‘panda diplomacy’ and the word of the year
How spies shaped the modern world
The Habsburgs: everything you wanted to know
The medieval Welsh Marches: identity on the frontier
Boston Tea Party | 3. The destruction of the tea
Sherlock Holmes: the real history that inspired the detective stories
Life of the week: Queen Victoria
Merry Christmas from the HistoryExtra podcast
Druids: everything you wanted to know
Bannockburn: Robert the Bruce’s greatest victory
Boston Tea Party | 2. The Sons of Liberty
Amazing Grace: a story of salvation and slavery
Life of the week: Amelia Earhart
Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander
1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know
Caesar | 1. Beware the Ides of March
Caesar | 5. The dogs of war
Caesar | 6. The evil that men do
Caesar | 2. Was this ambition?
Caesar | 4. Honourable men
Caesar | 3. Master of his fate
Netflix's The Crown: history and storytelling
Boston Tea Party | 1. Tea and taxes
Boston Tea Party: Igniting a revolution | Trailer
Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them
Life of the Week: Mansa Musa
Introducing Life of the Week
Caesar: Death of a Dictator | Trailer
Victoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history
The American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know
Books and war: from James Bond to leaflet bombing
Shakespeare: Past Master | 4. Hamlet
Medieval manners: social etiquette in the Middle Ages
Marshal Pétain: Vichy France in the dock
1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know
The dangerous road to the Bastille
Shakespeare: Past Master | 3. Julius Caesar
Du Fu: China's greatest poet
Cities that turbocharged art history
Astronomy history: everything you wanted to know
The dark side of Dickens
Shakespeare: Past Master | 2. Romeo and Juliet
Thanksgiving: everything you wanted to know
The dangers of medieval travel
The Princes in the Tower: has the mystery been solved?
The Pre-Raphaelites: everything you wanted to know
Resistance in the Second World War
Shakespeare: Past Master | 1. Henry V
Shakespeare Trailer
George Orwell’s forgotten wife
Magic books: a global history
Norse myths: everything you wanted to know
Medieval Stalingrad: The siege of Calais
The First Crusade | 5. The end or the beginning?
The Munich Putsch: Hitler’s bungled revolution
Women’s history: from 1066 to Margaret Thatcher
Ancient Egyptian pyramids: everything you wanted to know
Scotland’s last witch
The First Crusade | 4. Besieged
Fighting racism in postwar Britain
Horror films: a chilling cultural history
The history of Jamaica: everything you wanted to know
Killers of the Flower Moon: The real history
The First Crusade | 3. Crossing into the unknown
Disease killers: the black nurses who conquered TB
Who moulded Winston Churchill?
The Second Barons’ War: everything you wanted to know
Renaissance eugenics
The First Crusade | 2. On the road
1960s Britain: smashing the status quo?
Life of the week Trailer
Disney at 100
Weimar Germany: everything you wanted to know
Slave traders: the men who built a brutal empire
The First Crusade | 1. The call to arms
The First Crusade Trailer
Re-examining women in the Roman empire
History Behind the Headlines Trailer
Is black history still being overlooked?
Cat history: everything you wanted to know
The Huxleys: how one family shaped our view of nature
Great Reputations: Gandhi
The Cultural Revolution: a Chinese catastrophe
The brutal WW2 battle for Italy
David Mitchell on a new history of England’s monarchy
Archaeology’s golden age: everything you wanted to know
One day in the British empire
Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst
Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting
How to live like a Roman emperor
How has fear shaped history?
The Battle of Britain: everything you wanted to know
Rocket women: America’s first female astronauts
Great Reputations: Napoleon
Chaos & violence in country houses
The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South
Scandals that shocked Georgian Britain
British parliament: everything you wanted to know
When poison pen letters caused chaos
Great Reputations: Cleopatra
Secrets of the Anglo-Saxon bone chests
Jane Austen’s passion for fashion
The brain behind the Dambusters raid
Spanish flu: everything you wanted to know
Women who shaped the Roman empire
Great Reputations: Oliver Cromwell
The secret club for radical New York women
Margaret Cavendish: scandalous 17th-century writer
The triumph of Joan of Arc
Rome v Carthage: everything you wanted to know
Tokyo’s devastating 1923 earthquake
US Civil Rights: legacy
On the trail of a Nazi war criminal
How did empire shape modern Britain?
Why did medieval Europe become Christian?
The Mongols: everything you wanted to know
The lost world of Dickens’ London
US Civil Rights: Malcolm X’s assassination
The miners’ strike: a view from the ground
California’s hidden history of slavery
Letters from medieval England
New Zealand: everything you wanted to know
Indian experiences in WW2
US Civil Rights: the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Learning disabilities: an overlooked history
Secrets of ancient Chinese tombs
How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims
Ancient Egyptian religion: everything you wanted to know
Introducing HistoryExtra Long Reads
Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?
US Civil Rights: the March on Washington
Roger Mortimer: medieval rebel
Emotional revolution in postwar Britain
Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight
British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know
Surviving Hitler and Stalin
US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
Renaissance beauty regimes
AI: An ancient nightmare?
A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard
The NHS: everything you wanted to know
Life in a WW2 tank regiment
US Civil Rights: Fighting for freedom
US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till
A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders
RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2
UFO sightings: an otherworldly history
Dog history: everything you wanted to know
History's greatest cities | Season 2 Trailer
Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”
How Barbie changed the world
Britain’s love affair with Edward VII
The WAAF: the many behind the few
Eastern Europe: a personal journey through the region’s past
Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know
Blindness: a cultural history
Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees
How did medieval people tell the time?
Lost civilisations of the Mediterranean
1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know
Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
Big questions of the Crimean War: into the Valley of Death
Why Britain fell in love with the NHS
From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
Life on Britain’s WW1 home front
The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know
How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy
Big questions of the Crimean War: the build up
The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life
How germs shaped human history
Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany
The Luddites: everything you wanted to know
Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
Cornwall: a brief history
Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
The myth and memory of Waterloo
Coffee history: everything you wanted to know
Caesar: Death of a Dictator Trailer
Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes
Living through the Troubles
What can we learn from the fall of Rome?
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the overlooked bonds between mother & daughter
Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2
Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know
Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century
Historical echoes of the Ukraine war
Plato: the world’s greatest philosopher?
How women helped sustain the slave trade
The fall and rise of Henry III
The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
Plot or paranoia? The Amboyna conspiracy trial
Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome
Amazing archaeological discoveries that trounce Indiana Jones
Living the life of luxury with the Persians & Greeks
Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world
Mountaineering on Everest: everything you want to know
The History Extra podcast – tell us what you think
Is history too politicised?
Six wives | 6. Katherine Parr
Battling the British empire
William the Conqueror’s invasion plans
Did Black Death trigger the rise of Europe?
Chartism: everything you wanted to know
Three young queens: the unexpected bonds between Renaissance royals
Six wives | 5. Catherine Howard
Ramesses II: Egypt’s greatest pharaoh?
Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know
Everyday life in East Germany
Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves
Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe
Keeping time: a watchmaker’s history
Native Americans: a new history
Goths: everything you wanted to know
How (and how not) to stage a coronation
Six wives | 3. Jane Seymour
Queen Charlotte: real history behind the new Bridgerton series
Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries
WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict
Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know
How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain
Six wives | 2. Anne Boleyn
The Waco siege: an American tragedy
Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager
WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust
Crusader states: everything you wanted to know
How women were excluded from sport – and fought back
Six wives | 1. Catherine of Aragon
Æthelflæd: ‘Mother of the English’
Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science
WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’
Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know
‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?
The KGB’s secret war on the west
Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s
What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age
WW2 the big questions: the early years of the conflict
Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
Nuclear apocalypse in Britain
Wild urban spaces: a history
Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire
What did the Tudors wear?
WW2 the big questions: the build up
British castles: everything you wanted to know
The mindset behind the Holocaust
Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain
The man who almost discovered the double helix
Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life
George VI’s Nazi dilemma
The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know
Six Wives Trailer
Patriarchy’s long roots
Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”
Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer
Science & religion: a story of war or harmony?
The North: from Bede to Lowry
Paganism: everything you wanted to know
Eat for victory: WW2’s “British Restaurants”
Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York
Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession
Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat
Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters
Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know
Treasure, heritage & returning artefacts
Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society
Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community
The Iraq War, 20 years on
Volcanoes & nuclear armageddon: humanity’s long relationship with nature
Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India
Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
History’s greatest cities: Prague Trailer
Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile
The Tudor who hiked North America
Dick Whittington: from medieval merchant to panto hero
Pirate flags & wedding gowns: a patchwork of a Victorian life
Oscar Wilde on trial
Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know
History's greatest cities | Berlin
The book that transformed medieval England
Why the Middle Ages matter
The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis
Breastfeeding: a cultural history
Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor
Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know
Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?
From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath
Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king
Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter
Marie Antoinette in her own words
The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War
Why did the Ottoman empire implode?
Was Shakespeare a snob?
Tudors in revolt: the Western Rising of 1549
Female spies who forged the CIA
Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know
A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’
Wild places & wild people: a short history of common land
The forgotten years that forged Wales
How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer
Tattoos: a 5,000 year history
Railway history: everything you wanted to know
Forgotten histories of the Holocaust
An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies
A journey along the Iron Curtain
Fleeing revolution: Russians exiles in Paris
The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know
How FDR transformed the US presidency
Indigenous American travellers in Europe
The PoWs who survived Nagasaki
Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo
Curious cures for medieval maladies
Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
Veggie Victorians
An environmental history of big business
Tools, temples & tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history
Weaponising food in the Third Reich
“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change
Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know
Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks
The floating hell of prison hulks
Refusing to fight in WW2
Power dressing: the hidden value of clothes in 19th-century America
Sabotage, cyberwar & assassination: a history of covert action
Conspiracy: the lost civilisation of Atlantis
Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?
Conspiracy: Who wrote Shakespeare?
Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?
Conspiracy: did aliens build the pyramids?
Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America
Alexander the Great’s extraordinary childhood
The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution
Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
Brits abroad: a history
Mongols vs Mamluks
The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know
How ballroom dancing gripped Britain
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Dangerous days
The hell of the Pacific War
Inside Germany’s postwar prisons
Pilgrimage, past and present
British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know
Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats
The Cuban Missile Crisis: broken ties & a secret pact
Football in the First World War
The Irish across the globe
Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know
Conspiracy Trailer
Books of the year 2022
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The rise and fall of the Sikh empire
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
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Hitler’s vengeance
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Ghosts of Viking London
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Prisoners of the Japanese
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Simon Schama on the Romantics
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Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hundred Years’ War, but were afraid to ask
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I
Edward the Confessor
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Africa’s cultural liberation
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Victory in the east
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Authors in the Boer War
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Medieval Wonder Women
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Peter Frankopan on global history in 2020
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Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
The Princes in the Tower: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Stonehenge: History’s Greatest Mysteries
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Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Survivor
Unburied treasures
African American abolitionists in Britain
A history of magic
Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval queens, but were afraid to ask
At home with the medieval aristocracy
Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate
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Museums and colonialism
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The Picts
Women and the Crusades
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William and Cnut: a tale of two conquerors
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Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage
The Lancaster
Henry III: inside the mind of a medieval king
Francis Drake: slave trader
Britain and the slave trade
Everything you ever wanted to know about the civil rights movement, but were afraid to ask
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine
The history of the Bible
A legendary pirate
The cosmopolitan Chaucer
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Indian soldiers at Dunkirk
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Cooking for Churchill
Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world
Living on the edge in Victorian Britain
Everything you ever wanted to know about the English Reformation, but were afraid to ask
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Rethinking the Renaissance
The life and legend of Florence Nightingale
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How the world made us
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Chanel and the Riviera
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Apollo 13
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The genius of Artemisia
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Written in stone
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London’s trailblazing women
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudors
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Britain in the early 80s
The House of York
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The destruction of Pompeii
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Peterloo: the story of a massacre
Britain's key archaeological discoveries
Gordon Brown on Andrew Carnegie
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Gentleman Jack
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Starkey on the Reformation
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William Marshal: the greatest knight
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Queen Victoria behind closed doors
Friends or Enemies? Anglo-French relations
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2016 Christmas history quiz
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Wolfson History Prize special
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Napoleon's formative years and great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment
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England and Scotland go to war
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English Heritage's History Live festival at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire
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Henry V and Thomas Cromwell – hero and villain
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World War Two farming and a new time saver for historians
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Britain's enemies
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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Hidden tunnels in Exeter
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Peter Englund's new book
How to escape the tower
The mourning of Queen Victoria
Voices of veterans and the debate on sugar
Second World War arctic convoys
Dambusters
Edward III and a naval battle
Misconceptions of WWII
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The East India Company and Nelson
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Greek slavery, Victorian heroism and Dan Snow on cars
Germany's defeat
The Victorian telegraph and Dan Snow on his new series
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Summer holidays and Edward VI
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