HistoryExtra podcast
The HistoryExtra podcast brings you gripping stories from the past and fascinating historical conversations with the world's leading historical experts.HistoryExtra 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...
Episodes (2571)
WW2's Tunisian campaign: the Stalingrad of Africa
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Empress Matilda: life of the week
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How warhorses transformed medieval England
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Did the Nazis get a fair trial?
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Forgotten female secret agents of WW2
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What causes cultures to decline and fall?
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Christopher Marlowe: life of the week
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Uprising: the Civil Wars untangled
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The Nazis’ crimes laid bare
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What does Hitler’s DNA really tell us?
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Mutilated corpses and undead mothers-in-law: vampire epidemics through history
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The problem with poo: a millennium of manure
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James Garfield: life of the week
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A new history of multicultural Britain
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What should we do with the Nazis? The road to the Nuremberg Trials
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Who stole the Tudor crown?
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The librarian who stole KGB secrets
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Nellie Bly: life of the week
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The improbable alliance that defeated Hitler
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Remember, remember: The legacy of the Gunpowder Plot
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Five partitions that shaped South Asia
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Crystal balls & contacting angels: predicting the future in early modern England
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Giuseppe Garibaldi: life of the week
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A day in the life of a gladiator
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What if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded?
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Bodies, bones & overflowing churchyards: a history of graveyards
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Myspace and MTV: how will future historians study the 21st century?
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Malcolm X: life of the week
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Ghosts, grief and the paranormal
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How the Gunpowder Plot unravelled
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Sex and sensationalism: a history of the tabloids
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11th-century Europe: not just the Norman Conquest
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William Shakespeare: life of the week
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Tudor life with Ruth Goodman
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Who laid the fuse for the Gunpowder Plot?
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Reagan's plan to 'make America great again'
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How enslaved people fought for freedom across the Atlantic
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Aneurin Bevan: life of the week
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Bandits & blasphemers: crime in 17th century Scotland
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The Normans: everything you wanted to know
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How Julius Caesar's funeral drama fuelled the mob
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The dark side of Samuel Pepys
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Margaret Tudor: life of the week
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Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement
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Roman homes: everything you wanted to know
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Preview: Should historians be celebrities?
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Queer life in Georgian Britain
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Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe
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Robert Peel: life of the week
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The German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and blood
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