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...
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Art Deco: everything you wanted to know
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America in Korea: a failed occupation?
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The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies
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Andrew Carnegie: life of the week
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Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles
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Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know
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Haiti's first and only king
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How the Cold War made the modern world
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Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week
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How women were erased from economic history
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The Phoenicians: everything you wanted to know
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Black women and the fight for human rights
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Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin
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El Cid: life of the week
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Burying the enemy: commemorating the world wars' fallen foes
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The Mughal empire: everything you wanted to know
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The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world
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How did the Vikings shape Russia and Ukraine?
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William the Conqueror: life of the week
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Why the Maginot Line couldn't save France in WW2
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Crime fiction history: everything you wanted to know
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How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world
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The spy next door: Moscow's century-long plot to infiltrate the west
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Edward the Confessor: life of the week
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Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter
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Nationalism: everything you wanted to know
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Preview: The forgers who faked a fortune
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From dodos to 'lost' tribes: a history of extinction
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Europe's last pagans
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VJ Day and the story of women's football: history behind the headlines
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The tangled legacies of two Americas
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The Paris Commune: everything you wanted to know
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VJ Day: why don't we talk about WW2 in Asia?
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Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy
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Mary of Modena: life of the week
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Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World
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Frontier life: everything you wanted to know
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Forgotten stories from South Asian history
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Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?
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JMW Turner: life of the week
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Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb
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WW2 evacuees: everything you wanted to know
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Queen Victoria's secret love affair
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The 300-year battle over free speech
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Erik the Red: life of the week
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Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age
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The Minoans: everything you wanted to know
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Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome
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Iron Mountain: the conspiracy that duped America
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Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines
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