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)
Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths
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Beer history: everything you wanted to know
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Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future
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King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war
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The Mitford sisters | 2 : life of the week
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Slavery on the medieval Silk Road
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The history of women's football: everything you wanted to know
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Live Aid: pop's Big Bang moment
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Exploring the medieval world with Marco Polo
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The Mitford Sisters | 1 : life of the week
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Beyond the trenches: a new take on WW1
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Roman warfare: everything you wanted to know
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Preview: Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?
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The People's Princess: why Diana captivated the world
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Secrets of medieval manuscripts
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Owain Glyndŵr: life of the week
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Magic beakers & Roman helmets: artefacts that shaped history
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SOE: everything you wanted to know
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Sisi & Eugénie: the empresses who redefined royalty
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Ghosts, vampires & Abba holograms: an uncanny history of London
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International security & rough sleeping: history behind the headlines
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Make Mercia Great Again
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The Merovingians: everything you wanted to know
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How the Allies won WW2
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Ancient tips for health and happiness
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Thomas Aquinas: life of the week
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Barmier than Bond: Ian Fleming's extraordinary wartime escapades
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Fatherhood: a short history
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CIA book smugglers of the Cold War
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The Renaissance: not such a golden age?
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Archimedes: life of the week
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The Third Reich's first genocide
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English folklore: everything you wanted to know
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What happened in Shakespeare's "lost years"?
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Plague, famine and chivalry: a human history of the 14th century
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WW2 legacies and Magna Carta: history behind the headlines
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Drink, dance, death: wine in ancient Egypt
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The Scottish Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know
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Deadly skies: the WW2 mission to fly over the Himalayas
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Royal sisters: the tragic lives of Queen Victoria's granddaughters
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Calamity Jane: life of the week
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Spiritual showmen: the 1920s occult
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Cheese history: everything you wanted to know
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Taking sides: how the Civil War turned friends into enemies
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Were Roman women done dirty by modern translations?
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Otto von Bismarck: life of the week
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The Einstein murders
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The Beaker People: everything you wanted to know
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Gods, demons, witches and exorcists: inside an ancient Assyrian library
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Peaks, perils, and pioneers: the deadly history of mountaineering
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