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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Josephine Baker: life of the week
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Women who ruled over Africa
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The Taiping Rebellion: everything you wanted to know
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How to choose a pope
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VE Day: a people's history
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Nikola Tesla: life of the week
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What caused the Irish Famine?
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The unification of Italy: everything you wanted to know
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Public vs private: history behind closed doors
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The rise of James VI & I: when Britain went global
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Papal elections and tariff troubles: history behind the headlines
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How the English took Manhattan
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Troubadours: everything you wanted to know
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The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry
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The great siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs the Ottoman empire
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Joanna Plantagenet: life of the week
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Suleyman the Magnificent's bid for world domination
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The Etruscans: everything you wanted to know
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Lexington and Concord: 250 years on
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The botanists of besieged Leningrad
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The Brothers Grimm: life of the week
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Could the US have won the Vietnam war?
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The Teutonic Order: everything you wanted to know
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The women's orchestra of Auschwitz
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JFK: the man behind the myths
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Fulvia: life of the week
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Simon Schama on the Holocaust
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The 'Scramble for Africa': everything you wanted to know
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A Nazi in Chile: did an SS commander work for Pinochet?
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Tariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare
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Funding cuts and culture wars: history behind the headlines
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Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
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The Belle Époque: everything you wanted to know
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Body in the basement: Dr Crippen and the 'crime of the century'
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The Philadelphia gun-runners who supplied the IRA
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Thomas Becket: life of week
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Why Africa's history is more than just the slave trade
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The Great Stink: everything you wanted to know
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Handel's Messiah: the scandalous birth of a classical masterpiece
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Women killers of the early modern era
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Rosa Luxemburg: life of the week
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Women's hidden role in religious reformation
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The history of British homes: everything you wanted to know
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Wolfmen and amazons: why did the Greeks and Romans demonise their neighbours?
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Reform and rebellion in the reign of Henry III
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Emily Hobhouse: life of the week
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Cheese-rolling, horse skulls & morris dancers: Britain's strange folk customs
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Roman medicine: everything you wanted to know
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What's the state of women's history in 2025?
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Medieval murder mystery: who killed King James III?
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