World History Podcast

HistoryExtra podcast episodes are released every week, featuring interviews with notable historians on topics spanning ancient history through to recent British to American events. Episodes feature history stories and perspectives on everything from crusading knights to Tudor monarchs and the D-Day landings.

Historian Janina Ramirez

Exclusive podcast Janina Ramirez on extraordinary medieval women

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Documents that changed the world

Fasil Ghebbi, a 17th-century fortress city in Gondar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Peter Frankopan on global history in 2020

Brothers in arms Louis IX on his way to the Seventh Crusade, 1248. The French king kept his three brothers onside – preventing any potential family infighting – by providing them with huge lordships. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Medieval dynasties: how to stay on the throne

Tholos of Delphi in Greece. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Everything you ever wanted to know about ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask

Historian Lauren Johnson

Exclusive podcast Lauren Johnson on the life and death of Henry VI

The princes in the Tower

The Princes in the Tower: history’s greatest mysteries

Stonehenge

General ancient history

History’s greatest mysteries Stonehenge

A replica of Jesus' tomb. (Photo by Alamy)

General ancient history

History’s greatest mysteries The fate of Jesus's body

A c1590 map of English settlers landing at Roanoke Island. (Photo by Alamy)

History’s greatest mysteries The lost colony of Roanoke Island

The Voynich Manuscript is written in a unique alphabet that has thus far defeated some of the world’s greatest codebreakers. (Photo by Alamy)

History’s greatest mysteries The Voynich Manuscript

Historian Nicola Tallis

Exclusive podcast Nicola Tallis on the life of Margaret Beaufort

A rare jewelled late Medieval cluster brooch,

Unburied treasures

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

African American abolitionists in Britain

A stone believed to have magical properties, including the ability to summon rain, from Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Getty Images)

A history of magic