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.

Huge sun setting over power lines and palm trees in California. (Photo by Getty Images)

California’s century of change

The bronze equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce looks out over the site of the Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, where the Scottish fought for their independence from the English in 1314. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask

Carved Pictish Stone in the Meigle Museum east of Blairgowrie, Scotland. (Photo by Alamy)

General ancient history

The Picts

A 13th-century illumination showing the coronation of Foulques and Melisende. (Photo by Alamy)

Women and the crusades

Podcast Keith Lowe Web large

Second World War

World War Two: the challenge of commemoration

Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak, February 1920. (Photo by Getty Images)

A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19

The Baillie Family c1784, by Thomas Gainsborough

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Georgians, but were afraid to ask

Queen Emma and her sons

Exclusive podcast William and Cnut: a tale of two conquerors

Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester

Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy

US Soldiers march North Koreans along a dirt road during the Korean War, 1950–53 (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the Korean War

Two nannies stop for a chat while walking their charges in a London park, March 1916 (Photo by Getty Images)

Working mothers

A reenactment of the Battle of Nantwich (1644) by members of the Sealed Knot. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about British battlefields, but were afraid to ask

Two lovers rest after a hunt, Codex Manesse

Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage

Historian, author and RAF veteran John Nichol. (Photo by John Nichol)

Second World War

The Lancaster

Historian Nicola Tallis

Exclusive podcast Nicola Tallis on the life of Margaret Beaufort