World History Podcast

Our History Extra podcast comes out twice a week, featuring interviews with notable historians talking about topics spanning ancient history through recent British to American events. Episodes feature history stories and perspectives on everything from crusading knights to Tudor monarchs and the D-Day landings.

Max Hastings by Fran Monks

Second World War

Max Hastings on the Dambusters

Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.

Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

Tom Holland by Helen Atkinson

Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy

Dan Jones by Steve Sayers and Helen Castor

The Crusades, with Dan Jones

Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

Brendan Simms photographed by Ian Farrell

Second World War

Hitler’s war with Anglo-America

South Vietnam 1967: Battle weary U.S. soldiers pause for a moment's rest after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

War trauma

Decontamination of the Chernobyl NPP territory. (Photo by Alamy)

Chernobyl: the story of a tragedy

Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders. (Photo by Alamy)

The real Peaky Blinders

Babita Sharma

The corner shop revolution

Peterloo Massacre podcast.

Peterloo: the story of a massacre

Stonehenge

General prehistory

Britain’s key archaeological discoveries

Gordon Brown talks to the History Extra podcast about Andrew Carnegie. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

Gordon Brown on Andrew Carnegie

Criminal register photographs at Wormwood Scrubs prison, around 1890. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Prisoner dilemmas

Emma Dabiri. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Why black hair matters