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.

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

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

Podcast Website large Gill Bennett

The Zinoviev Letter conspiracy

Historian Greg Jenner

Making jokes about Romans

Professor Dame Janet L Nelson

Charlemagne: medieval empire builder

Young people celebrate outside the boarded-up Stonewall Inn after riots over the weekend of June 27, 1969. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)

Stonewall and the fight for gay rights

Kendrick Oliver explores the space race that led to the 1969 moon landing and considers the legacy of the momentous events of July 1969. (Credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)

The race to the moon

An Indian cricket team in imperial Britain. (Photo by Elliott & Fry/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

An Indian cricket team in imperial Britain

Clash between the English Temeraire and the French Redoutable ships during the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

The battle of Trafalgar