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.

Thomas Williams on the HistoryExtra podcast

Ghosts of Viking London

British author, historian, reviewer and columnist Ben Macintyre

Second World War

Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history

Prisoners of War from the Allied forces eating food after being liberated from a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Taiwan (Formosa), 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Prisoners of the Japanese

Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex (later Harold II of England), on horseback, holding a hawk. From the Bayeux Tapestry (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval rebellions

A suffragette march

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

Barry Cunliffe

General ancient history

Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe

Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?

Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

Simon Schama on the Romantics

Isabel Wilkerson. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America

King Arthur and a hand holding the sword Excalibur.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the legends of King Arthur, but were afraid to ask

Anita Anand (Image by Sukhi Dhanda).

Exclusive podcast Anita Anand on an orphan radicalised by the Amritsar massacre

Police and railwaymen assist some of the 800 evacuee children as they leave Ealing Broadway station, London, for the country on 1st September 1939 (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain goes to war

Ernest Bevin

Second World War

Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior

A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

The uncommon lives of common sailors

Isabella of France welcomed by her brother Charles IV to Paris. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hundred Years’ War, but were afraid to ask