HistoryExtra 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.

David M Kennedy answers listener questions about the economic crash that devastated 1930s America. (Image by Getty Images)

The Great Depression: everything you wanted to know

Robert Sackville-West describes attempts to identify the bodies of the dead after the devastating battles of the First World War. (Image by Getty Images)

First World War

Searching for WW1’s fallen soldiers

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Christmas feasts with Annie Gray Episode 4: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity

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Christmas feasts with Annie Gray Episode 3: Victorian merrymaking

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Christmas feasts with Annie Gray Episode 2: Georgian elegance

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Christmas feasts with Annie Gray Episode 1: Medieval & Tudor revelry

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Second World War

Pearl Harbor Episode 1

James Fox speaks about the myriad meanings of colour through human history. (Image by Getty Images)

Colour: a human history

George Makari examines the history of xenophobia, and the surprising ways in which the term has evolved since the 19th century. (Image by Getty Images)

Stranger danger? Xenophobia’s unexpected history

Christine Kinealy answers listener questions on the devastating famine that struck Ireland in the mid-19th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Irish famine: everything you wanted to know

Islam Issa reveals how terrorists have twisted Shakespeare’s life and work to suit their own ends over the centuries. (Image by Getty Images)

How Shakespeare inspired terrorists

Roderick Beaton explores 4,000 years of Greek history, on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

How the Greeks changed the world

Peter Stanford charts the story of Christianity in Britain and Ireland through historic religious buildings

What can churches tell us?

From the courtesans of Edo Japan to the mollyhouses of Regency London, Kate Lister discusses the long and varied history of sex work. (Image by Getty Images)

Sex work: a brief history

Professor Marc David Baer discusses the Ottoman empire and its overlooked place in the “Age of Discovery”. (Image by Getty Images)

The Ottoman “Age of Discovery”