World History Podcast

Our HistoryExtra 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.

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Puritans and the Mayflower

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The Auschwitz volunteer

Deer hunt, 15th century, workshop of the Bedford Breviary. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval myths

The Grey concrete blocks of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Second World War

Confronting a dark past

B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

From Allies to enemies

Historian and broadcaster David Reynolds. (Photo by Ian Farrell)

The long history of Brexit

Fresco by Memmo di Filippuccio, Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano/Tuscany (Photo by Alamy)

The filthy Middle Ages?

Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton, Background by Dreamstime)

A curious history of Christmas

(Illustration by Glen McBeth)

2019 Christmas history quiz

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2019 round-up: we choose our top 12 HistoryExtra podcasts of the year

Charles Emmerson (Photo by James Hill NYT Moscow)

The birth of the modern world

Detail of the processional frieze Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

Politics, Roman style

Eleanor of Aquitaine's tomb in Fontevraud Abbey, Loire, France (Photo by Alamy)

Eleanor of Aquitaine: myth and reality

German submarine on mission in the Atlantic ocean, 1942/1943 (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

World War Two’s secret heroes

Three elderly men on a bench in London's Southall, circa 1980. (Photo by Getty Images)

Asians in 1980s Britain