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.

The rise of Hitler. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The rise of Hitler

Michael Wood at BBC History Magazine's History Weekend in Chester (Photo byVictoria Tetley / VJT Photography)

Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph

The ruins of Dresden after the bombing by Allied forces in early 1945. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The bombing of Dresden

Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

Secrets of war leadership

Confronting evils.

Confronting evils

Portrait of Marie-Antoinette with the rose, 1783, by Vigée-Le Brun. (Photo by Alamy)

Marie Antoinette

Historian Mary Beard at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on the nude in western art

The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

The woman who gave birth to rabbits

Indian soldiers during WWI

First World War

Indians in the trenches

Historian Claire Wright (Photo by Susan Papazian)

Fighting for the vote

Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

Second World War

The Holocaust orphans

Historian Sophie Ambler.

Simon de Montfort’s medieval revolution

West Indian immigrants arrive at Waterloo Station, 15 October 1961. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

The Windrush generation

Historian Stephen Tomkins (Photo by Fran Monks)

Puritans and the Mayflower

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

Second World War

The Auschwitz volunteer