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.

Verena Krebs reveals what diplomatic missions sent by the Christian leaders of Ethiopia can tell us about the kingdom’s place in the medieval world

Medieval Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions

Jane Rogoyska explains how more than 20,000 Polish prisoners-of-war were murdered on Stalin’s orders in 1940, and explores the decades-long coverup that followed. (Image by Getty Images)

Second World War

Uncovering the truth about WW2’s Katyn massacre

Dr Katrina Moseley explores the surprising story of slimming clubs, touching on female friendship, entrepreneurialism and feminist fury. (Image by Getty Images)

The changing shape of slimming clubs

Britain's Greatest Prime Minister Podcast Series From HistoryExtra

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee

Serhii Plokhy discusses the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and reveals just how close the world came to nuclear disaster. (Image by Getty Images)

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?

Historian Timothy Hickman answers listener questions about the ban on booze in 1920s America, from speakeasies and moonshine to Al Capone’s shady dealings. (Image by Getty Images)

Prohibition: everything you wanted to know

Dr Ben Raffield explains how in the ninth and tenth centuries, Scandinavian laws and customs prevailed across a swathe of what’s now northern and eastern England. (Image by Getty Images)

The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England?

Harriet Atkinson takes us back to 1951’s Festival of Britain, a celebration of a nation rising from the ashes of war. (Image by Getty Images)

Britain’s great postwar party

The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was a key moment in the reign of King Richard II. New research is revealing just how well-organised an operation it was. (Image by Getty Images)

The Peasants’ Revolt: who were the rebels of 1381?

Britain's Greatest Prime Minister Podcast Series From HistoryExtra

Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 2: Stanley Baldwin

Women fighters of the Jewish resistance with Judy Batalion

Second World War

Women fighters of the Jewish resistance

Life in the workhouse podcast with Peter Higginbotham

Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know

Linda Colley explores how written constitutions, together with warfare, forged the modern world. (Image by Getty Images)

How constitutions changed the world

Nathen Amin discusses the plots and conspiracies that threatened to unseat Henry VII from his throne. (Illustration by Eleanor Taylor)

The pretenders who threatened Henry VII’s crown

Joanna Bourke explores what ideas about ‘evil women’ can tell us about societal values through history. (Image by Getty Images)

Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?