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.

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

Asians in 1980s Britain

Edwardian hat pin head found on the Thames shore. (Photo by Bloomsbury)

Secrets of the river

Lord Louis Mountbatten with his fiancee Edwina Ashley in 1922. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Mountbattens: success and scandal

A waitress working behind the counter at the first ever Lyons tea shop to be opened in London, 1953

The teashop empire

Nicola Tallis photographed by David Hampton in October 2019

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

Chinese propaganda poster, c1969. (Photo by Getty images)

Maoism

Statue of Liberty. (Photo by Dreamstime)

A history of the United States

(Image by Netflix)

The King: Henry V on film

The American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown is being bombed in the Battle of Midway, June 1942. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

Midway: the Pacific War on screen

The famous Checkpoint Charlie crossing point between East and West Berlin, June 1968 (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall

Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh presented by Viking Cruises opens at the Saatchi Gallery on 2 November. Tickets on-sale now, please visit: www.tutankhamun-london.com

Treasures of Tutankhamun

A Russian battery at the siege of the Austrian-Hungarian fortress of Przemysl, 1 Oct 1914. (Photo by Hulton Archive-Getty Images)

First World War

The Fortress: An epic battle of World War I

Britons. Join Your Country's Army! (Photo by Alfred Leete/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

First World War

The death of Kitchener: a World War One mystery

Margaret Thatcher meets personnel during her visit to the Falkland Islands. (Photo by Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

Britain in the early 80s

Richard III, anonymous painting around 1500. (Photo by Alamy)

The house of York