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.

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”

Pod Michael Brown WL

Anglo-Scottish border wars: everything you wanted to know

Pod Zoe Playdon WL

A secret trial that transformed transgender rights

Pod Keith Lowe WL

Second World War

How to tell the story of WW2

Pod Jim Downs WL

How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology

Pod Jane Ridley WL

George V: not so dull after all

Pod Rob Gallagher WL

The man who made King Alfred great

Michael Goodman tackles listener questions and popular search queries on the history of spying and intelligence. (Image by Getty Images)

Espionage history: everything you wanted to know