Podcast

Our History Extra podcast comes out twice a week, featuring interviews with notable historians talking about topics ranging from crusading knights to Tudor monarchs and the D-Day landings.

Portrait of King Henry VI, the subject of this episode of the History Extra podcast. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Henry VI: terrible king

Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty in WWI. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

First World War

Churchill’s navy

Jack Sheppard and his accomplice Blueskin rob a home without waking the owner, circa 1720. (Photo by Alamy)

Victorian murder scandal

Rutger Bregman. (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman: historian in the news

George V meeting a hospital matron on the western front during the First World War. (Photo by Getty Images)

First World War

King George V at war

Alan Johnson talks to the History Extra podcast about schools through history. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti)

Schools through time

Bart van Es, winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2019 prize. (Photo by Alamy)

Second World War

Bart van Es on The Cut Out Girl

Catherine Hanley tells the story of Empress Matilda, whose battle for the English throne became known as ‘the anarchy’. (Photo by Jeni Nott for BBC History Magazine)

Medieval warrior queen

Julian Baggini and Justin Champion. (Photo by Fran Monks)

A global history of philosophy

A man helps his partner to dress by lacing her corset. (Photo by Frank Martin)

Love in Georgian times

Richard J Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Eric Hobsbawm: history and politics

In 1877, a major rebellion in Kyushu concentrated the opposition of conservative elements to the westernization of Japan. (Photo by Asian Art/Getty Images)

The story of modern Japan

John Simpson. (Photo by Chris Williamson)

Second World War

War and music

Agrippina the Younger. (Photo by Alamy)

A Roman woman of great power