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.

Francis Pryor explores the sensory world of prehistoric Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Inside the prehistoric mind

A black-and-white image shows King George V inspecting soldiers

First World War

How did the British royals survive WW1?

Matthew Stevens tackles listener questions on the history of the Welsh regions during the Middle Ages

Medieval Wales: everything you wanted to know

Historian Dennis Duncan guides us through singular stories from the history of the book index

A surprising history of the index

Dr Benjamin Pohl explores the role of monks and abbots in the Middle Ages, and asks: why did they write histories?

Why did medieval monks write histories?

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad

Jihad and the British empire

From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know

Neil Oliver discusses his new book, which takes us on a whistle-stop tour of global history. (Image by Getty Images)

World history in 100 moments

Ian Keable describes some of the most audacious, bizarre and inventive pranks that fooled Georgian Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

Extraordinary hoaxes of the 18th century

Empress Maria Theresa, a portrait

Maria Theresa: empress, warrior, matriarch

An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses

Charlie English discusses what an extraordinary art collection reveals about Nazism’s impact on modernist art and people with mental illnesses. (Image by Getty Images)

Hitler’s war on “degenerate art”

A portrait of a member of the Borgias family

The Borgias: everything you wanted to know