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.

A Battle of Britain type 'scramble', circa 1940. An improved Spitfire is pushed onto the runway by a group of pilots from the squadron. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

The good war?

Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton for BBC History Magazine)

The extraordinary history of ordinary things

(Photo by David Hampton)

A half-hour history of Europe

Ian Hislop (Photo by J.Fernandes/D.Hubbard © Trustees of the British Museum)

Dissent through the centuries

Equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, Richmond (Photo by Library of Congress)

Who should we commemorate?

The march for Catalan Independence held in Barcelona, 11 September 2014 (Photo by Jordi Elias Grassot/Alamy)

Scots and Catalans

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100 women who changed the world

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Charles de Gaulle reconsidered

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Female spies of the Civil War era

Captain Cook's Endeavour podcast

Captain Cook’s Endeavour

Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history

Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history

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Mary Beard’s life in Classics

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Historical fact and fiction

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Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe