World History 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.

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JFK: the path to power

Elaborate dragon carvings decorate the prow of the Oseberg longship, circa 800 AD, The Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway (Photo by Alamy)

Viking genes unravelled

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A mother and her children amid the smoking rubble of their city in 1940. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Hitler’s vengeance

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask

Thomas Williams on the HistoryExtra podcast

Ghosts of Viking London

British author, historian, reviewer and columnist Ben Macintyre

Second World War

Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history

A group of American soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Java, 1942 (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Prisoners of the Japanese

Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex (later Harold II of England), on horseback, holding a hawk. From the Bayeux Tapestry (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval rebellions

A suffragette march

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Suffragettes, but were afraid to ask

Barry Cunliffe

General ancient history

Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe

Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?

Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

Simon Schama on the Romantics

Isabel Wilkerson. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America

King Arthur and a hand holding the sword Excalibur.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the legends of King Arthur, but were afraid to ask