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.

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Wonders of the Middle Ages

Simon Sebag Montefiore on letters from history. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Letters that changed the world

Malcolm X speaking at a rally, 29 June 1963.(Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Black radicalism with Kehinde Andrews

Adam Zamoyski offers his views on the iconic French leader, Napoleon. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Napoleon: the insecure emperor

A poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children by Dorothea Lange, colourised by Marina Amaral. (Photo courtesy of Head of Zeus)

History in colour

Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552–1618 (Photo by Getty Images)

Walter Ralegh: enemy of the state

Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Alamy)

Second World War

The Germans who fought Hitler

Oswald Mosley, English Fascist leader, ariving and receiving the Fascist salute from his followers, London, 1936 (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

Hunting Britain’s Nazis

A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) is approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6th June 1944. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

Second World War

Tales from D-Day

Bernard Cornwell. (Photo by Felix Clay)

Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, 1934. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Nietzsche’s dangerous ideas

Dan Snow on shell shock.

First World War

Dan Snow on shell shock

News of the end of World War I hostilities is joyfully received by the men of the 64th Regiment Infantry, 7th Division. Min de Jaueny, Moselle, France on November 11, 1918. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

First World War

The end of the First World War

Mike Leigh at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in 2014. (Photo by dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo)

Mike Leigh on Peterloo