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.

Pod Hannah Skoda WL

Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel

Tyler Stovall speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book 'White Freedom'.

Liberty and racism: an interconnected history

George III. (Image by Alamy)

George III: the tyrant who lost America?

Marie Favreau talks to the HistoryExtra podcast

At home with the Mongols

Sophie Hay answers listener questions on the Roman city that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79. (Image by Getty Images)

Pompeii: everything you wanted to know

Nick Baker and John Woolf discuss some lesser known aspects of the Edwardian Age. (Image by Getty Images)

Unexpected Edwardians

Pod Kyle Harper WL

Plagues of our past

Pod James Holland WL

Second World War

Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment

Manan Ahmed Asif

How Hindustan became India

Pod Clare Jackson WL

The turbulent Stuart century

Saul Dubow responds to listener questions on Victorian Britain’s bitter conflict with two southern African republics. (Image by Getty Images)

The Boer War: everything you wanted to know

Niklas Frank describes his father’s role in the Nazi regime and explains why he wants to ensure his crimes are not forgotten.

Second World War

My father the Nazi

Victorian singer, performer and entrepreneur Emily Soldene

Adventures of a Victorian actor

John of Gaunt: prince without a throne

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

General prehistory

Inside the prehistoric mind