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.

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

A set of Tudor faces laid out on playing cards

Why the Tudors fell for courtly love

Tristram Hunt discusses Josiah Wedgwood; groundbreaking potter, enterprising businessman and political radical. (Image by Getty Images)

Wedgwood: the radical potter

Richard Broome explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians after the arrival of white settlers in the 1780s. (Image by Getty Images)

Aboriginal Australians: a modern history

A panel of experts discuss the big issues facing history education in 2021

Decolonisation to Covid-19: history education today

Margalit Fox shares the story of two British prisoners of war who used a ouija board to launch an escape bid during the First World War

First World War

Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape

Robert Hutchinson answers your questions on England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. (Image by Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: everything you wanted to know

Saul David discusses his new history of the Special Boat Service – a daring maritime unit that played a crucial role in Allied victory in WW2.

Second World War

The Special Boat Service: WW2’s silent heroes

Dan Jones explores the similarities and differences between the medieval experience and our lives today. (Image by Getty Images)

The surprisingly modern Middle Ages

From the rise of Christianity to the Russian Revolution, David Potter analyses the causes of huge events that transformed human history. (Image by Getty Images)

Why do things change?