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 Roger Luckhurst WL

General History

The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining

Pod Natalie Livingstone WL

General History

Women of the Rothschild dynasty

Pod Rory Cormac WL

Queen Victoria’s spy network

Pod Rana Mitter WL

Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Podcast Dominic Sandbrook WL

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain

Pod David Perry WL

Shining new light on medieval Europe

Pod Tom Morris WL

A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin

Pod Mike Carr WL

Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages

Pod Thomas Harding WL

The Demerara slave uprising

Pod Kate Jamieson WL

General History

The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know

Pod Jane Desborough WL

Ancient Greek scientific thinking

Pod Edward Brooke Hitching WL

General History

Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide

Pod Tessa Dunlop WL

Second World War

Women who served in WW2

Pod Malcolm Gaskill WL

A forgotten witch hunt in New England

Pod Edmond Smith WL

Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England