World History Podcast

Historian Mary Beard at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on the nude in western art

The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

The woman who gave birth to rabbits

Indian soldiers during WWI

First World War

Indians in the trenches

Historian Claire Wright (Photo by Susan Papazian)

Fighting for the vote

Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

Second World War

The Holocaust orphans

Historian Sophie Ambler.

Simon de Montfort’s medieval revolution

West Indian immigrants arrive at Waterloo Station, 15 October 1961. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

The Windrush generation

Historian Stephen Tomkins (Photo by Fran Monks)

Puritans and the Mayflower

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The Auschwitz volunteer

Deer hunt, 15th century, workshop of the Bedford Breviary. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval myths

The Grey concrete blocks of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Second World War

Confronting a dark past

B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

From Allies to enemies

Historian and broadcaster David Reynolds. (Photo by Ian Farrell)

The long history of Brexit

Fresco by Memmo di Filippuccio, Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano/Tuscany (Photo by Alamy)

The filthy Middle Ages?

Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton, Background by Dreamstime)

A curious history of Christmas