World History Podcast

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world

Mary Queen of Scots, after Nicholas Hilliard, 16th century, National Portrait Gallery, London. (Photo by SuperStock)

7 podcasts about British kings and queens to listen to right now

Historian and author Emma Griffin (Photo by Fran Monks)

Living on the edge in Victorian Britain

Cloisters at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (Photo by Dreamstime)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the English Reformation, but were afraid to ask

HistoryExtra’s top 15 most listened to podcast episodes

The Great Plague, from a pictorial broadsheet of 1665-1666 (Photo by Getty Images)

Surviving the Great Plague

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

12 podcasts about medieval history to listen to right now

Portrait of Isabella d'Este in Red by Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). (Photo by Getty Images)

Rethinking the Renaissance

The best Tudor podcasts to listen to right now. (Photo by Alamy)

9 podcasts about the Tudors to listen to right now

Detail of the processional frieze Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

7 podcasts about the Romans to listen to right now

Florence Nightingale

The life and legend of Florence Nightingale

Animal head-post from the Oseburg ship burial, from the Viking Ships Museum's collection in Oslo, 9th century (Photo by Alamy)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Vikings, but were afraid to ask

The German chief of staff General Alfred Jodl signs an unconditional surrender to the Allies in Reims, France, 7 May 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain at War

Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore

Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh presented by Viking Cruises opens at the Saatchi Gallery on 2 November. Tickets on-sale now, please visit: www.tutankhamun-london.com

6 podcasts about ancient Egypt to listen to right now