HistoryExtra Podcast

Sculpture dedicated to king Leonidas of the Spartans in Thermopylae, Greece.

Sparta

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 8: A conclusion (of sorts)

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 7: Survival theories

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 6: The other suspects

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 5: Circumstantial evidence and strange behaviour

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 4: Examining the evidence

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 3: The prime suspect

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 2: The timeline

Princes in the Tower Podcast Series

Princes in the Tower Episode 1: The case

Priya Atwal on the HistoryExtra podcast. The Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar

The rise and fall of the Sikh empire

Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

The history of Japan: everything you wanted to know

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Second World War

Arnhem: the Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Author Kate Summerscale (Photo by Fran Monks)

A 1930s ghost hunt

A watermill, with fish nets and eel traps visible beneath the waters of the mill leat Luttrell Psalter. England, c 1325-1335. (Photo by Alamy)

Medieval eels and Englishness

Welsh-born author Ken Follett, pictured at Hay Festival, Hay on Wye, UK, 2019. (Photo by Alamy)

Ken Follett’s Anglo-Saxon adventure