World History Podcast

Indian troops cooking in their camp kitchen in Marseilles. (Photo by Mirrorpix)

First World War

Indians in World War One

Photo by Dreamstime

2018 Christmas history quiz

Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, c. 1521 - 1608, known as Bess of Hardwick (Photo by Alamy)

Bess of Hardwick: a Tudor success story

15th century French illuminated manuscript: The flight into Egypt. (Photo by Getty Images)

Wonders of the Middle Ages

Simon Sebag Montefiore on letters from history. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Letters that changed the world

Malcolm X speaking at a rally, 29 June 1963.(Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Black radicalism with Kehinde Andrews

Adam Zamoyski offers his views on the iconic French leader, Napoleon. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Napoleon: the insecure emperor

A poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children by Dorothea Lange, colourised by Marina Amaral. (Photo courtesy of Head of Zeus)

History in colour

Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552–1618 (Photo by Getty Images)

Walter Ralegh: enemy of the state

Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Alamy)

Second World War

The Germans who fought Hitler

Oswald Mosley, English Fascist leader, ariving and receiving the Fascist salute from his followers, London, 1936 (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

Hunting Britain’s Nazis

A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) is approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6th June 1944. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

Second World War

Tales from D-Day

Bernard Cornwell. (Photo by Felix Clay)

Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, 1934. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Nietzsche’s dangerous ideas