Dr David Musgrove

Dr David Musgrove is content director of the HistoryExtra.com website and podcast, plus its sister print magazines BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. He has a PhD in medieval landscape archaeology, investigating monastic drainage and land reclamation in the Somerset Levels (along with a side hustle in prehistoric beaver habitats in France). Since then, he has worked in history publishing for almost twenty years. He is author of 100 Places that made Britain (BBC Books, 2011), and with Michael Lewis, The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry (Thames and Hudson 2021). He regularly interviews historians for the podcast and curates HistoryExtra’s Medieval newsletter.

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“A succession of identity crises spanning thousands of years”: seven things you didn’t know about the history of fatherhood

Give away your worries, like an ancient Mesopotamian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What did Victorians do with their poo? The battle over the 19th-century excrement explosion

Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Romans were blamed for massacring these Iron Age warriors. But did they actually murder themselves?

Gods, demons, witches and exorcists: inside an ancient Assyrian library. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"A precious piece of our shared history”: will France still loan the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK?

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Sex lives of the Anglo-Saxons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“I counted the penises in the Bayeux Tapestry and I have no regrets”: what one Oxford professor found when he studied the rudest bits of the embroidery

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The strange story of the Nazi obsession with this legendary artefact still isn't over

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The royal threesome that rocked Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Do you know the correct date of Magna Carta? Here’s why you might be wrong

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