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Rob Attar

Rob Attar

I edit HistoryExtra magazine (formerly BBC History Magazine), overseeing all the content within it and ensuring we deliver on our promise to present expert historical research in an accessible fashion. I am a regular host on the HistoryExtra podcast and present our spin-off podcast series History’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories. I also contribute to HistoryExtra.com, and help shape our output on external platforms such as AppleNews+. I studied history at the University of Bristol and then magazine journalism at the University of Cardiff. In 2004 I joined the BBC History Magazine team and have edited the magazine since 2012. I’ve also been a HistoryExtra podcast host since we launched in 2007.

Ramesses II: Egypt’s greatest pharaoh?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy: did aliens build the pyramids?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy: who wrote Shakespeare?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracy: the lost civilisation of Atlantis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Ben McIntyre on Colditz: "The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable"

Crassus: Rome’s richest man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family history of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mutineer in the family. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Bank of England: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WW2’s most daring raid. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Napoleon of Fleet Street. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hilary Mantel on the secrets of successful historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escape from Colditz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Holocaust: a 21st-century view. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Russia's Civil WarWhy the 1917 uprisings descended into disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stalingrad: a soldier’s testimony. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The partition of India: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first Vietnam War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tsiang Ting-fuChinese historian and diplomat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empire of blood. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WW2’s desert war: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1942: Churchill’s darkest hour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rapa Nui’s island mysteries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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