Africa

c50 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, the last and most famous of the Ptolemaic dynasty. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about Cleopatra

History Extra’s top 10 podcast episodes

Tutankhamun’s golden funeral mask. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tutankhamun

A photograph of Nelson Mandela. Peter Hain told the History Extra podcast about the South African leader’s remarkable achievements in the face of tremendous adversity. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

Peter Hain on Nelson Mandela: “A symbol for good leadership in the world”

Nelson Mandela podcast

Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary life

Nelson Mandela

Mandela: the 20th century’s greatest leader?

Podcast Website large Jordanna Bailkin

Britain’s refugee camps

A reconstruction of a Theban painting from the Ancient Egyptian Dynasty XIX depicting a childbirth scene. The mother is seen being helped by her handmaidens and a midwife. Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

7 surprising facts about the history of medicine

Bronze statue of a she-wolf suckling twin brothers Romulus and Remus, the main characters of Rome's foundation myth. (Photo By DEA/G NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

10 key Roman dates you need to know

A still from the 2017 film Viceroy's House

Raj nostalgia: reconsidering the stories through which we view empire

Podcast Website large Saul David

The Entebbe raid

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BBC World Histories reader survey

Young and Dabiri podcast

Africa’s contested past

Podcast Website large Jock Lewes

Second World War

Creating the SAS