Military history

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

A brief history of Memorial Day in the USA

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

Second World War

How successful was the Dambusters raid?

HistoryExtra’s top 15 most listened to podcast episodes

Henry III during the Second Barons' War

Simon de Montfort and the barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III

Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

What was the Roman Empire’s greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9

The German chief of staff General Alfred Jodl signs an unconditional surrender to the Allies in Reims, France, 7 May 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain at War

Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore

B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

WW2 podcasts: 9 top episodes about the Second World War

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

The Second World War: a timeline

Soldiers from the Women's Royal Army Corps

Second World War

A brief guide to VE Day

8 May 1945: Crowds celebrate VE Day in London, at the end of World War 2. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

VE Day at 75 “Hooray! The war is ended”: 5 people’s recollections of VE Day

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

Second World War

“The war without an end”: what happened in Europe after VE Day?

Ill mannered discussions: Chinese leader General Chiang Kai-shek, US president Franklin D Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill meet at the Cairo Conference in November 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

VE Day at 75 Preparing for peace: why WW2 felt like a war without an end

Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in London celebrate VE Day

Second World War

Countdown to VE Day: the week World War 2 ended in Europe

Edward the Confessor

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Anglo-Saxons