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History Extra podcast
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The latest news from the team behind BBC History Magazine - a popular History magazine. To find out more, visit www.historyextra.com
Wednesday 21 April 2021 : Joanna Bourke, who has been delivering a series of Gresham lectures on six different ‘evil women’ through history, explores what ideas...
Tuesday 20 April 2021 : In the first episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing...
Monday 19 April 2021 : As we approach the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s fateful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the historian, author and broadcaster...
Sunday 18 April 2021 : The Suez Crisis – sparked by an ill-fated Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956 – is often viewed as a turning point in modern...
Saturday 17 April 2021 : Author Roland Philipps talks about his latest book, Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal, which recounts...
Friday 16 April 2021 : Historian Catherine Fletcher discusses what is known about the private life and relationships of the Renaissance polymath. She considers the...
Wednesday 14 April 2021 : Historian and author Catherine Ostler relates the tale of Elizabeth Chudleigh, a glamorous Duchess-Countess whose high-profile bigamy trial...
Tuesday 13 April 2021 : In the final episode of the series, our panel considers the afterlife of the Tapestry, debating its differing legacies in France and...
Monday 12 April 2021 : To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history, touching...
Sunday 11 April 2021 : Professor Matthew Restall tackles listener questions and popular search queries about the central American civilisationProfessor Matthew...
Saturday 10 April 2021 : Elaine Farrell shares the stories of incarcerated Irish women, from daily routines inside a convict prison to relationships with staff and...
Friday 09 April 2021 : Sean McMeekin discusses his revisionist new history of the Second World War, which places Josef Stalin at the centre of the...
Wednesday 07 April 2021 : In 1961 cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to journey into space. Stephen Walker delves into the supercharged battle between the...
Tuesday 06 April 2021 : Although the story it depicts may have gone down in history, the Tapestry’s coverage of the events of 1066 is far from the whole story. In...
Monday 05 April 2021 : Jo Willett tells the story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who pioneered smallpox inoculation almost a century before Edward JennerMary...
Sunday 04 April 2021 : How much damage did the Great Fire of London cause? How long did it take to put out? And did it really start in Pudding Lane? Rebecca Rideal...
Saturday 03 April 2021 : The ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history, but how many of the legends surrounding her are...
Friday 02 April 2021 : In 1910, a sixteen-year-old girl named Lydia Harvey walked onto a steamship, sailed away from New Zealand and disappeared. She had been...
Wednesday 31 March 2021 : Dr Melanie Giles unravels some of the mysteries around amazingly preserved human remains found in bogs – and reveals what we can learn...
Tuesday 30 March 2021 : In recounting the Norman invasion of 1066, the Bayeux Tapestry tells a story that we’re all familiar with. But, look a bit closer and...
Monday 29 March 2021 : Jennifer Higgie charts the story of women’s self-portraits over the last 500 years of western art – uncovering tales of transgressive...
Sunday 28 March 2021 : What did it mean to be ‘born in the purple’? What lasting legacy did the empire have on how we eat dinner? And what does ‘Byzantine’...
Saturday 27 March 2021 : Rebecca Wragg Sykes introduces us to 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning, whose life has inspired the new film Ammonite. She reveals...
Friday 26 March 2021 : Historian Turtle Bunbury, author of new book The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism, shares stories of Irish...
Wednesday 24 March 2021 : Emma Stonex, author of a new novel The Lamplighters, talks about the strange true story of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse keepers, who...
History Extra podcast
Immediate Media
Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?
Joanna Bourke, who has been delivering a series of Gresham lectures on six different ‘evil women’ through history, explores what ideas...
Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Robert Walpole
In the first episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing...
Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble
As we approach the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s fateful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the historian, author and broadcaster...
The Suez Crisis: everything you wanted to know
The Suez Crisis – sparked by an ill-fated Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956 – is often viewed as a turning point in modern...
Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré
Author Roland Philipps talks about his latest book, Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal, which recounts...
Leonardo da Vinci’s private life
Historian Catherine Fletcher discusses what is known about the private life and relationships of the Renaissance polymath. She considers the...
The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England
Historian and author Catherine Ostler relates the tale of Elizabeth Chudleigh, a glamorous Duchess-Countess whose high-profile bigamy trial...
Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep5: What now?
In the final episode of the series, our panel considers the afterlife of the Tapestry, debating its differing legacies in France and...
Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history
To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history, touching...
The Maya: everything you wanted to know
Professor Matthew Restall tackles listener questions and popular search queries about the central American civilisationProfessor Matthew...
Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland
Elaine Farrell shares the stories of incarcerated Irish women, from daily routines inside a convict prison to relationships with staff and...
Stalin: the real victor of WW2
Sean McMeekin discusses his revisionist new history of the Second World War, which places Josef Stalin at the centre of the...
Sending the first man into space
In 1961 cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to journey into space. Stephen Walker delves into the supercharged battle between the...
Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep4: What’s missing?
Although the story it depicts may have gone down in history, the Tapestry’s coverage of the events of 1066 is far from the whole story. In...
The feminist who waged war on smallpox
Jo Willett tells the story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who pioneered smallpox inoculation almost a century before Edward JennerMary...
The Great Fire of London: everything you wanted to know
How much damage did the Great Fire of London cause? How long did it take to put out? And did it really start in Pudding Lane? Rebecca Rideal...
Cleopatra: unpicking myth from reality
The ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history, but how many of the legends surrounding her are...
Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey
In 1910, a sixteen-year-old girl named Lydia Harvey walked onto a steamship, sailed away from New Zealand and disappeared. She had been...
Bog bodies: what can they teach us?
Dr Melanie Giles unravels some of the mysteries around amazingly preserved human remains found in bogs – and reveals what we can learn...
Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep3: What story does the Tapestry tell?
In recounting the Norman invasion of 1066, the Bayeux Tapestry tells a story that we’re all familiar with. But, look a bit closer and...
500 years of women’s self-portraits
Jennifer Higgie charts the story of women’s self-portraits over the last 500 years of western art – uncovering tales of transgressive...
The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know
What did it mean to be ‘born in the purple’? What lasting legacy did the empire have on how we eat dinner? And what does ‘Byzantine’...
Ammonite & the real fossil hunter Mary Anning
Rebecca Wragg Sykes introduces us to 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning, whose life has inspired the new film Ammonite. She reveals...
Tales of Irish emigration
Historian Turtle Bunbury, author of new book The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism, shares stories of Irish...
The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers
Emma Stonex, author of a new novel The Lamplighters, talks about the strange true story of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse keepers, who...
