Measurement: an unexpected history
From weight and distance, to calorie-counting and calculating the depths of space, throughout...
45:24
15 minutes of fame: Alice Kinloch, Pan-African activist
It’s the HistoryExtra podcast’s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we’ve asked 15...
15:34
First World War poets: everything you wanted to know
How much has our view of the First World War – one of mud, trenches and futility –...
38:05
Stalingrad: a soldier’s testimony
Author Iain MacGregor reveals how the unpublished memoirs of a German officer shed fascinating...
49:35
Medieval monks: a day in the life
Danièle Cybulskie charts a day in the life of a medieval monk, from morning rituals and mealtime...
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Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America
Professor Sarah Churchwell discusses her new book The Wrath to Come, which re-examines the...
43:45
Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw
Professor Mark Cornwell charts the history of treason in Britain. He tells Kev Lochun how a...
42:13
15 minutes of fame: St Wilfrid, quarrelsome church reformer
It’s the HistoryExtra podcast’s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we’ve asked 15...
20:16
Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know
Stephen Tuffnell answers listener questions on the series of gold rushes that captivated the...
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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South
As part of our series of conversations with winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize, Dr Kimberly...
26:31
The end of Roman Britain | 8. ends and beginnings
In the final episode of the series, David Musgrove wraps up what we’ve learnt from our...
29:36
Hannibal: Rome’s greatest nightmare
Philip Freeman shares the story of how the brilliant Carthaginian general Hannibal led his...
31:12
Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator
Historian Geoffrey Roberts explores the life and career of Josef Stalin through his vast book...
38:32
15 minutes of fame: Queen Tiye, overshadowed ancient Egyptian royal
It’s the HistoryExtra podcast’s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we’ve asked 15...
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The partition of India: everything you wanted to know
For the latest in our everything you want to know series, historian Dr Anwesha Roy revisits the...
32:39
The BBC at 100: scandals break
In the penultimate episode of our series marking the centenary of the BBC, David Hendy looks back...
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The end of Roman Britain | 7. bones, diet and migrants
In this episode, we talk to Dr Sam Leggett, an expert in archaeological bone analysis, about the...
41:16
Historian Christopher Goscha explores the decade-long conflict between the French empire and Ho...
41:34
Powerful pages: the beguiling history of books
For centuries, humanity has had a love affair with books. But these volumes are far more than...
31:18
15 minutes of fame: Marie Tharp, ground-breaking cartographer
It’s the HistoryExtra podcast’s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we’ve asked 15...
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