History Extra podcast
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History Extra podcast
The History Extra podcast brings you gripping stories from the past and fascinating historical conversations with the world's leading historical experts. Produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine, History Extra is a free history podcast, with episodes released six times a week. Subscribe now...
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How enslaved people fought for freedom across the Atlantic
From armed uprisings in the Caribbean to the hidden power of ritual, song and solidarity, the story of enslaved people’s resistance is far richer and...
Aneurin Bevan: life of the week
Aneurin Bevan's commitment to social justice led to the creation of the National Health Service in 1948 – one of the most ambitious social reforms in...
Bandits & blasphemers: crime in 17th century Scotland
Which crimes were most common in Scotland in the 17th century – and what can those crimes reveal about society at the time? In today's episode, we're...
The Normans: everything you wanted to know
After five years we come to our final 'everything you wanted to know about' episodes. We revisit our first episode where Marc Morris, author of an acc...
How Julius Caesar's funeral drama fuelled the mob
The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most infamous plots of the ancient world, but the dictator's death wasn't the only moment in his life...
The dark side of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys is well-known for his brilliantly evocative diary, which gives an unsurpassed insight into daily life in Restoration London. However, it...
Margaret Tudor: life of the week
Margaret Tudor was the daughter of a king, the sister of a king, and the wife of a king. But she was a political power player in her own right, carefu...
Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement
Women's role as slaveowners is often overlooked – but, just like men, they both profited from and maintained the institution of slavery. Speaking to E...
Roman homes: everything you wanted to know
If you could sneak a peek past the front door of a Roman home, what could you expect to find? Why was having a hole in your ceiling a clever feat of e...
Preview: Should historians be celebrities?
Historian, author and broadcaster David Olusoga is among the famous faces to feature on new TV series The Celebrity Traitors, which launches in the UK...
Queer life in Georgian Britain
There were many ways queer people in the Georgian era fought against social and legal restrictions to express their desire and convey their love for o...
Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe
If you lived in 16th-century London, would you have any idea what was happening in Paris, Venice or Frankfurt? Well, yes, according to Joad Raymond Wr...
Robert Peel: life of the week
He established the Metropolitan police, became embroiled in years of bitter disputes over the Corn Laws, and was vilified for his political U-turns. D...
The German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and blood
The German Peasants' War of 1524-5 was the largest popular uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution. Thousands flocked to its cause as...
Art Deco: everything you wanted to know
In the interwar period, a movement emerged that brought together architecture, fashion, and even typography that echoed the hopes, anxieties and ambit...
America in Korea: a failed occupation?
For three quarters of a century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two very different regimes that are bitterly opposed to each other. But...
The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies
From cleaners to codebreakers, women’s contributions to the history of British intelligence have often gone unrecognised and forgotten. But in actuali...
Andrew Carnegie: life of the week
How did a man who crushed unions in Gilded Age America come to see himself as humanity’s benefactor? Speaking to Elinor Evans, historian and biographe...
Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles
In the 1970s, a global group of feminist activists banded together with one demand: 'wages for housework'. Emily Callaci explores this campaign in her...
Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know
Who went to the theatre in ancient Rome – and what kind of spectacle would they have expected to see? And did the drama performed on stage reflect the...
Haiti's first and only king
Born to an enslaved mother in the British Caribbean in the tumultuous, brutal world of the late 18th century, Henry Christoph's role in the Haitian Re...
How the Cold War made the modern world
For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the world was frozen in a standoff. The Cold War era was defined by the ideological fissure between c...
Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week
Climbing to the top of Gilded Age society in 19th-century America, socialite Alva Vanderbilt made headlines for being one of the first elite women to...
How women were erased from economic history
Across 12,000 years of history, prosperity has flourished in societies where women could fully participate – and faltered when they were pushed to the...
The Phoenicians: everything you wanted to know
They gave us the alphabet, charted the seas by the Pole Star, and built Carthage – once Rome’s greatest rival. So why have the Phoenicians been forgot...
Black women and the fight for human rights
Despite facing significant obstacles in their own lives, black women in the United States were at the forefront of campaigns for human rights at home...
Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin
In the years following Stalin’s death in 1953, a new phenomenon emerged within the Soviet Union: so-called 'dissidents'. Preferring to think of themse...
El Cid: life of the week
The life of El Cid, the famed 11th-century Castilian warrior otherwise known as Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, is steeped in legend. Historian Nora Berend joi...
Burying the enemy: commemorating the world wars' fallen foes
For Britain and Germany, both world wars saw hundreds of thousands of casualties – but what happened to the bodies of those who died on enemy territor...
The Mughal empire: everything you wanted to know
The Mughal empire was one of the most powerful and influential dynasties in South Asian history, blending together a mix of cultural traditions to cre...
The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world
If you know anything about the Amazons of ancient legend, it's probably that they were fearsome female fighters, who bravely battled against male hero...
How did the Vikings shape Russia and Ukraine?
The story of the Vikings who travelled to eastern Europe is just as thrilling as the story of those who headed west. It's also just as important – sti...
William the Conqueror: life of the week
In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, crossed the Channel and changed English history forever. Known to some as a ruthless and ambitious conqueror and t...
Why the Maginot Line couldn't save France in WW2
As the threat of war began to loom in the 1930s, an elaborate system of fortifications sprung up in northeastern France. Known as the Maginot line, th...
Crime fiction history: everything you wanted to know
From Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has long been a popular genre. But what was the first crime novel? How has crime writing affecte...
How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world
What if the 'fall' of Rome wasn’t a collapse, but a rebrand? In this episode, Alice Roberts delves into the dramatic transformation of the Roman world...
The spy next door: Moscow's century-long plot to infiltrate the west
In 2010, the world was stunned when the United States exposed a covert Russian spy network operating on its soil. Seemingly all-American families livi...
Edward the Confessor: life of the week
Edward the Confessor, England’s penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, has long been remembered as a saintly, pious monarch – but was he really the weak ruler...
Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter
Histories of British involvement in the Caribbean tend to focus mainly on the period of plantation slavery but, in her new book Empire Without End, Im...
Nationalism: everything you wanted to know
Human beings tend to identify with being in a group, and, historically, few groupings have been more potent than the idea of the nation. But when did...