History Extra podcast

Europe's last pagans

Europe's last pagans

VJ Day and the story of women's football: history behind the headlines

The tangled legacies of two Americas

The Paris Commune: everything you wanted to know

VJ Day: why don't we talk about WW2 in Asia?

Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy

Mary of Modena: life of the week

Frontier life: everything you wanted to know

Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World

Forgotten stories from South Asian history

Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?

JMW Turner: life of the week

Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb

WW2 evacuees: everything you wanted to know

Queen Victoria's secret love affair

The 300-year battle over free speech

Erik the Red: life of the week

Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age

Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome

Iron Mountain: the conspiracy that duped America

Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines

Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths

Beer history: everything you wanted to know

Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future

King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war

The Mitford sisters | 2 : life of the week

Slavery on the medieval Silk Road

The history of women's football: everything you wanted to know

Live Aid: pop's Big Bang moment

Exploring the medieval world with Marco Polo

The Mitford Sisters | 1 : life of the week

Beyond the trenches: a new take on WW1

Roman warfare: everything you wanted to know

Preview: Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?

The People's Princess: why Diana captivated the world

Secrets of medieval manuscripts

Owain Glyndŵr: life of the week

Magic beakers & Roman helmets: artefacts that shaped history

SOE: everything you wanted to know

Sisi & Eugénie: the empresses who redefined royalty

Ghosts, vampires & Abba holograms: an uncanny history of London

International security & rough sleeping: history behind the headlines

Make Mercia Great Again

The Merovingians: everything you wanted to know

How the Allies won WW2

Ancient tips for health and happiness

Thomas Aquinas: life of the week

Barmier than Bond: Ian Fleming's extraordinary wartime escapades

Fatherhood: a short history

CIA book smugglers of the Cold War