HistoryExtra Long Reads

Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds

Julius Caesar's funeral drama

Live Aid at 40

Inside the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain

Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell

The Ambassadors: painting on the precipice

The women who shaped Malcolm X

Spartacus: Rome's worst nightmare

Scotland's season of the witch

Why the Great Famine devastated Ireland

Why the ancient Egyptians worshipped wine

Matchless monsters: female murderers in early modern Britain

Richard III's remains: how science identified the king in the car park

Josephine Baker: dancer, activist, spy

Was Charles I a tyrant?

VE Day: was it really one big party?

Dangerous delights: Victorian Britain's cocaine habit

Mercia: the lost kingdom

Did Ronald Reagan 'make America great again'?

Fingers, frogs and fairies: fortune telling in early modern Britain

WW2 evacuees: when Britain escaped to the country

500,000 years of African history

Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered

Marco Polo's adventures: lands of make believe?

The gunpowder plot: how to build a radical

The battle of Monte Cassino: a hill to die on

Why sex was a sin in the Middle Ages

Ptolemy XII: Cleopatra's father from hell

Keep smiling: the history of happiness

Winston Churchill: still the greatest?

Influencers of the medieval age

Thomas Cromwell: hero to zero

Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast

Sarah Biffin: extraordinary artist

Lord Lucan: what really happened to the missing earl?

Gladiators: tales from the Roman arena

Audacious lady swindlers, con-women and hustlers

Edward of Warwick: the other prince in the tower

Mysterious mummification myths

Henry V's brutal youth

Pigs in the medieval city

How we found our bearings: the origins of the four compass points

Reading the runes: uncovering the everyday lives of the Vikings

Tales from history's toilets

Medieval England's political miracle

Dudley Clarke: the spy who hoodwinked Hitler

Henry VII: the king they couldn't kill

The suffragettes: masters of PR

Robert the Bruce: the man, the myth, the murderer

Oliver Cromwell's postal spies