History Extra podcast by Immediate Media

HistoryExtra brings you interviews with the world's best historians, on everything from the ancient world and the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the history behind current events. Subscribe for fresh takes on history's most famous figures and events, the real stories behind your favourite historical films and TV shows, and compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past.

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- Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life

Mon, 27 Mar 2023
1641
- George VI’s Nazi dilemma

Sun, 26 Mar 2023
1640
- The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 26 Mar 2023
1639
- Six Wives Trailer

Sat, 25 Mar 2023
1638
- Patriarchy’s long roots

Fri, 24 Mar 2023
1637
- Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”

Thu, 23 Mar 2023
1636
- Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer

Wed, 22 Mar 2023
1635
- Science & religion: a story of war or harmony?

Tue, 21 Mar 2023
1634
- The North: from Bede to Lowry

Mon, 20 Mar 2023
1633
- Paganism: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 19 Mar 2023
1632
- Eat for victory: WW2’s “British Restaurants”

Fri, 17 Mar 2023
1631
- Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
1630
- Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
1629
- Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat

Tue, 14 Mar 2023
1628
- Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters

Mon, 13 Mar 2023
1627
- Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 12 Mar 2023
1626
- Treasure, heritage & returning artefacts

Sat, 11 Mar 2023
1625
- Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society

Fri, 10 Mar 2023
1624
- Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community

Thu, 09 Mar 2023
1623
- The Iraq War, 20 years on

Wed, 08 Mar 2023
1622
- Volcanoes & nuclear armageddon: humanity’s long relationship with nature

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
1621
- Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India

Mon, 06 Mar 2023
1620
- Medieval women: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 05 Mar 2023
1619
- History’s greatest cities: Prague Trailer

Sat, 04 Mar 2023
1618
- Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile

Fri, 03 Mar 2023
1617
- The Tudor who hiked North America

Thu, 02 Mar 2023
1616
- Dick Whittington: from medieval merchant to panto hero

Wed, 01 Mar 2023
1615
- Pirate flags & wedding gowns: a patchwork of a Victorian life

Tue, 28 Feb 2023
1614
- Oscar Wilde on trial

Mon, 27 Feb 2023
1613
- Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 26 Feb 2023
1612
- History's greatest cities | Berlin

Sat, 25 Feb 2023
1611
- The book that transformed medieval England

Fri, 24 Feb 2023
1610
- Why the Middle Ages matter

Thu, 23 Feb 2023
1609
- The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis

Wed, 22 Feb 2023
1608
- Breastfeeding: a cultural history

Tue, 21 Feb 2023
1607
- Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor

Mon, 20 Feb 2023
1606
- Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 19 Feb 2023
1605
- Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?

Fri, 17 Feb 2023
1604
- From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath

Thu, 16 Feb 2023
1603
- The Koh-i-Noor

Thu, 03 Aug 2017
1602
- Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king

Wed, 15 Feb 2023
1601
- Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter

Tue, 14 Feb 2023
1600
- Marie Antoinette in her own words

Mon, 13 Feb 2023
1599
- The Romantics: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 12 Feb 2023
1598
- Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War

Fri, 10 Feb 2023
1597
- Why did the Ottoman empire implode?

Thu, 09 Feb 2023
1596
- Was Shakespeare a snob?

Wed, 08 Feb 2023
1595
- Tudors in revolt: the Western Rising of 1549

Tue, 07 Feb 2023
1594
- Female spies who forged the CIA

Mon, 06 Feb 2023
1593
- Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know

Sun, 05 Feb 2023

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