Podcasts History History Extra podcast
History Extra podcast

History Extra podcast

968 episodes

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 for the real stories behind your favourite films, TV shows and period dramas, as well as compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past.    We delve into global history stories spanning the ancient world right up to the modern day. You’ll hear deep dives into the lives of famous historical figures like Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn and Winston Churchill, and explorations of intriguing events from the past, such as the Salem witch trials, the battle of Waterloo and D-Day.    Expect fresh takes on history, helping you get to grips with the latest research, as we explore everything from ancient Roman archaeology and Viking mythology to Renaissance royals and Tudor kings and queens.    Our episodes touch on a wide range of historical eras – from the Normans and Saxons to the Stuarts, Victorians and the Regency period. We cover the most popular historical subjects, from the medieval world to the Second World War, but you’ll also hear conversations on lesser-known parts of our past, including black history and women’s history.    Looking at the history behind today’s headlines, we consider the forces that have shaped today’s world, from the imposing empires that dominated continents, to the revolutions that brought them crashing down. We also examine the impact of conflict across the centuries, from the crusades of the Middle Ages and the battles of the ancient Egyptians to World War One, World War Two and the Cold War.     Plus, we uncover the real history behind myths, legends and conspiracy theories, from the medieval murder mystery of the Princes in the Tower, to the assassination of JFK.     Featuring interviews with notable historians including Mary Beard, Tracy Borman, James Holland and Dan Jones, we cover a range of social, political and military history, with the aim to start conversations about some of the most fascinating areas of the past.  Unlock full access to HistoryExtra.com for 6 months for just 99p https://www.historyextra.com/join/

Podcasts

Cocaine: a Victorian sensation

Published: Oct. 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval science: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 26, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle

Published: Oct. 24, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes

Listed in: History

The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant

Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 56 seconds

Listed in: History

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?

Published: Oct. 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature

Published: Oct. 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil

Published: Oct. 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

The Korean War: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 19, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire

Published: Oct. 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

1066: the battle for England | 4. the long and violent Norman Conquest

Published: Oct. 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'

Published: Oct. 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

John Milton: life of the week

Published: Oct. 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Why did people kill for Hitler?

Published: Oct. 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

The Cathars: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 12, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street

Published: Oct. 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles

Published: Oct. 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

The race to identify all living creatures

Published: Oct. 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

King John: life of the week

Published: Oct. 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes

Listed in: History

Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world

Published: Oct. 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

Listed in: History

Tea history: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 5, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

Victorian women detectives

Published: Oct. 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne

Published: Oct. 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

A hidden history of black civil rights

Published: Oct. 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week

Published: Sept. 30, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

How did the US get so many guns?

Published: Sept. 29, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Communism: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 28, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy

Published: Sept. 26, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons

Published: Sept. 25, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds

Listed in: History

Churchill's prewar crisis meetings

Published: Sept. 24, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Henry VII: life of the week

Published: Sept. 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future

Published: Sept. 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years

Published: Sept. 19, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egypt | 5. a lost world?

Published: Sept. 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa

Published: Sept. 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines

Published: Sept. 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

How ancient India transformed the world

Published: Sept. 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 19 seconds

Listed in: History

The Hittites: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London

Published: Sept. 12, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

Ancient Egypt | 4. religion and death

Published: Sept. 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

Native Americans: a history of power and survival

Published: Sept. 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: life of the week

Published: Sept. 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

The 1943 battle of Kursk and its present-day echoes

Published: Sept. 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval documents in danger

Published: Sept. 5, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egypt | 3. culture

Published: Sept. 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Our 10,000-year quest for equality

Published: Sept. 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds

Listed in: History

Michelangelo: life of the week

Published: Sept. 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: History

The Battle of Meggido: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?

Published: Sept. 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know

Published: Aug. 31, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds

Listed in: History

The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees

Published: Aug. 29, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egypt | 2. everyday life

Published: Aug. 28, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices

Published: Aug. 27, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

Emperor Vespasian: life of the week

Published: Aug. 26, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

An audacious escape from slavery

Published: Aug. 25, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 24, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

Crusader criminals: how the Holy Land became a hotbed of lawlessness

Published: Aug. 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egypt | 1. civilisation

Published: Aug. 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egypt: the big questions | Trailer

Published: Aug. 21, 2024, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 46 seconds

Listed in: History

Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps

Published: Aug. 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

The far right in Britain: history behind the headlines

Published: Aug. 19, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk

Published: Aug. 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

The history of migration: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

Eighteen-year-olds who changed history

Published: Aug. 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Toilets through time | 4. Victorian lavatories

Published: Aug. 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

How games changed history

Published: Aug. 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes

Listed in: History

George Orwell: life of the week

Published: Aug. 12, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history

Published: Aug. 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Tartan: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces

Published: Aug. 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

Listed in: History

Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes

Published: Aug. 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: History

Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author

Published: Aug. 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

Anne Frank: life of the week

Published: Aug. 5, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: History

Stealing the Mona Lisa

Published: Aug. 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

Dismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort

Published: Aug. 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Toilets through time | 2. Medieval privies

Published: July 31, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

Has imperial history become too politicised?

Published: July 30, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Francis Drake: life of the week

Published: July 29, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Our long obsession with the end of the world

Published: July 28, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 27, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Black Death: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 26, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island

Published: July 25, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines

Published: July 24, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Assassinations that shaped US history

Published: July 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines

Published: July 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen

Published: July 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds

Listed in: History

1217: the year that (almost) changed English history

Published: July 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?

Published: July 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain

Published: July 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Catherine de' Medici: life of the week

Published: July 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

The suffragettes who fell in love

Published: July 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: History

Servants: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Anxieties of the Edwardian age

Published: July 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house

Published: July 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 19 seconds

Listed in: History

How the Plantagenets forged the English state

Published: July 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

Justinian: life of the week

Published: July 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

The woman who saved the children

Published: July 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

Listed in: History

Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart

Published: July 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse

Published: July 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

The surprising lives of ancient women

Published: July 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

Boudica: life of the week

Published: July 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

How Stalin ran rings round the west

Published: June 30, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

British general elections: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 29, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval keep fit

Published: June 27, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement

Published: June 26, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

A 21st-century Holocaust trial

Published: June 25, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

Catherine Parr: life of the week

Published: June 24, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft

Published: June 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time

Published: June 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait

Published: June 19, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?

Published: June 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: History

Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines

Published: June 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Has WW2 become a national religion?

Published: June 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Beowulf: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

Listed in: History

Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms

Published: June 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn

Published: June 12, 2024, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Deeds not words | Trailer

Published: June 12, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds

Listed in: History

War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2

Published: June 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week

Published: June 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper

Published: June 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

The pilgrim fathers: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Beastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century

Published: June 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation?

Published: June 5, 2024, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

D-Day: Land

Published: June 5, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 56 seconds

Listed in: History

A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life

Published: June 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Plato: life of the week

Published: June 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages

Published: June 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: History

Julian: the Roman emperor who (almost) changed the world

Published: May 30, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 58 seconds

Listed in: History

D-Day: Sea

Published: May 29, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

Listed in: History

A Soviet road trip through 1930s America

Published: May 28, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Galileo: life of the week

Published: May 27, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

What was life like as a peasant?

Published: May 26, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds

Listed in: History

The history of museums: everything you wanted to know

Published: May 25, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: History

Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance

Published: May 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: History

D-Day: Air

Published: May 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies

Published: May 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Maria Theresa: life of the week

Published: May 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis

Published: May 19, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

The Terror: everything you wanted to know

Published: May 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip

Published: May 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Guadalcanal: WW2's greatest battles

Published: May 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2's greatest battles | 5. Guadalcanal

Published: May 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

A surprising history of sex between men

Published: May 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries

Published: May 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens

Published: May 12, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know

Published: May 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?

Published: May 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

El Alamein: WW2's greatest battles

Published: May 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein

Published: May 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen

Published: May 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

Listed in: History

Kublai Khan: life of the week

Published: May 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

Inside a Jim Crow asylum

Published: May 5, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know

Published: May 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion

Published: May 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2's greatest battles | 3. Battle of the Atlantic

Published: May 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Smash hits: 17th-century style

Published: April 30, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

Benjamin Franklin: life of the week

Published: April 29, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world

Published: April 28, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Greg Jenner and Campbell Price delve into the curious and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian mummification

Published: April 27, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan?

Published: April 25, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad

Published: April 24, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Aztec myths

Published: April 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

David Lloyd George: life of the week

Published: April 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century

Published: April 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 27 seconds

Listed in: History

Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

An African perspective on the history of Africa

Published: April 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain

Published: April 17, 2024, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2's greatest battles | Trailer

Published: April 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 seconds

Listed in: History

How Kissinger transformed the Cold War

Published: April 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Lord Byron: life of the week

Published: April 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats

Published: April 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster

Published: April 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination Oswalds second murder

Published: April 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes

Listed in: History

Clotilda: the last slave ship to America

Published: April 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: History

History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine

Published: April 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland

Published: April 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds

Listed in: History

Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 31 seconds

Listed in: History

Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery

Published: April 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 22 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination 95 per cent certain?

Published: April 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

The British empire's divisive legacy

Published: April 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Saladin: life of the week

Published: April 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties

Published: March 31, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 31, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession

Published: March 29, 2024, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Tiger Tamer | 6. battling against Bovril

Published: March 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?

Published: March 27, 2024, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Joan of Arc: life of the week

Published: March 26, 2024, midnight
Duration: 54 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Leftovers: how our ancestors battled food waste

Published: March 25, 2024, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 24, 2024, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot

Published: March 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows

Published: March 21, 2024, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Will the real Jesus please stand up?

Published: March 20, 2024, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week

Published: March 19, 2024, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain

Published: March 18, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

The Capetians: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 17, 2024, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 46 seconds

Listed in: History

Lothar II vs Theutberga: a marriage scandal that shook the ninth century

Published: March 15, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 22 seconds

Listed in: History

Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian

Published: March 14, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds

Listed in: History

A political earthquake: Britain's first Labour government

Published: March 13, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

James VI and I: life of the week

Published: March 12, 2024, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

From Russia to Texas: the search for a Jewish homeland

Published: March 11, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 10, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia

Published: March 8, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 58 seconds

Listed in: History

Tiger Tamer | 3. would you let a tiger lick your face?

Published: March 7, 2024, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama

Published: March 6, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

History Behind the Headlines: ageing politicians & new names for the London Overground

Published: March 5, 2024, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest

Published: March 4, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 3, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones

Published: March 1, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

Tiger Tamer | 2. sail, steam & stormy seas

Published: Feb. 29, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit

Published: Feb. 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Rudyard Kipling: life of the week

Published: Feb. 27, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors

Published: Feb. 26, 2024, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 25, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights

Published: Feb. 24, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

The Chinese migrants chasing an American dream

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Tiger Tamer | 1. the life of a dozen men

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds

Listed in: History

The Tiger Tamer who went to sea | Trailer

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

Listed in: History

The Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany

Published: Feb. 21, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

Christopher Columbus: life of the week

Published: Feb. 20, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Slavic Myths: vampires werewolves and cabbages

Published: Feb. 19, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

The Roman army: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 18, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera

Published: Feb. 17, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Victorian death rituals

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy | 5. Legends of the Knights Templar

Published: Feb. 15, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Happily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen's era

Published: Feb. 14, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

History Behind the Headlines: the Post Office, US elections and Alexander the Great

Published: Feb. 13, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Drag: a British history

Published: Feb. 12, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval Ireland: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 11, 2024, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Peking to Paris: the worlds first great motor race

Published: Feb. 9, 2024, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy | 4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Published: Feb. 8, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Love: a weird & wonderful history

Published: Feb. 7, 2024, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the week: the Duke of Wellington

Published: Feb. 6, 2024, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Ploughman's for the people: a culinary history of Britain

Published: Feb. 5, 2024, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Chivalry: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 4, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Alexandria: the first modern city

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy | 3. Who killed JFK?

Published: Feb. 1, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

Masters of the Air: the real history behind the new show.

Published: Jan. 31, 2024, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the week: Spartacus

Published: Jan. 30, 2024, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

The West's enduring fascination with Asia

Published: Jan. 29, 2024, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'

Published: Jan. 26, 2024, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy | 2. Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?

Published: Jan. 25, 2024, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Ireland's tangled relationship with empire

Published: Jan. 24, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the Week: Harold Godwinson (Harold II)

Published: Jan. 23, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

Britain's long love affair with sport

Published: Jan. 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

The Silk Road: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 21, 2024, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity

Published: Jan. 19, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy | 1. Was Elizabeth I a man?

Published: Jan. 18, 2024, 12:10 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Conspiracy | Series 2 Trailer

Published: Jan. 18, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds

Listed in: History

From the Mongols to the Huns: the nomads who dominated Eurasia

Published: Jan. 17, 2024, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

Published: Jan. 16, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

The hidden history of women in intelligence

Published: Jan. 15, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 14, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

'Madness' and the supernatural

Published: Jan. 12, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Boston Tea Party | 5. A complex legacy

Published: Jan. 11, 2024, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Why were the Romantics obsessed with Mount Vesuvius?

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the Week: Stalin

Published: Jan. 9, 2024, midnight
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

James Longstreet: Confederate Judas

Published: Jan. 8, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval popes: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 7, 2024, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

A history of song: from Schumann to Sting

Published: Jan. 5, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Boston Tea Party | 4. The crackdown

Published: Jan. 4, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Aztec warfare

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

History Behind the Headlines: Elections, panda diplomacy and the word of the year

Published: Jan. 2, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

How spies shaped the modern world

Published: Jan. 1, 2024, midnight
Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

The Habsburgs: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 31, 2023, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

The medieval Welsh Marches: identity on the frontier

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

Boston Tea Party | 3. The destruction of the tea

Published: Dec. 28, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Sherlock Holmes: the real history that inspired the detective stories

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the week: Queen Victoria

Published: Dec. 26, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

Merry Christmas from the HistoryExtra podcast

Published: Dec. 25, 2023, midnight
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Druids: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes

Listed in: History

Bannockburn: Robert the Bruces greatest victory

Published: Dec. 22, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Boston Tea Party | 2. The Sons of Liberty

Published: Dec. 21, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

Amazing Grace: a story of salvation and slavery

Published: Dec. 20, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the week: Amelia Earhart

Published: Dec. 19, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 17, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar | 1. Beware the Ides of March

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 19 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar | 6. The evil that men do

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar | 2. Was this ambition?

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar | 4. Honourable men

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar | 5. The dogs of war

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar | 3. Master of his fate

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Netflix's The Crown: history and storytelling

Published: Dec. 15, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

Boston Tea Party | 1. Tea and taxes

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

Boston Tea Party: Igniting a revolution | Trailer

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, midnight
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Introducing Life of the Week

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the Week: Mansa Musa

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Victoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history

Published: Dec. 11, 2023, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

The American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 10, 2023, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

Books and war: from James Bond to leaflet bombing

Published: Dec. 8, 2023, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Shakespeare: Past Master | 4. Hamlet

Published: Dec. 7, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval manners: social etiquette in the Middle Ages

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

Marshal Petain: Vichy France in the dock

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 3, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

The dangerous road to the Bastille

Published: Dec. 1, 2023, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Shakespeare: Past Master | 3. Julius Caesar

Published: Nov. 30, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Du Fu: China's greatest poet

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Cities that turbocharged art history

Published: Nov. 27, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Astronomy history: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 26, 2023, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

The dark side of Dickens

Published: Nov. 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 5 seconds

Listed in: History

Shakespeare: Past Master | 2. Romeo and Juliet

Published: Nov. 23, 2023, midnight
Duration: 25 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Thanksgiving: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 23, 2023, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

The dangers of medieval travel

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: History

The Princes in the Tower: has the mystery been solved?

Published: Nov. 20, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

The Pre-Raphaelites: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 19, 2023, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Resistance in the Second World War

Published: Nov. 17, 2023, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

Shakespeare: Past Master | 1. Henry V

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

Shakespeare Trailer

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 39 seconds

Listed in: History

George Orwells forgotten wife

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Magic books: a global history

Published: Nov. 13, 2023, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Norse myths: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval Stalingrad: The siege of Calais

Published: Nov. 10, 2023, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

The First Crusade | 5. The end or the beginning?

Published: Nov. 9, 2023, midnight
Duration: 48 minutes 19 seconds

Listed in: History

The Munich Putsch: Hitlers bungled revolution

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

Listed in: History

Womens history: from 1066 to Margaret Thatcher

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egyptian pyramids: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 5, 2023, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Scotlands last witch

Published: Nov. 3, 2023, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 46 seconds

Listed in: History

The First Crusade | 4. Besieged

Published: Nov. 2, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

Fighting racism in postwar Britain

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Horror films: a chilling cultural history

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

The history of Jamaica: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Killers of the Flower Moon: The real history

Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

The First Crusade | 3. Crossing into the unknown

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Disease killers: the black nurses who conquered TB

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

Who moulded Winston Churchill?

Published: Oct. 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

The Second Barons War: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Renaissance eugenics

Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

The First Crusade | 2. On the road

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

Listed in: History

1960s Britain: smashing the status quo?

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Life of the week Trailer

Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 seconds

Listed in: History

Disney at 100

Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Weimar Germany: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Slave traders: the men who built a brutal empire

Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: History

The First Crusade | 1. The call to arms

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

The First Crusade Trailer

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: History

Re-examining women in the Roman empire

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

History Behind the Headlines Trailer

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 seconds

Listed in: History

Is black history still being overlooked?

Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 5 seconds

Listed in: History

Cat history: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

The Huxleys: how one family shaped our view of nature

Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Great Reputations: Gandhi

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

The Cultural Revolution: a Chinese catastrophe

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

The brutal WW2 battle for Italy

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

David Mitchell on a new history of Englands monarchy

Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Archaeologys golden age: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

One day in the British empire

Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

Listed in: History

Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

How to live like a Roman emperor

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 22 seconds

Listed in: History

How has fear shaped history?

Published: Sept. 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: History

The Battle of Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 23, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: History

Rocket women: Americas first female astronauts

Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: History

Great Reputations: Napoleon

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Chaos & violence in country houses

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South

Published: Sept. 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

Listed in: History

Scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

British parliament: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

When poison pen letters caused chaos

Published: Sept. 14, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Great Reputations: Cleopatra

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Secrets of the Anglo-Saxon bone chests

Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Jane Austens passion for fashion

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes

Listed in: History

The brain behind the Dambusters raid

Published: Sept. 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Spanish flu: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Women who shaped the Roman empire

Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Great Reputations: Oliver Cromwell

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

The secret club for radical New York women

Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

Margaret Cavendish: scandalous 17th-century writer

Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 26 seconds

Listed in: History

The triumph of Joan of Arc

Published: Sept. 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Rome v Carthage: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 2, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

Listed in: History

Tokyos devastating 1923 earthquake

Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 19 seconds

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: legacy

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

On the trail of a Nazi war criminal

Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

How did empire shape modern Britain?

Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Why did medieval Europe become Christian?

Published: Aug. 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

The Mongols: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

The lost world of Dickens London

Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: Malcolm Xs assassination

Published: Aug. 23, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

The miners strike: a view from the ground

Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Californias hidden history of slavery

Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Letters from medieval England

Published: Aug. 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

New Zealand: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

Indian experiences in WW2

Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

Learning disabilities: an overlooked history

Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Secrets of ancient Chinese tombs

Published: Aug. 14, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims

Published: Aug. 13, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Ancient Egyptian religion: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

Introducing HistoryExtra Long Reads

Published: Aug. 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?

Published: Aug. 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: the March on Washington

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Roger Mortimer: medieval rebel

Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Emotional revolution in postwar Britain

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight

Published: Aug. 6, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know

Published: Aug. 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Surviving Hitler and Stalin

Published: Aug. 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott

Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

Renaissance beauty regimes

Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

AI: An ancient nightmare?

Published: July 31, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard

Published: July 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

The NHS: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 29, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

Life in a WW2 tank regiment

Published: July 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: Fighting for freedom

Published: July 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: History

US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till

Published: July 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

A ring of poisoners: Hungarys most notorious murders

Published: July 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 46 seconds

Listed in: History

RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2

Published: July 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

UFO sightings: an otherworldly history

Published: July 23, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

Dog history: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

History's greatest cities | Season 2 Trailer

Published: July 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

Oppenheimer: destroyer of worlds

Published: July 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 56 seconds

Listed in: History

How Barbie changed the world

Published: July 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: History

Britains love affair with Edward VII

Published: July 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

The WAAF: the many behind the few

Published: July 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Eastern Europe: a personal journey through the regions past

Published: July 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Blindness: a cultural history

Published: July 13, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy

Published: July 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees

Published: July 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

How did medieval people tell the time?

Published: July 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Lost civilisations of the Mediterranean

Published: July 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 19 seconds

Listed in: History

1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Tom Holland on Romes golden age

Published: July 6, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Big questions of the Crimean War: into the Valley of Death

Published: July 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 31 seconds

Listed in: History

Why Britain fell in love with the NHS

Published: July 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds

Listed in: History

From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing

Published: July 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 32 seconds

Listed in: History

Life on Britains WW1 home front

Published: July 2, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 33 seconds

Listed in: History

The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know

Published: July 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy

Published: June 29, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

Big questions of the Crimean War: the build up

Published: June 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life

Published: June 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

How germs shaped human history

Published: June 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany

Published: June 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

The Luddites: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds

Listed in: History

Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers

Published: June 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Before Windrush: Britains long relationship with the Caribbean

Published: June 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

Cornwall: a brief history

Published: June 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Francos Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism

Published: June 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

Listed in: History

The myth and memory of Waterloo

Published: June 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Coffee history: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Caesar: Death of a Dictator Trailer

Published: June 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes

Published: June 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Living through the Troubles

Published: June 14, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: History

What can we learn from the fall of Rome?

Published: June 13, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the overlooked bonds between mother & daughter

Published: June 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds

Listed in: History

Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2

Published: June 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 20 seconds

Listed in: History

Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: History

Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century

Published: June 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 39 seconds

Listed in: History

Historical echoes of the Ukraine war

Published: June 7, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Plato: the worlds greatest philosopher?

Published: June 6, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

How women helped sustain the slave trade

Published: June 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

The fall and rise of Henry III

Published: June 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know

Published: June 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Plot or paranoia? The Amboyna conspiracy trial

Published: June 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome

Published: May 31, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Amazing archaeological discoveries that trounce Indiana Jones

Published: May 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

Living the life of luxury with the Persians & Greeks

Published: May 29, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds

Listed in: History

Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world

Published: May 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Mountaineering on Everest: everything you want to know

Published: May 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

The History Extra podcast tell us what you think

Published: May 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

Is history too politicised?

Published: May 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: History

Six wives | 6. Katherine Parr

Published: May 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: History

Battling the British empire

Published: May 23, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

William the Conquerors invasion plans

Published: May 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Did Black Death trigger the rise of Europe?

Published: May 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Chartism: everything you wanted to know

Published: May 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Three young queens: the unexpected bonds between Renaissance royals

Published: May 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Six wives | 5. Catherine Howard

Published: May 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Ramesses II: Egypts greatest pharaoh?

Published: May 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds

Listed in: History

Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes

Published: May 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?

Published: May 14, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know

Published: May 13, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: History

Everyday life in East Germany

Published: May 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 25 seconds

Listed in: History

Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves

Published: May 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: History

Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe

Published: May 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Keeping time: a watchmakers history

Published: May 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

Native Americans: a new history

Published: May 7, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

Listed in: History

Goths: everything you wanted to know

Published: May 6, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 16 seconds

Listed in: History

How (and how not) to stage a coronation

Published: May 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Six wives | 3. Jane Seymour

Published: May 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

Queen Charlotte: real history behind the new Bridgerton series

Published: May 2, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries

Published: May 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict

Published: April 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 29, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain

Published: April 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

Six wives | 2. Anne Boleyn

Published: April 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 26 seconds

Listed in: History

The Waco siege: an American tragedy

Published: April 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager

Published: April 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust

Published: April 23, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: History

Crusader states: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 44 seconds

Listed in: History

How women were excluded from sport and fought back

Published: April 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 40 seconds

Listed in: History

Six wives | 1. Catherine of Aragon

Published: April 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

thelfld: Mother of the English

Published: April 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science

Published: April 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2 the big questions: the Big Three

Published: April 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

Listed in: History

Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 44 seconds

Listed in: History

Black Douglas: a not so dastardly bushranger?

Published: April 13, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

The KGBs secret war on the west

Published: April 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: History

Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s

Published: April 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age

Published: April 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 31 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2 the big questions: the early years of the conflict

Published: April 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

Nuclear apocalypse in Britain

Published: April 6, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

Wild urban spaces: a history

Published: April 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Boudicas rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire

Published: April 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

What did the Tudors wear?

Published: April 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

Listed in: History

WW2 the big questions: the build up

Published: April 3, 2023, 10:35 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes

Listed in: History

British castles: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: History

The mindset behind the Holocaust

Published: March 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds

Listed in: History

Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain

Published: March 29, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds

Listed in: History

The man who almost discovered the double helix

Published: March 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliots unconventional life

Published: March 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: History

George VIs Nazi dilemma

Published: March 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: History

The Seven Years War: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 26, 2023, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 55 seconds

Listed in: History

Six Wives Trailer

Published: March 25, 2023, midnight
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: History

Patriarchys long roots

Published: March 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: History

Disciplining the scum of the Earth

Published: March 23, 2023, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer

Published: March 22, 2023, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

Listed in: History

Science & religion: a story of war or harmony?

Published: March 21, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: History

The North: from Bede to Lowry

Published: March 20, 2023, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: History

Paganism: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 19, 2023, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: History

Eat for victory: WW2s British Restaurants

Published: March 17, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds

Listed in: History

Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York

Published: March 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession

Published: March 15, 2023, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat

Published: March 14, 2023, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters

Published: March 13, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History

Britains WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 29 seconds

Listed in: History

Treasure, heritage & returning artefacts

Published: March 11, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 22 seconds

Listed in: History

Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society

Published: March 10, 2023, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: History

Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community

Published: March 9, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds

Listed in: History

The Iraq War, 20 years on

Published: March 8, 2023, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: History

Volcanoes & nuclear armageddon: humanitys long relationship with nature

Published: March 7, 2023, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 53 seconds

Listed in: History

Meeting the Mughals: Englands disastrous first embassy to India

Published: March 6, 2023, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval women: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 5, 2023, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 5 seconds

Listed in: History

Historys greatest cities: Prague Trailer

Published: March 4, 2023, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds

Listed in: History

Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile

Published: March 3, 2023, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: History

The Tudor who hiked North America

Published: March 2, 2023, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 1 second

Listed in: History

Dick Whittington: from medieval merchant to panto hero

Published: March 1, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 3 seconds

Listed in: History

Pirate flags & wedding gowns: a patchwork of a Victorian life

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 54 seconds

Listed in: History

Oscar Wilde on trial

Published: Feb. 27, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: History

Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 26, 2023, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 58 seconds

Listed in: History

History's greatest cities | Berlin

Published: Feb. 25, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: History

The book that transformed medieval England

Published: Feb. 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds