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HistoryExtra Podcast

The HistoryExtra podcast brings you history’s most exciting stories and fascinating conversations with top historical experts. Episodes are released six times a week, covering subjects ranging from the ancient world and medieval era to the Second World War and the history behind today’s headlines

Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient thinkers and the history of madness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Witch trials and feuding queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Regency scandal and the history of canals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

India at war and mining accidents. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Terror in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Waterloo 200 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The real King John and the BBC in World War Two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of India and a terrible explosion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolfson History Prize 2015 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

VE Day special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Magna Carta and the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gallipoli and famine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Saladin and suffragettes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of immigration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III reburial special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Food from the past and the history of illegitimacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The life of Keynes and a trip to Ancient Greece. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Peasants’ Revolt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Amazing inventions and London after dark. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in the workhouse and British biographies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Debating British monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry VIII and Henry the Young King. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.