History Extra podcast

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

The French Revolution: Everything you need to know

Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask

Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 1)

Ukraine: the WW2 roots of today's conflict

Tutankhamun | 1. Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb

The golden age of piracy: everything you wanted to know

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Old English: a quick guide

Naked statues, naughty gods & bad wine

Cold war mind games

The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know

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

How the Persians were written out of history

The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know

A Cold War killing?

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

The end of Roman Britain | 1. introduction, and a mystery mosaic

Medieval masterclass 1: Imperium 410-750

The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know

Greek myths: everything you wanted to know

Fascism in Britain

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end

Medieval myths

Sex lives of medieval people

The Black Death | 1. Introduction

The Normans: beyond 1066

The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know

Food history: everything you wanted to know

Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Japan, but were afraid to ask

Magna Carta and the Holocaust

William Blake: “artist or genius, or mystic, or madman”

Building utopia after WW1

The CIA: everything you wanted to know

Berlin’s tumultuous history

Suleyman the Magnificent: the 16th-century’s most powerful ruler?

The Jagiellonians: the dynasty that shaped central Europe

How nomads changed the world

Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties

Love in Georgian times

Coronavirus: a historical perspective

The Medici: everything you wanted to know

Aboriginal Australians: a modern history

Extinct animals of medieval Britain

The quest to find Alexander’s lost city

Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history

Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but were afraid to ask