Podcast Episodes

Conspiracy | Series 2 Trailer

Who shot JFK? Have the Knights Templar been hiding the Holy Grail? And what really landed at Roswell in 1947? In the second series of Conspiracy from HistoryExtra, Rob Attar investigates some of hist…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

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

Episode 1879

From the Huns, Mongols and Magyars to the Turks, Xiongnu, Scythians and Goths, these nomadic people of the Eurasian steppes built long-lasting empires, facilitated global trade via the Silk Road and …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

Episode 1878

Having run away from a life of slavery as a young man, Frederick Douglass went on to forge his own path as an abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman. In this 'Life of the Week' episode, Clare Ell…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

The hidden history of women in intelligence

Episode 1877

From women who worked in vital wartime intelligence centres like Bletchley Park to those who parachuted behind enemy lines as part of SOE operations, Helen Fry introduces the women who dealt in intel…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know

Episode 1876

From the groundbreaking novels of Virginia Woolf to the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, the Bloomsbury Group shook up British culture in the early 20th century. In conversation with Rebecca…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

'Madness' and the supernatural

Episode 1875

The birth of psychiatry in the early-19th century changed the way that 'madness' was understood, with beliefs in the supernatural becoming evidence of insanity. Charlotte Hodgman spoke to Professor O…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Boston Tea Party | 5. A complex legacy

Episode 1874

Why does the Boston Tea Party still loom so large in the popular story of American independence today? Is it right that it holds so much significance? And what has been the impact of the protest in g…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Why were the Romantics obsessed with Mount Vesuvius?

Episode 1873

The Romantics were obsessed with Mount Vesuvius, climbing up to peer into its bubbling depths, and even using it as a metaphor to describe some of the tumultuous changes revolution was wreaking in Eu…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Life of the Week: Stalin

Episode 1872

Josef Stalin is a titan of modern history – and one of its most infamous leaders, responsible for the deaths of millions. Danny Bird spoke to Robert Service to chart the Soviet tyrant's life, from hi…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

James Longstreet: Confederate Judas

Episode 1871

James Longstreet spent the American Civil War as one of the leading generals in the Confederate Army. But after 1865 he became a supporter of reconstruction and black voting, even leading an interrac…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago