Podcast Episodes

Renaissance beauty regimes

Episode 1728

Appearance was everything in the Renaissance – a way to make a good marriage and gain power and influence. But what if you fell short of the era’s exacting beauty ideals? Speaking with Charlotte Hodg…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

AI: An ancient nightmare?

Episode 1727

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Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard

Episode 1726

Known as “Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard”, Kitty Marshall was a cricket-ball-wielding, jujitsu-trained suffragette ready to go fist-to-fist with the police in her fight for votes for women. Historian and …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

The NHS: everything you wanted to know

Episode 1725

How did the British public respond when the NHS was first founded 75 years ago? How have the roles of doctors and nurses changed in the decades since? And was there ever a ‘golden age’ of the Nationa…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Life in a WW2 tank regiment

Episode 1724

In military history, we often hear the stories of great battles and detailed strategic manoeuvres, but what was life like for the men responsible for executing these sweeping orders? Drawing on oral …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till

Episode 1723

When Mamie Till decided to display the bruised and beaten body of her son, 14-year-old Emmett Till, in an open casket funeral, she poured gasoline on the emerging Civil Rights movement in America. In…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

US Civil Rights: Fighting for freedom

In this HistoryExtra podcast series, we chart some of the key moments in the transformative history of the US Civil Rights movement. Expert historians share some of the movement's most recognisable s…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders

Episode 1722

In 1929, a sensational murder trial took place in Hungary. A group of women, all hailing from the same tiny village, stood accused of murdering dozens of men – including sons, lovers and husbands – o…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2

Episode 1721

Throughout the Second World War, the men of RAF Coastal Command took to the skies and valiantly defended Allied ships from German U-boats in the Atlantic. But despite the heroism of its crews, Coasta…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

UFO sightings: an otherworldly history

Episode 1720

A recent Nasa press conference detailing the American space agency’s research into UFO sightings sparked headlines across the globe about extraterrestrial visitors – but, as Dr David Clarke tells Mat…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago