Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUS Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
Episode 1729
Rosa Parks’ momentous refusal to vacate her bus seat for a white passenger in 1955 sparked a boycott that lasted for 381 days, and successfully press…
2 years, 7 months ago
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 ex…
2 years, 7 months ago
AI: An ancient nightmare?
Episode 1727
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2 years, 7 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 polic…
2 years, 7 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…
2 years, 7 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…
2 years, 7 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…
2 years, 8 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 historian…
2 years, 8 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 dozen…
2 years, 8 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 Atla…
2 years, 8 months ago