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HistoryExtra Long Reads — 158 episodes
How the Black Death devastated the Muslim world
The secret history behind the Odyssey
"War minus the shooting": football during the Cold War
Georgian Britain's most curious hoax
US at 250: the hard road to independence
Elizabeth II: the great survivor
The seven deadly sins: a medieval self-help guide
Lost stories from Pompeii
Nell Gwyn: England's mistress
The Asante gold: a tale of blood and plunder
How medieval mothers took back control
Rome's people power
The 'Iron Curtain' speech: why Churchill poked the Russian bear
Anne Boleyn’s image problem
Mob rule: the rise of the mafia
What Shakespearean food reveals about early modern England
A Victorian murder mystery
How empires end
Why Britain turned its back on the goose step
1066: not just the Norman Conquest
Medieval England’s terror of the living dead
How the SAS reinvented itself after WW2
How the Vikings menaced the Mediterranean
Victorian murders most female
The bizarre beginnings of the Winter Olympics
Air raids and arias: Britain's WW2 operatic obsession
How many Bayeux Tapestries were there?
Julius Caesar: he came, he saw, he crucified pirates...?
Margaret Beaufort: schemer or opportunist?
How Spain became a democracy
Beyond Jane Austen
Santa Claus vs Father Christmas
WW2's U-boat war: a theatre of hate?
Doctor, doctor: remarkable medieval medical cures
Spectral beasts and hounds from hell
The slippery truth of the Dreyfus Affair
1066: who was the rightful king?
Carthage: the making of Rome's monster
Treachery, deceit and the death of the Tudor dynasty
The Assassins: a reign of terror
Victoria's secret love affair
Æthelstan: England's colossus
Hiroshima's atomic plague
The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys
Horses: medieval war machines
Victorian boxing sensations
Mary of Modena: a queen in the eye of a storm
Art deco: designs for life
Elizabeth I's forbidden love
Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds
Julius Caesar's funeral drama
Live Aid at 40
Inside the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain
Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell
The Ambassadors: painting on the precipice
The women who shaped Malcolm X
Spartacus: Rome's worst nightmare
Scotland's season of the witch
Why the Great Famine devastated Ireland
Why the ancient Egyptians worshipped wine
Matchless monsters: female murderers in early modern Britain
Richard III's remains: how science identified the king in the car park
Josephine Baker: dancer, activist, spy
Was Charles I a tyrant?
VE Day: was it really one big party?
Dangerous delights: Victorian Britain's cocaine habit
Mercia: the lost kingdom
Did Ronald Reagan 'make America great again'?
Fingers, frogs and fairies: fortune telling in early modern Britain
WW2 evacuees: when Britain escaped to the country
500,000 years of African history
Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered
Marco Polo's adventures: lands of make believe?
The gunpowder plot: how to build a radical
The battle of Monte Cassino: a hill to die on
Why sex was a sin in the Middle Ages
Ptolemy XII: Cleopatra's father from hell
Keep smiling: the history of happiness
Winston Churchill: still the greatest?
Influencers of the medieval age
Thomas Cromwell: hero to zero
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Sarah Biffin: extraordinary artist
Lord Lucan: what really happened to the missing earl?
Gladiators: tales from the Roman arena
Audacious lady swindlers, con-women and hustlers
Edward of Warwick: the other prince in the tower
Mysterious mummification myths
Henry V's brutal youth
Pigs in the medieval city
How we found our bearings: the origins of the four compass points
Reading the runes: uncovering the everyday lives of the Vikings
Tales from history's toilets
Medieval England's political miracle
Dudley Clarke: the spy who hoodwinked Hitler
Henry VII: the king they couldn't kill
The suffragettes: masters of PR
Robert the Bruce: the man, the myth, the murderer
Oliver Cromwell's postal spies
Dark knights and crusading criminals
Women of the Greco-Persian Wars
Oradour-sur-Glane: one of WW2's most infamous massacres
From Tudor to Stuart: a brand new era?
The madcap Paris Olympics: how chaos nearly derailed the 1900 Games
The West Africa Squadron: Britain's war on slave ships
Club AD 130: a Roman holiday
Airborne assault: the spearhead of the D-Day invasion
The women behind Henry VIII's queens
The Normandy campaign's forgotten naval heroes
Victorian scandals: sex, sadism & sugared death
Roman slaves: the hidden lives of the empire's invisible labour force
Cumbria: the forgotten Anglo-Saxon kingdom
Emily Anderson: codebreaking pioneer
1924's British Empire Exhibition: the empire’s last hurrah?
Beastly Victorians: battling animal abuse in the 19th century
The battle of Meggido: ancient Egypt at war
WW1's Eastern Front: the forgotten theatre of war?
Life beyond the margins: female diarists through time
Knights! Camera! Action!: the Middle Ages on film
From the Knights Templar to the killing of JFK: the enduring power of conspiracy theories
Mary vs Elizabeth: sisters at war
Alexandria: the ancient world's greatest city
The war on grey squirrels
Medieval breastfeeding: an act of love
Death and alcohol on Victorian canals
Wonderlust: exploring the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Labour’s leap to power
Shakespeare: playing with the past
The Bloomsbury Group: the new radicals
Lady Killers: what murder scandals reveal about Victorian society
The long death of the Roman Republic
Walter Cowan: Britain's oldest commando
Matilda of Scotland: the queen behind the veil
The Boston Tea Party
Race across the Atlantic: 1969's wackiest escapade
The A to B of medieval travel
The Munich beer hall putsch: a botched coup?
Cartoon Century: Disney at 100
The crusade against the odds
The hellish WW2 battle for Italy
The siege of Calais: a medieval Stalingrad?
Empire on the brink
Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection
Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector
Dick Whittington: London’s golden boy
Unearthing Pompeii’s streets
Templars on trial
8 scandals that rocked Georgian Britain
Tudor traders: keep calm and ignore the Armada
Bannockburn: Scotland’s greatest victory
Could WW1 have ended in 1916?
Pax Romana: peace at the point of a sword
Roger Mortimer: king of folly
Britain’s love affair with the NHS
The original rogue heroes of the SAS
Ramesses II: the greatest pharaoh?
The forgotten history of Windrush
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