HistoryExtra Long Reads

88 Episodes

1. How we found our bearings: the origins of the four compass points

   Published: 11/11/2024
2. Reading the runes: uncovering the everyday lives of the Vikings

   Published: 11/4/2024
3. Tales from history's toilets

   Published: 10/28/2024
4. Medieval England's political miracle

   Published: 10/20/2024
5. Dudley Clarke: the spy who hoodwinked Hitler

   Published: 10/13/2024
6. Henry VII: the king they couldn't kill

   Published: 10/6/2024
7. The suffragettes: masters of PR

   Published: 9/29/2024
8. Robert the Bruce: the man, the myth, the murderer

   Published: 9/22/2024
9. Oliver Cromwell's postal spies

   Published: 9/15/2024
10. Dark knights and crusading criminals

    Published: 9/8/2024
11. Women of the Greco-Persian Wars

    Published: 9/1/2024
12. Oradour-sur-Glane: one of WW2's most infamous massacres

    Published: 8/25/2024
13. From Tudor to Stuart: a brand new era?

    Published: 8/18/2024
14. The madcap Paris Olympics: how chaos nearly derailed the 1900 Games

    Published: 8/11/2024
15. The West Africa Squadron: Britain's war on slave ships

    Published: 8/4/2024
16. Club AD 130: a Roman holiday

    Published: 7/28/2024
17. Airborne assault: the spearhead of the D-Day invasion

    Published: 7/21/2024
18. The women behind Henry VIII's queens

    Published: 7/14/2024
19. The Normandy campaign's forgotten naval heroes

    Published: 7/7/2024
20. Victorian scandals: sex, sadism & sugared death

    Published: 6/30/2024