Articles by History Extra podcast

Author, historian and museum director Neil MacGregor talks about his new BBC radio series, The Museums that Make Us

Keith Lowe talks to Matt Elton about how today’s conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be traced back to the Second World War

Hana Videen explores the Old English language and reveals what it can tell us about daily life at the time it was spoken

Marion Gibson discusses the methods and motivations of “witch finders” who sought out supernatural wrongdoing in Stuart Britain

Nigel Copsey discusses the British Union of Fascists and its leader, Oswald Mosley

Benjamin Carp tackles listener questions on the conflict that saw colonists in North America declare independence from the British

David Hendy takes us back to the 1930s, when the BBC became part of the British establishment

Screenwriter Jeb Stuart discusses the real history that inspired his new Netflix show Vikings: Valhalla

Rana Mitter discusses US president Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China – a visit that changed the course of the Cold War

Walter Reid argues that the much-derided prime minister, best known for appeasement, has been the victim of a historical stitch-up