Articles by History Extra podcast

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Diarmaid Ferriter speaks about the event and its tangled legacy today To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday

In our new series marking the centenary of the BBC, David Hendy looks back at the innovation and idealism that marked its first decade

Duncan Stone argues that classism and racism have held back England’s summer sport for decades

Dan Jones takes listeners on a journey through early medieval Europe, beginning with the Roman empire in a state of collapse, rocked by a changing climate and mass migration.

Martin Sixsmith explores the role of psychology in the Cold War, from paranoia and propaganda to unpredictable leaders

Sarah Churchwell answers listener questions about the “roaring twenties” in the United States

Shaun Wallace discusses how newspaper adverts for fugitive enslaved people can be used to reconstruct the stories those who escaped slavery

Robert Harris speaks about Munich: The Edge of War, the new Netflix film adapted from his 2017 historical novel

Roger Luckhurst explores how the ever-evolving Gothic genre has been used to explore society’s anxieties over time

Natalie Livingstone chronicles the unexplored lives of the women who shaped the famous Rothschild banking dynasty