History Extra podcast

From transfusions of lambs’ blood to tooth replacements, Paul Craddock chronicles the strange history of transplant surgery

Professor David Stevenson answers listener questions on the 1919-20 conference that sought to resolve the aftermath of the First World War.

Neil Oliver discusses his new book, which takes us on a whistle-stop tour of global history.

Ian Keable describes some of the most audacious, bizarre and inventive pranks that fooled Georgian Britain

Nancy Goldstone discusses the 18th-century family saga of Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, and her equally formidable daughters

Clive Aslet traces Britain’s 2,000-year love affair with the country house, and what it reveals about the nation’s evolving political landscape.

Charlie English discusses what an extraordinary art collection reveals about Nazism’s impact on modernist art and people with mental illnesses.

Professor Jill Burke tackles listener questions on the Borgias, the Renaissance family associated with rumours of depravity and immorality.

Sarah Gristwood considers how the Tudor monarchs used medieval ideas about courtly love for their own ends

Tristram Hunt discusses Josiah Wedgwood; groundbreaking potter, enterprising businessman and political radical.