History Extra podcast

Dr Hugh Willmott responds to listener questions on Henry VIII’s suppression of the monasteries in the 16th century

Anna Malaika Tubbs shines a light on how Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin were influenced by their mothers.

Historian Carol Dyhouse talks about how women’s lives, dreams and loves have transformed in the decades since 1950, from the advent of the pill to the impact of second-wave feminism.

In the 19th century, devoted pet-owners established Britain’s first pet cemeteries. Dr Eric Tourigny explains what they tell us about Victorian attitudes to animals

Padraic X Scanlan discusses how slavery fuelled the British empire and explores the complicated motivations of abolitionists

Margarette Lincoln reveals how a century that saw plague, fire, revolution and civil war transformed England’s capital

Forgery was the dirty little secret of the Middle Ages. Levi Roach explains who counterfeited medieval manuscripts and why

Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley responds to listener questions about everyday life in ancient Egypt, from governance to dental care and cat mummies.

Author Kate Mosse talks about her historical novel The City of Tears, which transports readers back to the Wars of Religion in 16th-century France

Max Adams pieces together the evidence to uncover what happened after the fall of Roman Britain.