History Extra podcast

Writer Kate Mosse shares the historical inspirations behind her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, which takes readers across the 17th-century high seas

Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the complex methods of timekeeping in the medieval period – from burning candles and sundials, to water clocks and the astrolabe

From Carthage to Ravenna, Katherine Pangonis revisits five lost capitals of the historic Mediterranean

Lucy Robinson responds to your questions on Britain in the decade of Thatcherism, Live Aid, Bananarama and the rise of the yuppie

Popular historian Tom Holland explains how the Romans maintained the peace across their vast empire in the second century AD

Professor Andrew Lambert traces the key battles and encounters that shaped the Crimean War

As the National Health Service marks its 75th anniversary, Andrew Seaton charts why it has come to occupy a unique position in British society

Jane Malcolm-Davies stitches together the historical sources to reveal what really goes into recreating historical dress

Sir Hew Strachan reveals what life was like on Britain’s WW1 home front

Rachel Chrastil answers listener questions on a conflict that scarred the 19th century and had enormous consequences for the 20th