History Extra podcast

Professor David Carpenter responds to listener questions on the great medieval charter and its 800-year-long legacy

Chris Harding gives a lecture on Japan’s attempts to carve out a place for itself in a world dominated by western power and cultureIn a lecture he delivered at our 2019 Chester History Weekend

We speak to historian Camilla Townsend, who recently won the Cundill History Prize for her book Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Simon Hall explores why Fidel Castro’s visit to New York City in 1960 shaped the rest of the decade.

Sujit Sivasundaram offers a new perspective on the expansion of the British empire across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Giles Tremlett discusses how more than 35,000 volunteers from across the globe fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War

How did James II’s replacement by William of Orange as king of England, Scotland and Ireland change the course of British history? Ted Vallance responds to listener questions about the 1688 Glorious Revolution

Helen Berry gives a lecture on the extraordinary story of an 18th-century foundling, George King

Robert Colls discusses the importance of sport to English society over the past 200 years.

Kenneth Austin explores what impact the Reformation had on Europe’s Jewish communities.