History Extra podcast

Alice Loxton tells Ellie Cawthorne about the biting satire of Georgian printmakers, whose work pricked the pomposity of politicians and mocked the extravagance of the aristocracy

Marion Gibson explores what a 1580s witchcraft trial can reveal about poverty, social tensions and ordinary life in early modern England

Gordon Corera discusses the causes and consequences of the Iraq War, and how we should reflect on it two decades later

Peter Frankopan unpicks humanity’s complex relationship with climate across the millennia

The first English ambassador arrived in Mughal India in 1616, desperate to establish a trade treaty. But, as Nandini Das reveals, England’s hopes would soon be shattered

Eleanor Janega busts popular myths surrounding women in the Middle Ages, revealing how society was more open-minded than we might initially expect

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Candice Millard recounts the trials and tribulations of a gruelling Victorian expedition to locate the source of the River Nile, from deadly diseases to bitter rivalries

Dean Snow tells the story of an Englishman who embarked on an extraordinary 3,600-mile trek across North America in the 1560s

Michael McCarthy tells the story of the real-life Lord Mayor of London who inspired the famous pantomime character