History Extra podcast

Suzannah Lipscomb reveals why she thinks 16th-century royal influencer Marguerite de Navarre deserves to be better remembered today

Kevin MacDonald responds to your queries on the great power that dominated swathes of west Africa from the 13th to 17th centuries

In the latest instalment of our series marking the centenary of the BBC, David Hendy discusses the political pressures that defined the 1970s and 80s

In the third episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove looks at how far Britain was a militarised state between the third and fifth centuries. Historian Dr Rob Collins explains how Roman Britain was set up to support the military machine of the wider empire, and what might have happened when that military machine began to falter.

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Simon Jenkins considers the enigmatic story of the Celts, and explores what the term ‘Celtic’ means today

Sally Smith shares the stories of the fascinating female pioneers of British aviation

Claire Jowitt discusses the discovery of a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Norfolk

John Jacob Woolf answers listener questions on Edwardian Britain, from suffrage and labour movements to leisure time and childhood

Clifford Williamson charts the twists and turns of the conspiracy that sparked a constitutional crisis – and brought down a president

In the second episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove investigates what life was like for people living in the later Roman era, in the third and fourth centuries. He speaks to Professor Will Bowden to explore the inequalities that existed between the haves and have-nots, and how far the stresses and strains that were at play in the wider empire impacted on everyday life in Britain.

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