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History Extra podcast

Podcasts · History

History Extra podcast

1,651 episodes · 16 with AI analysis

AI Intelligence · across all analyzed episodes

People · top 20

Companies · top 13

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)National Army Museum Adobe Daily Express Microsoft Royal Artillery GoFundMe Yale University Press Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)Fowler Museum University of East Anglia Wallis Collection British Museum

Topics · top 10

Elizabethan London literary sceneProfessional playwriting and dramaGrammar school educational reformPrinting press and publishing industryStationers Company and early copyrightWomen writers and closet dramaLiterary rivalries and public disputesTravel writing as emerging genreTrue crime and cunny-catching pamphletsShakespeare and University Wits

Analyzed Episodes

Apr 12, 2026

How Tudor London inspired literary genius

Elizabethan London literary sceneProfessional playwriting and dramaGrammar school educational reform

Apr 9, 2026

Stalin's murderous vendetta against Trotsky

Leon Trotsky biography and political significanceStalin's consolidation of power and elimination of rivalsSoviet internal exile and political persecution

Apr 11, 2026

The rise of Alfred the Great

Viking Great Heathen Army tactics and strategy (865-878 AD)Anglo-Saxon kingdom political structure and governanceReligious identity as cultural marker in medieval conflict

Apr 7, 2026

A new take on the battle of Hastings

Battle of Hastings (1066)King Harold military strategyAnglo-Saxon naval power and fleets

Apr 2, 2026

How to stay healthy in the Middle Ages

Humoral Theory and Medieval MedicinePreventative Health Practices in the Middle AgesMedieval Hygiene and Sanitation Standards

Mar 31, 2026

Europe's Muslim history

Islamic history in medieval Spain (Al-Andalus) and the Umayyad CaliphateEuropean textbook bias and historiographical erasure of Muslim contributionsThe Cordoban Caliphate's scientific and medical innovations (Ibn Sina, Al-Zahrawi, Al-Razi)

Mar 22, 2026

Elizabeth’s enemies: plots, rivals and the Spanish Armada

Mary Queen of Scots imprisonment and executionBabington Plot of 1586Spanish Armada invasion threat

Mar 18, 2026

The devastating Jewish revolt against the Roman empire

First Jewish-Roman War (66-74 CE)Roman Imperial Military StrategyJewish Factionalism and Internal Conflict

Mar 20, 2026

Britain and the looted African gold

Colonial Looting and British Imperial PlunderAshanti Kingdom History and Gold TradeMuseum Deaccessioning Laws and Repatriation Policy

Mar 3, 2026

Juana Inés de la Cruz: life of the week

Women's intellectual history in colonial Latin AmericaGender and power in 17th-century Spanish colonial societyConvent life and female autonomy in early modern Europe

Mar 4, 2026

The hidden history behind Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore history and constructionLakota Nation land rights and the Fort Laramie TreatyGutzon Borglum biography and artistic legacy

Mar 6, 2026

A poetic history of England

Medieval Dream Poetry and Grief RepresentationBlack Death Social History Through LiteratureBroadside Ballads as Popular Culture and Political Satire

Mar 8, 2026

Young Elizabeth I: the making of a queen

Anne Boleyn's execution and its impact on Elizabeth's early lifeHenry VIII's disappointment with Elizabeth's gender and illegitimacyElizabeth's multilingual education and intellectual development

Mar 11, 2026

Trailblazers and troublemakers: women who made French history

Women's exclusion from historical narrativesFrench medieval and early modern women's historyGender expression and cross-dressing in historical context

Mar 9, 2026

Why Britons rejected fascism in the 1930s

British Fascism and Oswald Mosley's British Union of FascistsInterwar European Authoritarianism (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin)Democratic Institutions and Civic Participation

Mar 10, 2026

Vladimir Lenin: life of the week

Vladimir Lenin biography and early lifeRussian Revolution of 1917 (February and October)Bolshevik Party organization and factionalism