History Extra podcast
The latest news from the team behind BBC History Magazine - a popular History magazine. To find out more, visit www.historyextra.com
- Website
- http://www.historyextra.com/
- Description
- The latest news from the team behind BBC History Magazine - a popular History magazine. To find out more, visit www.historyextra.com
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-24 02:10
- last episode published
- 2025-02-24 00:00
- publication frequency
- 2.86 days
- Contributors
- Immediate Media
- Owner Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 2265
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- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
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| 2025-02-24 | In 1774, as Britain’s colonies in America teetered on the brink of revolution, one regiment was torn apart by the trials of a British army chaplain – Robert Newburgh – who was accused of having sex with another man. In this episode, John Gilbert McCurd... |
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| 2025-02-23 | Historically, how much would a British miner have earned for a hard day's work? Did women and children also work underground? And why were canaries taken down the pits? In conversation with Lauren Good, Professor Robert Colls explores the history of mi... |
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| 2025-02-21 |
Bruisers and bare knuckles: the brutal world of Victorian boxing Men fighting pumas. Brutal prize-fights in sacred chapels. A pair of sisters who could pack a punch. In Victorian Britain, boxing offered up edge-of-your-seat entertainment to all levels of society. A new Disney Plus show A Thousand Blows transports vi... |
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| 2025-02-19 | It's often proclaimed that British sea power was at its pinnacle in the years following the French and Napoleonic wars. But was this really a time when Britain 'ruled the waves'? And how did the rise of steam, development of international communication... |
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| 2025-02-18 | Jane Austen remains one of the most influential novelists in English literature. Her sharp social commentary, wit, and exploration of love, class, and gender continue to captivate readers. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the author's birth, an... |
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| 2025-02-17 | Born in 1781, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld grew up in a world convulsed by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. And her life proved to be as tempestuous as the age she inhabited. Wed to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia when s... |
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| 2025-02-16 | Why did Britain go to war with China in the 19th century to protect the interests of drug dealers? Speaking with Elinor Evans, Stephen R Platt discusses the web of economics, addiction, and imperial ambition that led to two devastating 19th-century war... |
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| 2025-02-14 | How cruel was Caligula? How depraved was Tiberius? And how monstrous was Nero? The dark reputations of these emperors owe a great deal to the Roman writer Suetonius, whose 121 AD work Lives of the Caesars offered intimate portraits of 12 rulers of Rome... |
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| 2025-02-12 | In the year 955, Eadwig became king of England – and, according to 10th-century sources, he celebrated in quite a salacious fashion. These stories claim that at his coronation feast, Eadwig left the hall to have a sex romp with his wife... and her moth... |
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| 2025-02-11 | The history books tell us that Magna Carta was sealed on 15 June 1215. But, according to Professor David Carpenter, that's not actually the date we should commemorate. He explains to David Musgrove why we ought to remember a different issue of the char... |
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