HistoryExtra Long Reads
Take a deep dive into the past as we bring you the very best of BBC History Magazine, Britain’s bestselling history magazine. With a new episode released every Monday, enjoy fascinating and enlightening articles from leading historical experts, covering a broad sweep of the centuries – from the scandals of Georgian society to the horrors of the First World War, revolutions, rebellions, and more.
Latest Episode
Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds (18.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Julius Caesar's funeral drama 11.08.2025
- Live Aid at 40 04.08.2025
- Inside the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain 28.07.2025
- Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell 21.07.2025
- The Ambassadors: painting on the precipice 14.07.2025
- The women who shaped Malcolm X 07.07.2025
- Spartacus: Rome's worst nightmare 30.06.2025
- Scotland's season of the witch 23.06.2025
- Why the Great Famine devastated Ireland 16.06.2025
- Why the ancient Egyptians worshipped wine 09.06.2025
- Matchless monsters: female murderers in early modern Britain 02.06.2025
- Richard III's remains: how science identified the king in the car park 26.05.2025
- Josephine Baker: dancer, activist, spy 19.05.2025
- Was Charles I a tyrant? 12.05.2025
- VE Day: was it really one big party? 05.05.2025
- Dangerous delights: Victorian Britain's cocaine habit 28.04.2025
- Mercia: the lost kingdom 21.04.2025
- Did Ronald Reagan 'make America great again'? 14.04.2025
- Fingers, frogs and fairies: fortune telling in early modern Britain 07.04.2025
- WW2 evacuees: when Britain escaped to the country 31.03.2025
