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
1066: who was the rightful king? (17.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Carthage: the making of Rome's monster
- Treachery, deceit and the death of the Tudor dynasty
- The Assassins: a reign of terror
- Victoria's secret love affair
- Æthelstan: England's colossus
- Hiroshima's atomic plague
- The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys
- Horses: medieval war machines
- Victorian boxing sensations
- Mary of Modena: a queen in the eye of a storm
- Art deco: designs for life
- Elizabeth I's forbidden love
- Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds
- Julius Caesar's funeral drama
- Live Aid at 40
- Inside the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain
- Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell
- The Ambassadors: painting on the precipice
- The women who shaped Malcolm X
- Spartacus: Rome's worst nightmare
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