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
Hiroshima's atomic plague (06.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys 29.09.2025
- Horses: medieval war machines 22.09.2025
- Victorian boxing sensations 15.09.2025
- Mary of Modena: a queen in the eye of a storm 08.09.2025
- Art deco: designs for life 01.09.2025
- Elizabeth I's forbidden love 25.08.2025
- Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds 18.08.2025
- 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
