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Everything you wanted to know about… | Podcast series

Discover all of the podcasts in our 'everything you wanted to know about' series, from the Tudors and Victorians to D-Day and the Normans. Featuring more than 100 interviews with expert historians and archaeologists including Tracy Borman, Miles Russell, Peter Caddick-Adams and more...

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Pod Marc Morris WL

British castles: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Jeremy Black WL

The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Christian Wolmar WL

Railway history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Paul Craddock WL

General History

Surgical history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Matthew Taylor WL

World Cup history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Andrew Lambert WL

The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

Halloween monsters: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Halloween WL

General History

Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Roger Luckhurst WL

General History

Sci-fi history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Anne Murphy WL

General History

The Bank of England: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Hannah Cusworth WL

General History

Black British history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Helen Nicholson WL

The Knights Templar: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Rhodri JJ WL

The CIA: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Kate Cooper WL

Roman women: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Vincent Cannato WL

Ellis Island: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Paul Cartledge WL

Troy: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Sean McGlynn WL

Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Mark Glancey WL

Hollywood history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Catriona Pennell WL

First World War

First World War poets: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Stephen Tuffnell WL

Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Anwesha Roy WL

The partition of India: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Bill Sillar WL

The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Helen Carr WL

The Peasants’ Revolt: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Susannah Wright WL

General History

British schools and education: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Kevin Mcdonald WL

The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod John Jacob Woolf WL

The Edwardians: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Nell Darby WL

General History

Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Owen Davies WL

General History

Witchcraft: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Jonathan Fennell WL

Second World War

WW2’s desert war: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Clare Jackson WL

The Restoration: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Paul Beaver WL

War in the air: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Emily Ward WL

Medieval childhood: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Helen Parr WL

The Falklands War: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Tracy Borman WL

General History

Royal residences: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Mark Crail Ws

General History

Trade unions: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pod Lucy Santos WL

General History

The history of beauty: everything you wanted to know

Pod Mike Rapport WL

The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know

Pod Christian Cooljmans WL

The Franks: everything you wanted to know

Pod Benjamin Carp WL

The American Revolutionary War: everything you wanted to know

Pod Mike Pitts WL

General prehistory

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two)

Pod Mike Pitts WL

General prehistory

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one)

Pod Sarah Churchwell WL

America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know

Pod Kate Jamieson WL

General History

The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know

Pod Murray Pittock WL

The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know

Richard Bosworth answers listener questions on the authoritarian ideology that emerged in Italy a century ago. (Image by Getty Images)

Fascism: everything you wanted to know

As we approach the 1900th anniversary of the building of Hadrian’s Wall, Rob Collins answers listener questions on the Roman fortification. (Image by Getty Images)

Hadrian’s Wall: everything you wanted to know

Christine Kinealy answers listener questions on the devastating famine that struck Ireland in the mid-19th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Irish famine: everything you wanted to know

Pod Michael Brown WL

Anglo-Scottish border wars: everything you wanted to know

Michael Goodman tackles listener questions and popular search queries on the history of spying and intelligence. (Image by Getty Images)

Espionage history: everything you wanted to know

Joyce Tyldesley answers listener questions on ancient Egypt’s royal rulers. (Image by Getty Images)

Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know

Wayne Dooling answers listener questions on South Africa’s Apartheid regime. (Image by Getty Images)

Apartheid: everything you wanted to know

Sophie Hay answers listener questions on the Roman city that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79. (Image by Getty Images)

Pompeii: everything you wanted to know

Saul Dubow responds to listener questions on Victorian Britain’s bitter conflict with two southern African republics. (Image by Getty Images)

The Boer War: everything you wanted to know

Matthew Stevens tackles listener questions on the history of the Welsh regions during the Middle Ages

Medieval Wales: everything you wanted to know

Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know

A portrait of a member of the Borgias family

The Borgias: everything you wanted to know

Robert Hutchinson answers your questions on England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. (Image by Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: everything you wanted to know

Food on a platter

Food history: everything you wanted to know

Chris Williams responds to your questions on law enforcement in Britain over the past 300 years. (Image by Getty Images)

British police history: everything you wanted to know

Dr Rory Naismith answers listener questions on Britain in the early Middle Ages. (Image from Getty Images)

Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know

Martin Johnes tackles listener questions about the history of modern Wales, from the Industrial Revolution to devolution. (Image from Getty Images)

Modern Welsh history: everything you wanted to know

Everything you wanted to know about the church in medieval England – Nicholas Orme podcast

The church in medieval England: everything you wanted to know

Sir Tom Devine responds to listener questions on the causes and consequences of one of the most notorious episodes of Scottish history. (Image by Getty Images)

The Highland Clearances: everything you wanted to know

Historian Catherine Fletcher responds to listener questions about the infamous Italian family, from their role in the Renaissance to stories of dark deeds and scandalous affairs. (Image by Getty Images)

The Medici: everything you wanted to know

Everything you wanted to know about Canadian history

Canadian history: everything you wanted to know

Ritchie Robertson responds to listener questions on the intellectual and philosophical movement that swept Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. (Image by Getty Images)

The Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know

Tim Maltin answers listener questions about the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. (Image by Getty Images)

Titanic: everything you wanted to know

Victorian London prison, Newgate. Prisoners in the exercise yard. Engraving by Gustave Doré, 1872 (Photo by Getty Images)

British prisons: everything you wanted to know

Rebecca Simon responds to your questions on the ‘golden age’ of piracy, when bands of buccaneers menaced the high seas, preying on merchant vessels.

The golden age of piracy: everything you wanted to know

Everything you wanted to know about the Anarchy | HistoryExtra Podcast

The Anarchy: everything you wanted to know

Professor Michael Wert responds to listener questions and online search queries about the samurai of feudal Japan. (Image by Getty Images)

Samurai: everything you wanted to know

Mark Atwood Lawrence responds to readers’ questions about the United States’ failure to stem the advance of communism in Vietnam. (Image by Getty Images)

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

Historian Timothy Hickman answers listener questions about the ban on booze in 1920s America, from speakeasies and moonshine to Al Capone’s shady dealings. (Image by Getty Images)

Prohibition: everything you wanted to know

Life in the workhouse podcast with Peter Higginbotham

Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know

Alex von Tunzelmann responds to your questions on the 1956 Suez Crisis: a diplomatic debacle that dealt a serious blow to Britain’s standing in the postwar world. (Image by Getty Images)

The Suez Crisis: everything you wanted to know

Professor Matthew Restall tackles listener questions and popular search queries about the central American civilisation. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

The Maya: everything you wanted to know

Pod Judith Herrin WL

The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know

Nicola Tallis responds to listener questions about the Elizabethans, from the religious rifts of the era to the fate of Queen Elizabeth I’s royal jewels. (Image by Getty Images)

The Elizabethans: everything you wanted to know

Peter Wilson responds to your questions on the brutal conflict that convulsed central Europe in the 17th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Thirty Years’ War: everything you wanted to know

Michael Goodman responds to your questions on the decades of geopolitical tension that shaped relations between east and west in the second half of the 20th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

Shushma Malik discusses some of the most admired and reviled Roman emperors, and considers whether the legends surrounding them stand up to scrutiny. (Image by Getty Images)

The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know

The space race: everything you wanted to know

The space race: everything you wanted to know

Dr Hugh Willmott responds to listener questions on Henry VIII’s suppression of the monasteries in the 16th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Dissolution: everything you wanted to know

Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley responds to listener questions about everyday life in ancient Egypt, from governance to dental care and cat mummies. (Image by Getty Images)

Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know

Illustration of the Black Death from the Chroicles of Gilles Li Muisis (1272-1352), Abbaye Saint-Martin de Tournai (Photo by Alamy)

The Black Death: everything you wanted to know

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries about one of the dominant powers of the ancient world, the Persian empire. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know

Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and listener questions about Britain in the 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)

Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know

Jerry Brotton on the Renaissance. (Image by Getty Images)

The Renaissance: everything you wanted to know

Emma Griffin tackles questions about Britain’s Industrial Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Lauren Johnson responds to listener questions about the Wars of the Roses. (Image by Getty Images)

The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know

Did Cromwell ban mince pies? And why does Santa wear red? George Goodwin responds to listener questions and internet search queries on festive history. (Image by Getty Images)

The history of Christmas: everything you wanted to know

Ted Vallance on the Glorious Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

The Glorious Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Zainab Bahrani on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know

Paul Edmondson answers listener questions on the life and work of England’s most famous playwright. (Image by Getty Images)

Shakespeare: everything you wanted to know

Karen Jones on the Wild West

The Wild West: everything you wanted to know

Robert Service answers key questions about the Russian Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know

Mary Fissell on the history of medicine. (Image by Getty Images)

The history of medicine: everything you wanted to know

The Regency era: everything you wanted to know

Marisa Linton on the French Revolution.

The French Revolution: Everything you need to know

Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

The history of Japan: everything you wanted to know

Head and shoulders of a sculpted model of a female Neanderthal

General prehistory

The Neanderthals: everything you wanted to know

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

The East India Company: everything you wanted to know

A suffragette march

The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know

King Arthur and a hand holding the sword Excalibur.

The legends of King Arthur: everything you wanted to know

Isabella of France welcomed by her brother Charles IV to Paris. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Hundred Years’ War: everything you wanted to know

Pectoral ornament in the form of a double headed serpent, Aztec/ Mixtec, c 1400/1521 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Aztecs: everything you wanted to know

Male and female militia fighters on the march at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Spanish Civil War: everything you wanted to know

View of East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Photo by Library of Congress)

The American Civil War: everything you wanted to know

Tholos of Delphi in Greece. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, 1469. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval queens: everything you wanted to know

A reenactment of the Battle of Nantwich (1644) by members of the Sealed Knot. (Photo by Getty Images)

British battlefields: everything you wanted to know

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King

The civil rights movement: everything you wanted to know

Young Nazi supporters wave flags in the Saar territory in Germany, 1934. (Photo by Getty Images)

Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

The Civil War: everything you wanted to know

First Crusade, Siege of Antioch, c1097,14th-century illustration (Photo by Getty Images)

The crusades: everything you wanted to know

Cloisters at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (Photo by Dreamstime)

The English Reformation: everything you wanted to know

Animal head-post from the Oseburg ship burial, from the Viking Ships Museum's collection in Oslo, 9th century (Photo by Alamy)

The Vikings: everything you wanted to know

Victorian family. (Photo by Sean Sexton-Getty images)

The Victorians: everything you wanted to know

Callanish standing stone circle, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. (Photo by Dreamstime)

General prehistory

British prehistory: everything you wanted to know

American soldiers head towards the French coast, June 1944. (Photo by Getty Images)

D-Day: everything you wanted to know