To the outside world, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were the golden couple, exemplars of traditional family values. Yet, as Jane Ridley reveals, behind the romanticised veneer, Albert's thirst for power was putting the marriage under intense pressure…
Were Stalin and Hitler more alike than we might first think? Laurence Rees argues that, despite their many differences and ideologies, the leaders of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were united by a common passion: to create their own warped version of a paradise on Earth...
How did the Viking Leif Erikson find his way right across the angry Atlantic with no navigational aids, and what did he hope to find there? Pat Kinsella explores the exploits of the very first Europeans to visit America...
Jonny Wilkes talks to Professor Emeritus Michael Hicks about how Richard III might have recovered his reputation, to some extent, and consigned the Tudors to historical obscurity...
Sutton Hoo's seventh-century treasures have fired up the imaginations of history lovers for decades, most recently inspiring new Netflix film The Dig. Professor Martin Carver talks to David Musgrove about the real history of the remarkable 1939 excavation…
From 'Bad King John' and the debauched Gaius Caligula to the "useless" Mary, Queen of Scots, historian Sean Lang rounds up nine of the worst kings and queens in history…
This week on the HistoryExtra podcast: Priya Satia explores how historians helped advance the British empire, only to later become critics of imperialism; David Hepworth tells the story of the British rock bands who took the United States by storm in the 1960s; and Frank McDonough discusses his new book charting the demise of Hitler's Germany from 1940–45...
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