Videos from the team at HistoryExtra, home of BBC History Magazine and the HistoryExtra podcast

A guide to Michelangelo: life, career & famous work | HistoryExtra Podcast
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A guide to Michelangelo: life, career & famous work | HistoryExtra Podcast
Ben Mcintyre on the Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London | HistoryExtra Podcast
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Ben Mcintyre on the Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London | HistoryExtra Podcast
Saladin's life, reputation and legacy | HistoryExtra Podcast
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Saladin's life, reputation and legacy | HistoryExtra Podcast
The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory? | HistoryExtra Podcast
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The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory? | HistoryExtra Podcast
The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees | HistoryExtra podcast
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The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees | HistoryExtra podcast
How ancient Romans tackled a DEADLY plague
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How ancient Romans tackled a DEADLY plague
False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices | HistoryExtra Podcast
32:08
False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices | HistoryExtra Podcast
Beowulf: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra Podcast
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Beowulf: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra Podcast
Swashbuckling Crusaders: the pirates who sailed the Holy Land's high seas
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Swashbuckling Crusaders: the pirates who sailed the Holy Land's high seas
Toilets through time | 10-minute tour, from sponges on sticks to medieval communal privies
10:41
Toilets through time | 10-minute tour, from sponges on sticks to medieval communal privies
Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk | HistoryExtra podcast
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Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk | HistoryExtra podcast
How to recreate a popular medieval love spell
2:50
How to recreate a popular medieval love spell
The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know | HistoryExtra podcast
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The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know | HistoryExtra podcast
How have games shaped warfare through history?
4:03
How have games shaped warfare through history?
Hidden labs & torture attics: SECRETS of British royal palaces | HistoryExtra podcast
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Hidden labs & torture attics: SECRETS of British royal palaces | HistoryExtra podcast
Catherine de' Medici: Historian Answers Questions On Her Life & Rule | HistoryExtra Podcast
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Catherine de' Medici: Historian Answers Questions On Her Life & Rule | HistoryExtra Podcast
The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra podcast
42:08
The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra podcast
Who stole the Mona Lisa?
4:41
Who stole the Mona Lisa?
What was the Grand Tour's greatest scandal?
3:54
What was the Grand Tour's greatest scandal?
Top 5 figures of the Crusades | A historian's pick
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Top 5 figures of the Crusades | A historian's pick
The third queen Henry VIII wanted to behead
9:23
The third queen Henry VIII wanted to behead
Katherine Parr: life and legacy | HistoryExtra podcast
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Katherine Parr: life and legacy | HistoryExtra podcast
Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra podcast
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Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra podcast
Athelstan: a king greater than Alfred?
9:33
Athelstan: a king greater than Alfred?
How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood? | HistoryExtra podcast
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How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood? | HistoryExtra podcast
Medieval keep fit | HistoryExtra podcast
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Medieval keep fit | HistoryExtra podcast
Did Catherine de' Medici orchestrate the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
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Did Catherine de' Medici orchestrate the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra podcast
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British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra podcast
Why is the guillotine a symbol of the French Revolution?
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Why is the guillotine a symbol of the French Revolution?
What was the Victorian police force like?
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What was the Victorian police force like?