Historian Helen Birkett explores communication networks and the spread of information and news in the medieval era. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Historian Helen Birkett explores communication networks and the spread of information and news in the medieval era. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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News in the Middle Ages

As COVID-19 dominates the news, Laura Spinney draws historical parallels with other pandemics in history and asks what we might learn from disease outbreaks in the past. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

As COVID-19 dominates the news, Laura Spinney draws historical parallels with other pandemics in history and asks what we might learn from disease outbreaks in the past. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Coronavirus: a historical perspective

Simon Jenkins talks about his new BBC radio programme, Wales: A 20th-century Tragedy?, which explores the difficulties faced by the country in recent history, and offers some opinions on its future. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Simon Jenkins talks about his new BBC radio programme, Wales: A 20th-century Tragedy?, which explores the difficulties faced by the country in recent history, and offers some opinions on its future. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Wales’s turbulent 20th century

Priyamvada Gopal speaks about her book Insurgent Empire, which explores opposition to British colonial rule both within the empire and in Britain itself. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Priyamvada Gopal speaks about her book Insurgent Empire, which explores opposition to British colonial rule both within the empire and in Britain itself. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Resistance in the British empire

Hadley Freeman speaks to us about her quest to uncover her family’s history through some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th&nbsp;century. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Hadley Freeman speaks to us about her quest to uncover her family’s history through some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th&nbsp;century. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history

Stonemason Andrew Ziminski talks about some of Britain’s most impressive buildings and monuments. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Stonemason Andrew Ziminski talks about some of Britain’s most impressive buildings and monuments. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Written in stone

Frank Dikötter discusses his new book How to Be a Dictator, which explores the malevolent careers of eight 20th-century rulers. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Frank Dikötter discusses his new book How to Be a Dictator, which explores the malevolent careers of eight 20th-century rulers. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Dictators explained

Historian Rachel B Hermann talks about her recent book No Useless Mouth, which explores how food and hunger played a critical role in the story of the American Revolutionary era. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Historian Rachel B Hermann talks about her recent book No Useless Mouth, which explores how food and hunger played a critical role in the story of the American Revolutionary era. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Food and war

The author Francesca Wade talks to us about her new book Square Haunting, which tells the stories of five remarkable women – among them Virginia Woolf and Dorothy L Sayers – who all lived on the same London square in the interwar years. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

The author Francesca Wade talks to us about her new book Square Haunting, which tells the stories of five remarkable women – among them Virginia Woolf and Dorothy L Sayers – who all lived on the same London square in the interwar years. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

London’s trailblazing women

Archaeologist David Petts and Lisa Wilkins of DigVentures discuss an extraordinary Viking-era discovery that’s been made on the monastic site of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. The conversation also covers the latest trends in archaeological excavations and the broader history of the island. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Archaeologist David Petts and Lisa Wilkins of DigVentures discuss an extraordinary Viking-era discovery that’s been made on the monastic site of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. The conversation also covers the latest trends in archaeological excavations and the broader history of the island. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Secrets of Lindisfarne

Elma Brenner of the Wellcome Library examines the state of healthcare in the Middle Ages and reveals some unusual remedies that were offered for people with injuries or diseases. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Elma Brenner of the Wellcome Library examines the state of healthcare in the Middle Ages and reveals some unusual remedies that were offered for people with injuries or diseases. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Medieval medicine

On the 200th anniversary of the Cato Street Conspiracy, Stephen Bates examines a failed attempt to murder the entire British cabinet in February 1820. He also explores the background and aftermath of this violent plot. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

On the 200th anniversary of the Cato Street Conspiracy, Stephen Bates examines a failed attempt to murder the entire British cabinet in February 1820. He also explores the background and aftermath of this violent plot. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Georgian terrorists: the Cato Street Conspiracy

Historian Eloise Moss, author of&nbsp;Night Raiders, explores a century of home intrusion in Britain, from the cat burglar phenomenon to Cold War espionage. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Historian Eloise Moss, author of&nbsp;Night Raiders, explores a century of home intrusion in Britain, from the cat burglar phenomenon to Cold War espionage. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Burglary: a modern history

Frank McDonough discusses the first volume in his new two-part history of Nazi Germany. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Frank McDonough discusses the first volume in his new two-part history of Nazi Germany. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The rise of Hitler

The acclaimed popular historian and broadcaster Michael Wood talks to us about a photograph he discovered that links his family to the infamous Peterloo massacre of 1819. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

The acclaimed popular historian and broadcaster Michael Wood talks to us about a photograph he discovered that links his family to the infamous Peterloo massacre of 1819. Historyextra.com/podcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph

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