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Ellie Cawthorne

Ellie Cawthorne

I’m Ellie, HistoryExtra’s head of audio content. I oversee our expanding audio output, from planning and commissioning through to shaping the direction of the award-winning HistoryExtra podcast. I also run the podcast newsletter, contribute regularly to HistoryExtra magazine, and host a range of our live and virtual events. Most days, you’ll find me in conversation with historians, preparing future episodes or immersed in the newest historical releases. Since joining the team in 2016, I’ve worked across print, digital and audio, helping to develop HistoryExtra’s podcasting into one of the leading history audio platforms. I hold undergraduate and masters degrees in history from the University of Nottingham. Before joining HistoryExtra, I presented BBC Radio 4 documentaries on the history of student life and on the global trade in fake university essays. In 2019, I was named a FIPP Rising Star Award winner and selected as one of the PPA’s 30 under 30. Before joining the team, Ellie studied for undergraduate and masters degrees in history at the University of Nottingham. She has also presented documentaries on the history of student life and the multimillion-pound online trade in fake university essays for BBC Radio 4.

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Episode 4The Zong massacre | A murderous insurance scam that exposed slavery’s horrors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3The CRASH that bankrupted Britain | Everything you wanted to know about the South Sea Bubble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How did people understand pregnancy BEFORE modern medicine?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 2High society’s most DANGEROUS liaison | Henrietta Grosvenor and the king's brother. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's Greatest Scandals: secrets of the Georgian era. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1The MILLION pound forgery | Mrs Rudd vs the Perreaus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prophetesses & she-preachers of the 17th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mutilated corpses and undead mothers-in-law: vampire epidemics through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crystal balls & contacting angels: predicting the future in early modern England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bodies, bones & overflowing churchyards: a history of graveyards. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Is this England’s MOST GRUESOME castle?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did Queen Victoria and John Brown have a SECRET child?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Peel: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria's secret love affair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Renaissance: not such a golden age?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Third Reich's first genocide. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What happened in Shakespeare's "lost years"?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WATCHWhy did Georgian dresses cost as much as a townhouse?!. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Josephine Baker: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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