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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.

Shady deals & rigged elections: the changing face of corruption. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dracula at 125: what can a vampire tell us about Victorian Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eurovision: a political history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Disabled people in Tudor times. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Magellan: daring explorer or doomed failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kris Manjapra“Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The failings of emancipation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 6How the pandemic transformed societies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rebel ramblers of the Kinder Trespass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 5Death, sin & spirituality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Northman: bringing the Viking world to life on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“You are in their world, not in ours”: How The Northman makes the Viking Age real

Episode 4Medieval medical thinking. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The real Gentleman Jack: the secret life of Anne Lister, Britain's ‘first modern lesbian’

Burning down Ireland’s stately homes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 3Living through the plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1Introduction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prohibition: busting myths about the ban on booze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General History

Eugenics: a toxic history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Radical women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fascism in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespearean deaths: swordfights, snakebites & poison. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Three female civil rights pioneers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

America’s Cold War culture boom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cold war mind games. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escaping slavery in the American South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Munich: the real history behind the new film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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