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Did Roundheads and Cavaliers really dress so differently?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon's formative years and great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian at the Movies: The Monuments Men reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

5 Sam Willis video interviews with Suzannah Lipscomb, James Holland and other historians

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Refugees in Earls Court, Cardiff’s Land Girls, and the Glasgow Rent Strikes: BBC project to uncover life on the home front during WW1

First World War

Was Britain right to fight WW1? History Extra readers divided

The history of ideas: Sam Willis meets Hannah Dawson

The strange history of drinking

BBC History Magazine

Did Robin Hood have a love interest before Maid Marian?

The Babylonian Noah and Norse mythology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Royal cousins at war and Brunel's brilliance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

The history of cider: Sam Willis meets Richard Stone

BBC History Magazine

Top 10 History Extra podcasts of 2013

How the killing of Queen Victoria’s personal chef changed Anglo-German relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

Scientists discover what ancient Europeans looked like

Memories of Churchill and the history of the individual. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Gary Sheffield on First World War debate: 'A German victory would have been a disaster for Britain'

BBC History Magazine

March 2014

First World War

Niall Ferguson: “Britain should have stayed out of First World War”

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Professor Rebecca Earle

Q&AWhat was the Battle of the Herrings?

Paxman on World War One. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient Egypt galleryDiscovering Tutankhamun

My history hero: Yolanda of Aragon (d1442). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Revealed: how the Georgians taught us to diet 300 years ago

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Kate Williams

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