Great French Kings: From Louis II to Louis XI

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Louis-Philippe, King of France: History of France

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Henri Iv, King of France: History of France

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The Sack of Rome

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Princes of the Renaissance

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Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II

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Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were

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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100-1300

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The First Italian War of Independence: The History and Legacy of the Revolutions that Started the Process of Italy’s Unification

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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire

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Richard III: The Self-Made King

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History of France - The Earlier Kings of France

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The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers

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Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

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Cola di Rienzo: The Controversial Life and Legacy of the Medieval Roman Who Attempted to Unify Italy

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To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII

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Royalty

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French Royalty

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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

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The Second Italian War of Independence: The History and Legacy of the Conflict that Led to Italy’s Unification

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Romanov: The Last Tsarist Dynasty

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Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens

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Towton and Bosworth: The History of the Wars of the Roses’ Most Important Battles

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The Hundred Years War: A People's History

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The Great Siege of Malta: The History of the Battle for the Mediterranean Island Between the Ottoman Empire and Knights Hospitaller

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Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family

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The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown

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Royal Family: Behind The Crown

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The Man in the Iron Mask: The True Story of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner

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The Executions of British and French Royalty: The Lives of the Royals Who Were Put to Death in England and France

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Froissart's Chronicles—Excerpts: From The Great Wars of England and France

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Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made catching war criminals the family business

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel

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Summary: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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The War on the West

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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The Teutonic Knights: A Military History

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The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons

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The Ghost Map

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones

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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries

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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066

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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

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Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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The Reformation: A History

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Episode 11 - The Great Count: Roger de Hauteville was a strange conqueror. The youngest of twelve sons he was the last to come to Italy and treated as the least capable of the siblings by a jealous Guiscard. His first raid in Sicily was a disaster that seemed to confirm the worst suspicions about him. But Roger persevered and over three decades he managed to carve out a kingdom that rivaled that of William the Conqueror's. Along the way he won one of the most spectacular battles in medieval history and managed to die with all of his vast conquests at peace. Join Lars Brownworth as he looks at the surprising life of the last Hauteville brother.

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Episode 17 - Stupor Mundi: Frederick II was the most polarizing figure to rule as king of Sicily. To some he was the antichrist - a heretical monster whose harem and open contempt of Christianity was the scandal of civilized Europe. To others, however, he was Stupor Mundi - the 'wonder of the world'. He was in many ways a walking contradiction. A German Emperor who was raised on the streets of Palermo, a cynical Teutonic politician in love with the pomp and legends of the south, and a Renaissance monarch in the High Middle Ages. Join Lars Brownworth as he looks at the life of Frederick II, the grandson of both Norman Sicily's greatest king and its deadliest enemy.

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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudors: Nicola Tallis discusses Margaret Beaufort who played a key role in the Wars of the Roses and whose son, Henry VII, began the Tudor dynasty. Historyextra.com/podcast

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The Queens Who Fought for 40 Years

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Story of England: Stone Age to Roman Days: Dan begins his ultimate historical road trip at the mysterious plinths at Stonehenge in the South-West of England.

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Les Filles du Roi: While the building of a population in a new colony seems like a tricky endeavor, France's King Louis XIV launched a scheme to do just that by shipping eligible ladies to New France in the 1600s. Read the show notes here.

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Episode 18 - Bohemond - Part 1: A great father can be both a blessing and a curse, and no one was more aware of that than Bohemond de Hauteville. The first-born son of the adventurer Robert Guiscard, Bohemond spent most of his formative years trying to both prove himself worthy and escape his father's formidable shadow. At every turn, however, fate seemed to conspire against him. Disinherited before he reached the age of five, he was raised by a step-mother who was determined to keep him from an inheritance, and actively held back by more powerful members of his family. But Bohemond had Guiscard's blood flowing in his veins and an unwavering belief in his eventual triumph. Join Lars Brownworth as he traces Bohemond's struggle to claim a place in the sun.

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211: War of the Roses 3: The Romantic Queen and the Monkish King: Owen says, "Nah"

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How Inbred were the Habsburgs? 1/2 The Spanish Line

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49.1 The Reign of Mary of England and Philip Habsburg: The kingdoms of England and Spain are allies during the reign of Mary I of England and her husband Philip Habsburg, son of Emperor Charles V. Mary, however, dies childless and is succeeded by her sister Elizabeth, a Protestant. Meanwhile Mary Queen of ...

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What not to do at Henry VIII's court with Jessie Childs: In this episode historian Jessie Childs advises us what not to do at the court of Henry VIII in order to keep your head. In this series of talks by renowned Tudor historians, we closely examine the monarch and man himself, Henry VIII. These talks were...

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Pytheas and the Circumnavigation of Britain: In about 325 BCE Pytheas of Massalia begins one of the first great voyages of discovery when he sets out into the land of the Celts to find the legendary island of Britain.

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Anne of Cleves: The ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it?

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Loveday: Henry VI's Well-intentioned, Terrible Attempt at Making Peace

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Episode 15 - William the Good: William II presided over a golden age of internal peace and prosperity, and when he died suddenly in the flower of his youth, he was mourned as no other king of Sicily. Yet, while he may have been outwardly splendid, he wasn't a good ruler. If there was peace it was accidental; he committed the kingdom to ruinous foreign adventures, and squandered its resources. Worst of all he promised the throne to Sicily's greatest enemy in exchange for a temporary peace. Join Lars Brownworth as he looks at the reign of William II, the irresponsible and foolish king remembered by history as William the Good.

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Lady Jane Grey: What is the truth behind the claims to the throne of Lady Jane Grey, who reigned for just 13 days? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to author and historian Nicola Tallis who reveals the moving, human story of an extraordinary and tragic Queen.

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Episode 19 - Bohemond - Part 2 - Bohemond in the East: The First Crusade fell like a present into Bohemond's lap. Italy wasn't big enough for his ambitions (especially with his uncle blocking him at every turn) and now here was an opportunity to win fame and wealth in the east, and to look pious while doing it. What better way to prove himself worthy of his father than by accomplishing Guiscard's glittering eastern dream? Join Lars Brownworth as he follows Bohemond on Crusade, where he again matched wits with his old nemesis Alexius, and carved out a kingdom around one of the Near East's most famous cities.

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Episode 110: Arthur Tudor: Arthur Tudor was a Tudor prince who we often think of just in terms of his death. When we do talk about him in life, it's often about whether he consummated his marriage. But there was more to Arthur than that. And after having read a biography of...

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Who Were the Picts?: Who were the Picts—and what became of them? In this episode, we’re going to find out.

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Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress: Matt Lewis talks to Gemma Hollmann about how two very different women used their skills and charms to win the heart of the same King.

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The Wars of the Roses: Endings: Part Three of our special miniseries on the civil wars that reforged England's destiny.

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Why the Plantagenets matter: Dan Jones argues the importance of the Plantagenet dynasty to British history.

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The role of Henry VIII's court with Glenn Richardson: In this episode historian Glenn Richardson explores losing your head at Henry VIII's court, by contextualising how the court operated as the machinery of monarchy. In this series of talks by renowned Tudor historians, we closely examine the monarch...

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Introducing...This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

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Episode 133: Travel in Tudor England: In this episode we chat about how our Tudor friends traveled. There's this myth that people in medieval and early Modern England didn't travel - that they stayed in their one little area forever, and that was that. But actually, they had the ...

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The Rise & Fall of the de la Pole Family: The fascinating story of the dynasty that played a central role in the Wars of the Roses.

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Episode 14 - William the Bad: If Roger II had been the 'baptized Sultan', his son William forgot the water. Despised by his legendary father and never intended for the throne, William the Bad dedicated his life to the comforts of the palace, stirring only to lead his armies on the battlefield, the one area in which he excelled. Though he could at times be energetic and even brilliant as a general, his reign was stained by internal rebellions and the loss of international prestige. But however much his reputation was blackened by subsequent historians, William I was hardly the failure that he was made out to be. Join Lars Brownworth as he looks at the life of William the Bad, the Norman Kingdom's most maligned king.

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Six wives | 6. Katherine Parr: Dr Estelle Paranque and Dr Tracy Borman reveal how Henry VIII’s last wife used her position to advance religious reform – and bolster her own power

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The Wars of the Roses: The Rise of the Beauforts

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Agrippina the Younger (Radio Edit): Greg Jenner takes us back to first-century Rome to meet Agrippina the Younger.