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November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Best 37 History Books 2025: BBC History Magazine's Books Of The Year | HistoryExtra www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year
In the roster of laudable history books published in 2025, authors tackled topics as diverse as Gaza, Indian partition, extinction, medieval and Stuart monarchs – even historians themselves. Here, a p...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Step inside the ancient Roman empire's gladiatorial arenas, and witness 24 hours of shocking violence | HistoryExtra
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Step inside the ancient Roman empire's gladiatorial arenas, and witness 24 hours of shocking violence
From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in the ancient Roman empire
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November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg
Nellie Bly was a 19th-century American journalist who was told it would be impossible for her to make it around the world in 80 days like the fictional Phileas Fogg – then did it all the same. Pat Kin...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Think you know what an ancient Roman gladiator looked like? The reality will make you think again | HistoryExtra
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Think you know what an ancient Roman gladiator looked like? The reality will make you think again
Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the truth was far more complex
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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When Is Armistice Day, What Does It Commemorate & Why We Wear Poppies? | HistoryExtra

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Armistice Day: what does it commemorate? Why are poppies worn? Plus 4 more things you need to know
Armistice Day takes place on 11 November each year and marks the end of the First World War. It is a day of commemoration, an occasion to remember the some 8.5 million soldiers who died across the wor...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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In her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing army turned Sunday strolls into vital practice for war

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Tudor England had no standing army, but this humble hobby kept its people ready for war
Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing army turned Sunday strolls into vital practice for war
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November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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France, early that morning, and the ceasefire went into effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month [1]. 

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When Is Armistice Day, What Does It Commemorate & Why We Wear Poppies? | HistoryExtra

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Armistice Day: what does it commemorate? Why are poppies worn? Plus 4 more things you need to know
Armistice Day takes place on 11 November each year and marks the end of the First World War. It is a day of commemoration, an occasion to remember the some 8.5 million soldiers who died across the wor...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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My latest for @historyextra.bsky.social‬⁩: “The Real History Behind The Forsytes: How Much Of The Drama Is True?” | HistoryExtra #EconHist #LateVictorian #PeriodDrama #TheForsytes www.historyextra.com/period/victo...
The real history behind The Forsytes
The Forsytes, a new drama adaptation of John Galsworthy's novels, has landed on British screens, giving viewers a sumptuous look at late Victorian London – a world of dazzling excess and great divide....
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October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Huge thanks to HistoryExtra and all the brilliant expert contributors @waseemahmed98.bsky.social @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Dr Miranda Malins, Dr Eryn White, Prof Andrew Hopper, Dr Andrew Lind & Prof Jane Ohlmeyer.
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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We are excited to announce a brand new podcast series: UPRISING: THE CIVIL WARS. A six-part series produced by HistFest Productions for the HistoryExtra podcast.

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October 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Emily Hobhouse: life of the week | HistoryExtra podcast

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October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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This ancient goddess commanded a Wonder of the World – but why did she have thirty breasts? | HistoryExtra
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This ancient goddess commanded a Wonder of the World – but why did she have thirty breasts?
The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess Artemis in ruling fertility, childbirth and nature
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October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The ingenious Roman invention that sparked the ancient empire’s obsession with luxury | HistoryExtra
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The ingenious Roman invention that sparked the ancient empire’s obsession with luxury
Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power
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October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Hitler's Wealthy Backers: How German Elite Facilitated The Nazi Rise | HistoryExtra share.google/nMM9W3gADnG1...
Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis
Stephan Malinowski tells Rob Attar how a cocktail of naked opportunism and misplaced arrogance among Germany’s most powerful men facilitated the rise of the Third Reich | Accompanies the three-part BB...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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October 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Vlad the Impaler was medieval Europe's bloodiest warlord, but is the scale of his murder just a myth?
Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as medieval Europe’s most terrifying ruler. Now, new research asks: how true a...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Ancient Roman theatre was a powerful weapon of empire, so why were actors' lives so tragic? | HistoryExtra
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Ancient Roman theatre was a powerful weapon of empire, so why were actors' lives so tragic?
They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights. What was life really like for the men who took to the Roman stage?
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October 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Kornel Chang joined the HistoryExtra Podcast to discuss his recent publication, A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation. Check out the interview via the link below.
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America in Korea: a failed occupation?
Professor Kornel Chang revisits the three-year US occupation of the southern half of Korea that followed the Second World War, to see if opportunities were missed to prevent the bloodshed and division...
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October 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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On the HistoryExtra podcast, historian Steven Gunn reveals what coroners’ inquests tell us about everyday Tudor life, and how routine accidents on roads, fields and football pitches turned deadly

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For ordinary Tudors, death lurked around every corner with these surprising ways to die
On the HistoryExtra podcast, historian Steven Gunn reveals what coroners' inquests tell us about everyday Tudor life, and how routine accidents on roads, fields and football pitches turned deadly
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October 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM