History Extra - 23 Dez 2025
What drove Norse warriors to terrorise the Mediterranean?
MEDIEVAL VAMPIRE SLAYERS
How the SAS rose from the dead
The prince and the brothel
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JANUARY 2026
THREE THINGS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE
44
How the SAS rose from the dead
The Vikings’ most daring raid
Defying the Inquisition
54
A tour of Europe in 1066
73 Medieval vampire slayers
66
Humble Victorian heroes
My history hero Novelist Simon Scarrow on the activist Sophie Scholl
Historians name the biggest scandals to have rocked the British monarchy
Tharik Hussain on the history of Muslims in Europe
Michael Wood on insights into Homer’s Iliad
Things to see and do this month
What we’ve learned this month
Q&A
Travel: 7 historical trips for 2026
New history books reviewed
Recipe: Oxford Pudding
Hidden Histories
Prize crossword
Ask the experts
Anniversaries
Letters
“The Vikings occupied the city, burned the mosque and ravaged the countryside”
Thomas Paine prints his revolutionary manifesto
Henry VII weds Elizabeth of York in Westminster
9 JANUARY 1806
Latvian anarchists bring terror to the East End
30 JANUARY 1607
10 JANUARY 1927
Simon de Montfort convenes an extraordinary parliament
Six scandals that rocked the royals
The prince, the brothel and a culture war
Did Queen Victoria marry her servant?
The prince, the brothel and a culture war
Edward VIII puts love before duty
The Prince Regent’s marital misery
Georgian Britain’s disobedient rake
Elizabeth II misreads the public mood
Scholars have applied models used in genetic research to Homer’s Iliad
Deepest fears
Diverse stories
Lost in Austen
DNA of a dictator
Family dynamics
All cisterns go
Martin Luther condemned the German Peasants’ War
For Frederick Douglass, escape didn’t bring freedom from fear
Vikings evolved very differently in eastern 'urope and Iceland
Every one of us has an archive of our life, which is part of a bigger history
Menace in the Mediterranean
Menace in the Mediterranean
A leader of Europe’s Jewish diaspora
Who is the most overrated person in history?
Erik Bloodaxe
Cicero
Ronald Reagan
Simon de Montfort
Guardians of heritage
Guardians of heritage
BACK FROM THE DEAD
BACK FROM THE DEAD
CONQUEST? WHAT CONQUEST?
CONQUEST? WHAT CONQUEST?
It was the summer of 1066
EUROPEAN DRAMA
Were Roman gladiators vegetarian?
Is it true that malaria was once common in the UK?
Did Victorians think table legs were sexy?
Why did women pluck hairlines in the 13th century?
Why were witches shown wearing pointy hats?
Were fish and chips rationed during the Second World War?
How did western leaders react to Stalin’s death?
Humble heroes
Humble heroes
At the turn of the 12th century, two men from a Staffordshire village died suddenly. Their lifeless bodies were taken to the local graveyard and solemnly laid to rest…
Eternal non-sleeping
Dawn of Dracula
Zombie slaves
Rise of the chomping dead
Seen from this side of Brexit, the events of last century seem to have an entirely different emphasis
“Japan’s history is conveyed as a chorus of sometimes competing perspectives”
Tharik Hussain on the long but too often overlooked history of Muslims in Europe
“The US clung to Britain’s coat-tails, culturally as well as economically, well into the 19th century”
“Each of the Tudor monarchs used art to shape their image and exert their power”
“Leaving Muslim contributions out of European history has allowed Islamophobic sentiment to flourish”
Independent empires
1776 and all that
Apart together
Eastern premise
Royal progress
Forged money
Portrait of the artists
Martha McGill on a pioneering study of folk beliefs in early modern England
Back in the ring
Back in the ring
EXHIBITIONS
Truth seeker
Witnesses to disaster
A sense of loss
Puppet master
Table tactician
GAMES / Rewrite world history
Still delivering
Oxford Pudding
PRIZE CROSSWORD
Solution to our December 2025 crossword
Mortimer’s A to Zs of English History
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