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Victorian education and school | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture | HistoryExtra
It was in the Victorian period that school shifted to becoming a more universal experience. Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered and how the classroom was a different experience depending on whether you were a boy or a girl
Was Macrinus Real? The True Story Of Gladiator II's Power Broker | HistoryExtra
Rather than a trainer of gladiators, in real history Macrinus is remembered as the first emperor not to be from the aristocratic or senatorial classes. But, as Jonny Wilkes explores, he did not last long enough to make much more of a mark
Was Maximus Decimus Meridius A Real Gladiator? | HistoryExtra
In Gladiator, director Ridley Scott created a swords-and-sandals epic that was half-history and half-fiction, and that includes his titular hero. Yet, as Jonny Wilkes, explores, there were plenty of real figures from Roman history to draw from when bringing Maximus Decimus Meridius to life
Caracalla And Geta | The Real Roman Emperors Of Gladiator II | HistoryExtra
The first Gladiator movie had a despicably deranged and dangerous antagonist in Commodus, but the upcoming sequel has a pair of emperors more than fit to take up that mantle. Jonny Wilkes explores the stories of Caracalla and Geta, brothers who rose up to the throne, but refused to share it
Blood, guts and spectacle: 6 shocking events from the history of ancient Roman gladiators | HistoryExtra
How did gladiators supercharge the rise of Julius Caesar? And why were they seen as sex symbols? As Gladiator II arrives in cinemas, Guy de la Bédoyère tells the story of this brutal form of mass entertainment through six of its most significant (and surprising) moments
Part one – Daily life: how did people live in the 19th century? | HistoryExtra
Ruth introduces the cold and heavy physical labour of everyday living. She examines the normal routines of life – from washing and dressing, to eating and sleeping – and how this differed for people from different walks of life.
Inside Victorian Zoos: Animals, Fireworks, Music & More | HistoryExtra
If the Surrey Zoological Garden was anything to go by, a zoo in the Georgian and Victorian eras was so much more than a place to see animals from around the world. Joanne Cormac reveals how the entertainments put on – which included pyrotechnic re-enactments of the Great Fire of London – reflected Britons’ growing taste for the exotic in the 19th century