Extra History Topic Suggestions are OPEN until 8/12!
Added 2025-08-05 17:30:01 +0000 UTCHello Historians, our next Extra History series theme is Historical Tyrants.
They assumed emergency powers, declared themselves gods, and fiddled while Rome burned (okay, probably not that last one). They're the most famous tyrants and dictators in history and we're telling their stories. How they rose to power, pushed out rivals, pursued their enemies and—at times—fell from great heights. Give us your Nero, Mussolini, or Ivan the Terrible. Maybe you want to know about how Porfirio Diaz kept an iron grip on Mexico for 35 years, and brought on the Revolution, or the horrifying crimes of Emperor Commodus. Or how about famous biblical villain Herod the Great, or Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada? Give us the best of the worst.
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Suggestions should feature content before the 1930s
If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
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Comments
I think a possible one-off episode or an entire episode could go into what happened to Edward V and Richard, foul play or disease or both. If it was foul play, who was responsible: their uncle Richard (obvious motive), the Duke of Buckingham (as part of his rebellion against Richard to seize the throne for himself), Henry Tudor (taking out his future brothers-in-law to marry their sister), their father Edward IV (who's lifestyle after 1471 resulted in his early death before either or both were of majority), and anyone else that might be found in research.
Matt Ries
2025-08-11 13:39:50 +0000 UTCI remember suggesting Mussolini back last year for your rise of power series. But it didn’t pick. So I think I’m doing it again. After he created fascism, he came to power 11 years before Hitler. But with that word being thrown around so often today. It would be great to show what it means.
Harp Man
2025-08-10 15:26:52 +0000 UTCRichard the Third, a Machiavellian who schemed his way to the throne and killed his nephews? Or an unfortunate ruler at the center of Queen Elizabeth's Shakespearian Propaganda?
Vivian Griffith
2025-08-09 00:09:57 +0000 UTC
