diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f318965a..5acc8438 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "android-tzdata",
  "iana-time-zone",
  "num-traits",
+ "serde",
  "winapi",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 07a9dfb5..ca1bc5ad 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ version = "0.26.0"
 doctest = true
 
 [dependencies]
-chrono = { version = "0.4.19", default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
+chrono = { version = "0.4.19", default-features = false, features = [
+    "clock",
+    "serde",
+] }
 clipboard = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
 crossbeam = { version = "0.8.2", optional = true }
 crossterm = { version = "0.27.0", features = ["serde"] }
diff --git a/src/history/item.rs b/src/history/item.rs
index 3696f3c7..0c36fba3 100644
--- a/src/history/item.rs
+++ b/src/history/item.rs
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ use serde::{de::DeserializeOwned, Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::{fmt::Display, time::Duration};
 
 /// Unique ID for the [`HistoryItem`]. More recent items have higher ids than older ones.
-#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct HistoryItemId(pub i64);
-
 impl HistoryItemId {
     /// Create a new `HistoryItemId` value
     pub const fn new(i: i64) -> HistoryItemId {
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ impl Display for HistoryItemId {
 }
 
 /// Unique ID for the session in which reedline was run to disambiguate different sessions
-#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct HistorySessionId(pub(crate) i64);
 impl HistorySessionId {
     pub(crate) const fn new(i: i64) -> HistorySessionId {
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for IgnoreAllExtraInfo {
 impl HistoryItemExtraInfo for IgnoreAllExtraInfo {}
 
 /// Represents one run command with some optional additional context
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct HistoryItem<ExtraInfo: HistoryItemExtraInfo = IgnoreAllExtraInfo> {
     /// primary key, unique across one history
     pub id: Option<HistoryItemId>,
@@ -99,6 +98,9 @@ pub struct HistoryItem<ExtraInfo: HistoryItemExtraInfo = IgnoreAllExtraInfo> {
     /// the exit status of the command
     pub exit_status: Option<i64>,
     /// arbitrary additional information that might be interesting
+    /// NOTE: this attribute is required because of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41617
+    ///       (see https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/issues/1296#issuecomment-394056188 for the fix)
+    #[serde(deserialize_with = "Option::<ExtraInfo>::deserialize")]
     pub more_info: Option<ExtraInfo>,
 }