History Hit Podcasts
History Hit has a wide variety of podcasts including Dan Snow’s History Hit, The Ancients, Gone Medieval, Not Just The Tudors, Betwixt The Sheets, American History Hit, After Dark, and Echoes of History.
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Emperor Nero
21 August 2025Emperor Nero has gone down in history as the archetypal bad ruler - cruel, decadent, and perhaps even responsible for setting Rome ablaze. But how...
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American Traitors: Axis Sally
21 August 2025Is contributing to enemy propaganda treason? In this second episode on American Traitors, we are meeting 'Axis Sally', real name Mildred...
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The Darkest Scandal in Victorian Britain
21 August 2025Today we step into the shadowy world of W.T. Stead—a Victorian journalist whose life was as controversial as it was...
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Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria
21 August 2025Known as the 'King of the World' and the last great king of Assyria, Ashurbanipal bestrode the ancient Mesopotamian world as a warrior but also a...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Amy Dudley
21 August 2025**WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of suicide**
On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at...
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The Colosseum
19 August 2025Join Dan in Rome as he unravels the dramatic story of the Colosseum and the gladiators who fought — and died — for glory. From the origins of...
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Medieval Obscenity
19 August 2025This episode contains obscene and sexual language throughout
The medieval world was far from prudish, it was positively bawdy. Writers,...
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The Real Virgin Mary
19 August 2025Why has the idea of the Virgin Mary’s virginity been so important?
What does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and...
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What If Lincoln Hadn't Been Shot?
18 August 2025It's the biggest 'What if?' in American history: What if Lincoln hadn't been shot? The assassination could so easily have failed and things went...
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How Rome Built An Empire
18 August 2025In the new game Anno 117: Pax Romana, the Emperor has appointed you as governor, tasked with developing new provinces in the Empire.
It’s...
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New York's Wildest Murder Case
18 August 2025This 1897 New York murder case that has it all - a villain, an incredibly useless police force, and a duck who saves the day. The incredible Dr...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe
18 August 2025Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it? We're stepping out of the sun and into the shadows on Not Just the Tudors, as Professor...
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Napoleon in Paris
17 August 2025Napoleon Bonaparte dreamed Paris would be the 'capital city of the universe' and much of what we see - and love - about Paris is thanks to him....
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The White Huns
17 August 2025The Huns weren’t just Attila’s warriors in Europe — in Central Asia, the White Huns built the most powerful Hunnic empire, ruling for a...
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The Paston Letters with Helen Castor
15 August 2025Matt Lewis and Helen Castor uncover the romantic entanglements and perilous struggles of the 15th-century Paston family, whose personal...
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How Wild Were The Last Days Of Rome?
15 August 2025As Rome fell, was it really non-stop orgies and parties?
That's become a popular connotation, and in today's episode Kate is joined by...
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Pompeii
14 August 2025Warning: this episode contains explicit language and discussions of sex.
Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the...
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American Traitors: Benedict Arnold
14 August 2025Is Benedict Arnold the biggest traitor in American History? In this episode, Don is joined by author Stephen Brumwell to examine how Arnold went...
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Othered: Race, Gender & Human 'Monsters'
14 August 2025**Contains examples of 'othering', including birth abnormalities, and the terms used to describe them historically**
Professor Suzannah...
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Victorian Love Triangle Murder
14 August 2025Through the industrial fog of Victorian London, in one of the city's most notorious slums, a murder took place that shocked a nation.
The...
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Roman Aqueducts
14 August 2025How did Roman aqueducts help build an empire? They’re some of the most iconic structures from the ancient world — feats of engineering that...
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