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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How to Write Cuneiform
8 February 2026More than 5,000 years ago, a revolutionary script emerged in the fertile lands of Mesopotamia that would transform how people counted, governed,...
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Sex & Scandal behind Wuthering Heights
6 February 2026Wuthering Heights is a story full of passion, violence and sexual tension.
So it's no surprise that it shocked Victorian readers when it...
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How Horses Ran the Medieval World
6 February 2026How integral were horses to warfare, agriculture and travel in the Middle Ages? What did your horse say about your status? How can knowing more...
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Battle of Baton Rouge: Civil War on the Mississippi
5 February 2026The Civil War along the Mississippi was reaching a critical moment by the Summer of 1862. The Union had advanced and planted its flag in...
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Why Cromwell's Republic Failed
5 February 2026After the execution of King Charles I, England became a Republic for the only time in its history. Yet why was this revolutionary moment so...
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Alexander the Great | Rise to Power
5 February 2026NEW SERIES! Journey through the early life of Alexander the Great, from his education under Aristotle to his first military experiences and rise...
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Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre
5 February 2026Bootleg liquor. Tommy guns. Gangs ruling the city with crooked cops.
The Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 Chicago sounds cinematic, but the...
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How Did Three Samurai Warlords Unite Japan?
5 February 2026Today, we dive into the chaotic final act of Japan’s Warring States period, and hear about the three warlords who brought it to an end. Oda...
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Henry VIII vs. Catherine of Aragon | History's Worst Breakups
3 February 2026Welcome to a brand new mini-series on Betwixt the Sheets, where our host, Dr Kate Lister, takes you through the most catastrophic breakups in...
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How to win a Medieval Battle
3 February 2026Matt Lewis and Dr.Eleanor Janega are launched into a medieval battle, how do they survive? They explore the intricacies of medieval warfare; from...
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Darkest Hours: Brother Against Brother
2 February 2026There is no question that the Civil War is one of the darkest chapters in American history. With roughly 2.5 percent of the population lost, a...
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"Bloody Mary": Debunking the Myths
2 February 2026Was Mary Tudor truly “Bloody Mary”? Has England’s first reigning queen been misunderstood for centuries? Determined to restore Roman...
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Dark Truth About Victorian 'Freak Shows'
2 February 2026Julia Pastrana was a Mexican woman exploited as a sideshow attraction in life and grotesquely exhibited even after her death because of her...
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Whaling
2 February 2026The history of whaling is complicated. At its height in the 18th and 19th centuries, whaling was a global enterprise built on perilous voyages,...
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Viking Age Music In Assassin's Creed Valhalla
2 February 2026The Assassin’s Creed games specialise in recreating the places and sounds of the past. But how can we know what music our ancestors listened to?...
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Adam and Eve
1 February 2026Adam and Eve: parents of humanity, or characters in a Near Eastern myth about wisdom, mortality, and the limits of being human?
Tristan...
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The Parliament of Bats: Plantagenets at War
30 January 2026How could England be ruled when the king was just a baby? When Henry VI came to the throne at nine months old, the hunger for power among his...
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How Filthy Were the Victorians?
30 January 2026They say people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The Victorians might have done well to live by that rule.
For all of the dirt that...
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The Annexation of Hawaiʻi
29 January 2026How did Hawaiʻi - once an independent, internationally recognised kingdom - become America's 50th state? It's a tale of economic pressure,...
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The First Popes
29 January 2026What do we know about the earliest Popes, and how did they shape the early Christian Church amidst persecution?
Tristan Hughes is joined by...
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Joan of Arc
29 January 2026Teenage peasant, visionary commander, convicted heretic, national saint - Joan of Arc's life reads like a legend. Today, Dan digs past that legend...
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