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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The Victorian Sex Trafficking Panic
31 March 2026Was there really a boom in sex trafficking at the end of the 19th century? What was 'white slavery'? And how often did the traffickers get...
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The Women Who Ruled Medieval Burgundy, and Europe
31 March 2026What if the most powerful warlords in medieval Europe were women?
From wine country to empire, Burgundy’s Duchesses brokered marriages,...
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The Trail of Tears | The Frontier
30 March 2026The Trail of Tears is one of the darkest chapters in American history: the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral...
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Is Saladin Overrated?
30 March 2026The original Assassin’s Creed game focuses on the Assassins' efforts to bring down the Templars during the Third Crusade from 1189-1192. He...
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The Commanders: Zhukov
30 March 2026Marshal Georgy Zhukov was undoubtedly one of the Second World War's most formidable figures. Rising from humble peasant origins, Zhukov became the...
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Henry Wotton: Outlaw and Royal Spy
30 March 2026Assassination plots, Venetian stand‑offs and a diplomat in disguise: how did one maverick change the course of history?
Professor Suzannah...
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The Man Who Ate Everything
30 March 2026Listener warning: this episode contains a description of cruelty to animals
One of the strangest tales to emerge from Napoleonic France was...
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The Roman Centurion
29 March 2026What did it take to become a Roman centurion? To command, to punish and to lead from the very front of Rome’s armies?
In this episode of...
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A Complete History of Medieval Ireland
27 March 2026What happens when a kidnapped teenager returns to the land of his captors to change it forever? Dr Eleanor Janega and James Hawes romp through...
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The Truth about Charlie Chaplin
27 March 2026Charlie Chaplin had an extraordinary life: from the workhouses of Victorian London to the glamorous films sets of Hollywood's Golden Age.
He...
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Rise and Fall of the Shakers
26 March 2026The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, best known as the Shakers, emerged in the UK in the 18th Century. So how is it that...
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The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
26 March 2026What happens when a defensive alliance slowly turns into an empire? Tristan Hughes and Professor Polly Low explore the Delian League, the...
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The Rise and Fall of Pirate Captain Kidd
26 March 2026Was Captain William Kidd a ruthless pirate or a pawn in a royal gamble gone wrong? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Debbie Kilroy trace his...
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The Real Peaky Blinders
26 March 2026Today, we step beyond the slow-motion swagger and into the gritty, complex reality of the Peaky Blinders. Who were the gangsters behind the myths?...
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Britain's First Ghost Hunt
26 March 2026It was the original modern ghost hunt, the one that set the template for all the haunted houses to come. When a wealthy plantation family moves...
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1066 New Discovery: The Myth of Harold's March
24 March 2026What if one of the most famous stories in English history never happened? What if King Harold did not march his exhausted troops 200 miles before...
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Did Fashion Kill Marie Antoinette?
24 March 2026Marie Antoinette went to her death as one of the most hated people in the world, but in recent years she has inspired millions with her style. How...
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The Texas Rangers | The Frontier
23 March 2026We've all heard of the Texas Rangers: an undoubted icon of the American West.
In this week’s instalment of our Frontier series, we’ll be...
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The Commanders: Yamamoto
23 March 2026Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the mastermind of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbour that dragged the United States into the Second World War....
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Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?
23 March 2026Who had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII? When Henry Tudor took the crown on the battlefield at Bosworth, his hereditary...
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Dark Side of the Celts: Wicker Men and trophy heads
23 March 2026The Ancient Celts: feared in battle, guided by Druids, and bound together by ritual.
Long before Rome pushed north, Celtic peoples ruled...
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