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 Jews of Norwich
16 December 2025The chilling discovery of a medieval well in Norwich, filled with the remains of 17 Jewish adults and children, opened a window into the lived...
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The Truth About Sigmund Freud
16 December 2025It's the one we've all been waiting for!
The Oedipus Complex; the oral, anal and phallic stages; penis envy; psychoanalysis - we've all...
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Life on a Mississippi Steamboat
15 December 2025It's one of the most iconic symbols of early Americana; it conjures up images of bustling saloon bars and Mark Twain. But as glamorous as they may...
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Ancient Civilisations of Arabia in Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory
15 December 2025Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory recreates life in the AlUla oasis as it was over a millennium ago. Players can climb the...
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Surviving Plague in Venice
15 December 2025450 years ago, Venice found itself facing a plague outbreak that would kill more than 50,000 people - a third of its population. But to manage the...
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The Origins of the Royal Navy
15 December 2025Henry VIII wanted to have the most powerful Navy in Europe; he also didn't want to have to travel very far to get it. Around 1512, he built a...
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Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal
15 December 2025In 1895, the world witnessed its first true celebrity trial when Oscar Wilde was charged with “Gross Indecency". To tell the powerful story of...
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Stegosaurus: Titan of the Jurassic
14 December 2025Few dinosaurs are as instantly recognisable as the plated titan Stegosaurus - it's the Jurassic giant with a brain the size of a walnut and a tail...
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Norwich Castle
12 December 2025Medieval Norwich comes alive as Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega visit Norwich Castle, once a hulking Norman fortress, royal palace and later a...
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Inside the Royal Harems of the Ottoman Empire
12 December 2025You can't move for people talking about the Roman Empire or the British Empire, but what about the Ottoman Empire?
It spanned a huge period...
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What Was The Ghost Dance?
11 December 2025Reunion with the dead. The return of lands, food supplies and buffalo. The disappearance of white settlers.
By the end of the 19th Century,...
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Rise of King Herod
11 December 2025He’s the villain of the Nativity. An alleged killer of innocents, remembered as one of history’s great monsters. But the truth about Herod the...
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Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother
11 December 2025What if the most powerful woman in Anne Boleyn’s story never spoke on the record? Elizabeth Boleyn steps out of the shadows in this revelatory...
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Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?
11 December 2025Maddy and Anthony dig into their own family history in collaboration with Ancestry! They find stories from the darker side of the past in their...
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How America Invaded Canada
11 December 2025Dan narrates the remarkable story of how George Washington's newly established Continental Army tried to conquer Canada in the brutal winter of...
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The Mother of All Tudors: Child Bride to Kingmaker
9 December 2025Ever heard of Margaret Beaufort? Probably not. But whilst her name has been overshadowed by those of her son, grandson and great-grandchildren,...
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St. Francis & the First Nativity Play
9 December 2025Christmas would not be complete without a nativity play: Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, all watched over by an ox, a donkey and assorted bystanders...
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The German Spies at Pearl Harbor
8 December 2025What would you do if you discovered that members of your family had spied for the Japanese at Pearl Harbor? When this happened to Christine Kuehn,...
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What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?
8 December 2025We all know the story of Pompeii: the Roman town reduced to ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Roughly two-thousand years later, archaeologists have...
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Henry VIII At War
8 December 2025**Contains descriptions of war atrocities, including rape and infanticide**
In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army ever raised by an...
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The Bombing of Guernica
8 December 2025The aerial bombardment that rained down on the Spanish city of Guernica in 1937 was one of the most shocking atrocities of the Spanish Civil War....
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