Podcasts | Page 10 | History Hit

All Podcasts

48:44

Henry III: England's Longest Reigning King

7 August 2026

How did a nine-year-old boy save England from the brink of collapse? How did he transform a disastrous legacy into a remarkably stable...

Listen Now
46:35

The Mystic Nun Killed By Henry VIII

7 August 2026

As if the Tudor world wasn't mad enough, in 1528 a mystic nun showed up demanding an audience with Henry VIII.

Elizabeth Barton stood in...

Listen Now
55:10

A Pirate's Life In Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

7 August 2026

Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Benjamin Hornigold... Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced recreates the key people, places and events of the...

Listen Now
38:49

Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Jim Crow

6 August 2026

In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that Jim Crow segregation laws were not unconstitutional in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. This is the case that...

Listen Now
54:33

The Fall of the Ancient Maya

6 August 2026

What happens when a civilisation at its peak begins to fail? Historians have long been fascinated by the Maya Collapse in the 9th century: why the...

Listen Now
56:19

Scotland's First Warriors

6 August 2026

Three thousand years ago, prehistoric Scotland was a landscape of rival communities, raids and warfare. Bands of warriors fought for power and...

Listen Now
38:48

William Cecil: The Power Behind Elizabeth I

6 August 2026

Who really ruled Elizabethan England?

For almost four decades, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, guided Queen Elizabeth I through religious...

Listen Now
55:23

What Did The Vikings Do With Their Dead?

6 August 2026

The world of Viking death rituals and their beliefs surrounding the afterlife is truly fascinating... What happened when a Viking died? What...

Listen Now
41:44

Medieval Sex Work & Brothels

4 August 2026

**WARNING: This episode contains explicit language and sexual content

 

How did prostitution become so visible in medieval towns?...

Listen Now
44:52

Sex Lives of the Samurai

4 August 2026

The samurai are some of the most mythologised people in history, so let's do some myth busting!

Kate is joined by Joe Nickols, who...

Listen Now
41:05

What Happened to the Confederates?

3 August 2026

Across the defeated Confederacy, there had been an expectation that those who had taken up arms against their citizens would be punished. This did...

Listen Now
57:31

The Rise of the Ancient Maya

3 August 2026

For more than 3,000 years, the Maya built one of the Ancient world's greatest civilisations. They raised towering pyramids in the rainforest,...

Listen Now