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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Napoleon
16 July 2023Did Napoleon really come from nothing and conquer everything? The release of the trailer for Ridley Scott's new epic biopic film has created hot...
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Jersey: Ice Age Island
16 July 2023The largest of the Channel Islands, when you think of Jersey, it's doubtful that Neanderthals, Woolly Mammoths, and Woolly Rhinoceroses come to...
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Ectoplasm: Seances & the Rise of Spiritualism
16 July 2023Communicating with the dead has a long and winding history. The rise of seances and the showmanship of paranormal activity rose to prominence in...
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Mozart's Sex Life
14 July 2023When we think of the biggest pop icons of all time, we might reach for Madonna, Elvis, or yes, even Michael Jackson.
One name that’s...
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Ukraine: War Crimes & Cluster Bombs
14 July 2023As over a year passes since the Bucha Massacre, new information and intelligence on Russian war crimes continues to emerge from the conflict. With...
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Beowulf
14 July 2023Composed towards the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Anglo-Saxon epic poem that transcends its time to shed light on...
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Helen of Troy with Natalie Haynes
13 July 2023Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships - but is there more to her than a beautiful face? Commemorated throughout history in...
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Nixon in Moscow: The Kitchen Debate
13 July 2023Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Leading figures of the United States and the Soviet Union respectively, in a verbal debate about capitalism...
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Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke
13 July 2023As Queen Elizabeth I lays dying, King James VI of Scotland is waiting to accede to the throne of England. But who will thrive and who will fall...
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The Picts: Scourge of Rome
12 July 2023Emerging around the 3rd century CE and later designated official adversaries of the Roman Empire, the Picts wreaked havoc across the northern...
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Fish & Chips: The Unexpected Origins of Britain's Favourite Dish
12 July 2023Fish and Chips. About 382 million portions of the iconic national dish are consumed every year. That works out to around 6 servings per person,...
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Russia & USA: The 100-Year Cold War
11 July 2023The Cold War was defined by the antagonism between two world superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. They relied on proxy wars,...
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Victorian Baby Farming Killer: Amelia Dyer
11 July 2023In Victorian Britain, there was no formalised state adoption. Instead, desperate mothers paid other families to take their newborns. This tragic...
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How To Dress in the Middle Ages
11 July 2023What clothes would you have worn in the Middle Ages? What were the most fashionable hairstyles? How did your clothing denote social status? How...
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The North Pole Scandal
10 July 2023In the autumn of 1909, the American explorer Frederick Cook arrived in Copenhagen, claiming to have become the first person to reach the North...
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LSD in New York: Research, Recreation and Radicalism
10 July 2023Why should we associate LSD and its psychedelic effects with New York as much as we associate it with San Francisco? What use did the CIA think...
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Francis Drake's Discovery of West Coast America
10 July 2023In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast of the New World when his ship - The Golden...
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War Time Origins of the NHS
10 July 20232023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. Often heralded as one of the greatest post-war institutions, providing free...
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Operation Mincemeat
9 July 2023The most audacious deception operation of WWII. On the 30th of April, 1943, the corpse of a 'Major Martin' washed up near the Spanish city of...
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Black Boxes: Recording Airplanes' Final Moments
9 July 2023They can survive in lava for half an hour and accelerations of 3,400 Gs. Their beacons can be detected 20,000 feet beneath the waves. Most...
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Chandragupta Maurya: Hero of India
9 July 2023Evolving from an obscure ancient ruler to a contemporary national icon, Chandragupta Maurya's story is finally being told. However, despite tales...
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