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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America's Top Secrets: Manhattan Project to Drone Warfare
17 April 2023Much of American history has been redacted. Since the World War 2, the number of secrets the US government has kept has grown exponentially. There...
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John Donne: England’s Greatest Love Poet
17 April 2023John Donne was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the...
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Colonising Nicaragua: William Walker
17 April 2023In the mid-19th century, William Walker led a group of fellow US Expansionists to Nicaragua, in an attempt to seize the country as their own. Some...
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31:28
The Koh-i-Noor Diamond
16 April 2023The enormous Cullinan Diamond will be on display at Charles III Coronation, but the diamond that's missing - the Koh-i-Noor - is the one that...
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Assassins vs Templars: The Templars & The Holy Grail
16 April 2023This is the most sought after Christian relic, believed to have miraculous healing powers and divine origins. What isn’t known is exactly what...
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Telegraph
16 April 2023Get ready for the story of how the telegraph went from a long line of monks holding hands to a technology that straddled the earth. One which...
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Iron Age Scotland: Clachtoll Broch
16 April 2023Across northern Scotland, you can still see the skeletal remains of prehistoric skyscrapers known as brochs. These enigmatic drystone towers...
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Rise of the Assassins
15 April 2023This is a special episode from a series we made in collaboration with Ubisoft, the makers of Assassin's Creed.
In Assassins vs Templars,...
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Afghanistan: How the Taliban Won
14 April 2023In August 2021, Afghanistan's capital city Kabul, was captured by the Taliban. With scenes of panic, anarchy, and chaos splashed across every...
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Victorian Wardrobe Secrets
14 April 2023If someone from the future looked inside your wardrobe, what could they find out about your life? That you like going out to parties? Maybe your...
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The Moon Landing
13 April 2023July 20th, 1969. Neil Armstrong descends from Lunar Module Eagle to the Moon's surface. A momentous moment in American, and human history....
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Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
13 April 2023When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for a series of adventurers who would...
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41:58
The Great Fire of Rome
13 April 2023In July 64AD, the Great Fire of Rome tore across the city, and ultimately burnt two thirds of Rome to ashes before it could be bought under...
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The Spy Behind the Iron Curtain
12 April 2023This episode contains high-speed chases, modified cars and a mission to uncover secret enemy technology. It's everything you'd find in a James...
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Inventing Bond: The Real Q
12 April 2023Well before Bond was lasering and limboing himself out of fictional situations, these were the questions faced by the British forces trying to...
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Vikings in Spain
11 April 2023When we think of Vikings, we tend to picture them in the colder climates of Northern Europe, and not so much in the warmer regions of Spain and...
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The Katyn Massacre
11 April 2023Dan explains what happened in the spring of 1940 when the Soviet secret police executed over 22,000 Polish prisoners of war at three secluded...
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Bond Girls
11 April 2023‘Bond girl’ is quite a loaded term. Why aren’t they women? What makes them part of this homologous team? And what does it mean if they have...
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Becoming an Anglo-Saxon King
11 April 2023Throughout April, Gone Medieval is your perfect companion for the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III. In this episode, Dr. Cat Jarman...
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The Road to Civil Rights
10 April 2023Under segregation, African Americans' lives were severely limited. Restricted entry to public places, private businesses and public transport,...
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The Secret History of Nuclear War
10 April 2023Why is it that nobody has used the absolute weapon, the nuclear bomb, since 1945? Was it ever likely that the American arsenal would be used...
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