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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Lord Byron: Incest, Adultery & Daddy Issues
21 March 2023How debaucherous do you have to be to be remembered as the original bad boy? How mad, bad and dangerous to know was Lord Byron? And how much of it...
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A Short History of Bank Collapses
21 March 2023Looking back at the past few weeks, it seems like banks are collapsing left, right and centre; but what exactly does this mean for us? Are these...
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Iroquois Confederacy
20 March 2023At its height the Iroquois Confederacy (or Haudenosaunee) - a union of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations - controlled lands...
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35:55
Who Painted Anne Dudley? A Tudor Mystery
20 March 2023For centuries, the name of an accomplished and popular portrait painter in the court of Elizabeth I has remained unknown. The renowned art...
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42:12
Saddam Hussein's Rise & Fall
20 March 2023Perhaps one of the best-known modern dictators, Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq for nearly 30 years before eventually being overthrown in 2003 by the US...
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Soviet "Bone Music"
20 March 2023While rifling through a stall at a flea market in Leningrad- now St Petersburg- composer and music producer Stephen Coates came across something...
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32:25
Assassins vs Templars: Rise of the Assassins
19 March 2023Using targeted political murder to protect humanity from injustice and abuse of power, the Assassins are infamous as much for their secrecy as for...
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45:11
Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World
19 March 2023Over 100 miles further than the northern reaches of Britain, beyond Orkney, are a remote group of islands that make up Shetland. It’s one of the...
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34:31
Tabasco Sauce
19 March 2023Every bottle of Tabasco sauce on earth comes from one place - Avery Island, deep down in Louisiana. The same place where the sauce was invented by...
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32:18
How the Middle Ages Influences Music Today
18 March 2023In our modern and digital age, contemporary music has many influences: heartbreak, war, even climate change. But what about the Middle Ages? Has...
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44:50
WW2: Naval Power
17 March 2023In accounts of the Second World War, the role Navy's played is often overlooked. But the Navy's of both the Allied and Axis forces engaged in some...
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50:08
Female Nudity & Modesty
17 March 2023Why is the naked body of a life model more respected than a glamour model? Why has there been a resurgence in virtue policing? And why was Kate...
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39:34
The Death of Amy Dudley
17 March 2023On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire. But did she fall? Was she pushed? Or...
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45:02
Empire State Building
16 March 2023When it was completed in 1931, the Empire State Building became the tallest building in the world. While it has long been surpassed, it is still...
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Menstruation in Early Modern England
16 March 2023Today we know that menstruation is a biological process. There’s a great deal of scientific research that explains the menstrual cycle. But how...
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41:49
The Philistines
16 March 2023Perhaps best known from the Biblical tale of David and Goliath, the Philistines were an ancient civilisation who lived on the south coast of...
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Satire & Scandal in Georgian England
16 March 2023Can we trace the 'British sense of humour' back to the Georgian period? It was an age of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern...
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34:46
Concrete
15 March 2023Concrete is the second most used material on earth after only water. There are more than half a trillion tons of it weighing down the earth. Which...
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26:57
What is a Fascist?
15 March 2023This is everything you ever wanted to know about fascism. Are the British government's new proposals to stop refugee boats arriving fascistic?...
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38:04
Medieval Women: Beauty, Work & Pubic Hair
14 March 2023How would a medieval woman achieve a Brazilian bikini line? Why can’t you trust a nun in the night time? And what were women doing at Medieval...
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Lies that Misled Medieval People
14 March 2023Everyone lies from time to time but some lies have had a particular influence on world events and have even been a major factor in shaping...
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