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 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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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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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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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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The Glencoe Massacre
14 March 2023Glencoe in the Scottish highlands is a beautiful landscape with a dark past. While folks from all over the world travel to this beautiful valley...
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The Erie Canal
13 March 2023Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Alice Shay tells Don how...
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The US & the Iraq War
13 March 20232023 marks the 20th anniversary of the US and its allies invading Iraq under the pretence to remove dictator Saddam Hussein and his apparent...
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Anne Boleyn’s Final Year
13 March 2023Anne Boleyn’s reputation is buried beneath centuries of labels: home-wrecker, seductress, opportunist, witch, romantic victim, Protestant...
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Assassins vs Templars: The Crusades
12 March 2023Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood spilled across three centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant, all under the sanction of the Latin...
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Ares: God of War
12 March 2023Ares is the god of war and bloodlust in Greek mythology.One of the twelve Olympian gods, Ares was often depicted as a fierce and bloodthirsty...
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Cold War Origins of Tanks in Ukraine
12 March 2023The war in Ukraine is being fought with tanks designed in the Cold War. The US Abrams. The German Leopard. The British Challenger. All have been...
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Drag Queens
12 March 2023RuPaul. Lily Savage. Bianca Del Rio. Dame Edna Everage. These iconic drag queens are household names, but have you ever heard about Princess...
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Battle of Towton
11 March 2023What do skeletal remains from the fifteenth century tell us about one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Wars of the Roses?...
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Women Rebels: The Spanish Civil War
10 March 2023From aristocratic rebels to Civil Rights activists, tens of thousands of people travelled to Spain during the Civil War - and not all of them were...
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Fighter Pilots of the Korean War
10 March 2023The Korean War was a vital moment in world history - changing geopolitics on the Korean Peninsula and beyond forever. With nearly 5 million dead,...
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Samuel Adams
10 March 2023One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Samuel Adams was a political force of nature. Stacy Schiff tells Don how Adams, fuelled by...
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First Ladies of the United States
9 March 2023Don talks to former White House reporter Kate Andersen Brower about how the role of First Lady has changed - and stayed the same - since the...
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Septimius Severus
9 March 2023Given his incredible career, you'd perhaps expect the name of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus to be better known. Born in North Africa in 145AD,...
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The Myth of 'Western Civilisation'
9 March 2023'Western Civilisation' is often thought of as a continuous thread through the centuries - from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern...
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