History Hit Podcasts
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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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42:49
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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36:51
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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41:45
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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36:58
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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33:25
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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42:35
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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43:46
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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31:17
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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47:51
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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The Psychiatric Hospital that Fought the Nazis
9 March 2023There are descriptions of suffering early in this episode that some listeners may find distressing.
As hospitals and institutions across...
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29:27
The First Computer Program
8 March 2023This is the story of the first modern computer program and the extraordinary woman who wrote it, Klara von Neumann.
The program Klara wrote...
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29:44
The Women Who Organised the Battle of Britain
8 March 2023In a suburb of North-West London, among housing estates and residential streets lies a secret bunker, you may never have heard of it but it's one...
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41:59
From Eve to Austen: Women in Literature
7 March 2023Why might a woman have willingly confined herself to a cell for the rest of her life? Why have so many female authors in history published under...
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Medieval Women with Eleanor Janega
7 March 2023What made for the ideal woman in the Middle Ages? In her new book The Once and Future Sex, Dr. Eleanor Janega looks at what beauty,...
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Uniting Europe After WWII
7 March 2023Count Coudenhove-Kalergi was one of the most influential 20th Century European thinkers that you've never heard of. He was a pioneer of European...
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