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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Erotic Medieval Poet: Gwerful Mechain
4 March 2023Wales in the Medieval period had a thriving bardic tradition and one poet is particularly fascinating. Gwerful Mechain lived in the second half of...
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The History of Periods
3 March 2023‘It’s my time of the month’, ‘the painters are in’, ‘aunt flo is visiting’, or a simple ‘I’m on the rag’
Periods are a...
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1917 Russian Revolution with Antony Beevor
3 March 2023One of the most significant events of the 20th century, the 1917 Russian Revolution saw the overthrow of the Tsar and the birth of a new communist...
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22:02
The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
3 March 2023102 year old Ben Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials and a direct witness to the horrors of the Nazi death camps....
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George III - The Last King of America
2 March 2023George III is forever known as the king who lost the 13 American colonies. In the US he is thought of by many as a tyrant king, taxing and...
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36:51
Jews & the Inquisition in Italy
2 March 2023Between 1598 and 1785, the Papal or Roman Inquisition in Modena, Northern Italy, put 393 Jews on trial. Regarded as infidels, Jews were accused...
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40:39
The First Humans
2 March 2023Where do humans come from? Or, perhaps more interestingly, who did humans evolve from? A question once posed by the likes of Charles Darwin and...
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35:25
Lady Hamilton: Nelson's Mistress
2 March 2023The Kim Kardashian of Georgian England; she was a young housemaid who became one of the most famous socialites in the Western world and stole the...
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30:51
Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
1 March 2023It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing...
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25:28
The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
1 March 2023Matt Lewis continues his Mystery Month on Gone Medieval with another tantalising enigma of the Middle Ages - possibly the most mysterious...
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28:40
Vikings & The Rus in Medieval Ukraine
28 February 2023One year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. While the invasion and subsequent war have largely been driven by modern geopolitics, the history of...
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45:14
The Real Bridgerton
28 February 2023The first series of Bridgerton broke viewership records and became the biggest series on Netflix ever when it first came out. But a raunchy period...
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Sabotage, Nazis and the Atomic Bomb: Operation Gunnerside
28 February 2023In late February 1943, Norwegian commandos were given the details of their mission, Operation Gunnerside. Their job would be to sabotage the...
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The Race That Sold The Car To America
27 February 2023On a cold winter morning in February 1908, six cars lined up in Times Square, attempting to be the first to drive from New York to Paris, the long...
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37:12
The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D'état
27 February 2023As Cold War tensions escalated in the early 1950s, the White House became obsessed with one core goal: Containing Communism. Nowhere was this more...
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Enheduanna: The World's First Author
27 February 2023It's hard to imagine a time when we didn't write things down- on stone, papyrus or parchment. Who was the first to actually put 'pen to paper' and...
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40:27
The Death of Amy Dudley
27 February 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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Shirin: Heroine of Iran
26 February 2023Princess, Queen, and political influencer - Shirin should be a name as famed as Cleopatra, but how come so few know of her? Coming to influence in...
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30:03
Instant Noodles
26 February 2023In the year 2000 Japan was asked what its greatest invention of the twentieth century was. They had a LOT to choose from. The Walkman. The bullet...
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Birth of Cornwall
25 February 2023In the fifth century, Western Europe began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire. In south-west...
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37:03
Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: 1 Year On
24 February 2023One year ago today, on February 24th 2022, the world watched as Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite intelligence gathered...
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