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 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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30:02
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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41:15
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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23:43
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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48:48
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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35:33
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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36:52
Wedding Dresses
24 February 2023In the UK, just over half of people above the age of 16 are married. Whether in a registry office, a place of worship or a remote beach somewhere...
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Russia & Ukraine: A Year of War
24 February 2023On the 24th of February, 2022, the world looked on in disbelief as Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One year on he shows...
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48:09
America and the Haiti Revolution
23 February 2023The revolution in Haiti freed the country from French control and created the first Black republic after years of fighting, in 1804. Leslie...
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35:25
The Origins of Buddhism
23 February 2023One of the oldest religions in the world, Buddhism is practiced by over 400 million people today, but where did it originate from? Pioneered by...
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30:41
The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
23 February 2023In the early seventeenth century, a Hungarian aristocrat called Erzsébet Báthory - or Elizabeth Bathory - was accused of murdering more than 600...
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40:33
History of Britain's Black Airmen
23 February 2023When you think of some of the remarkable feats of airpower throughout history, you might think of the Dambusters, or the Battle of Britain. But...
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The Rise and Fall of the BlackBerry
22 February 2023At its peak, the BlackBerry was the world’s most popular smartphone with almost 50% of the US market. They were called the ‘CrackBerry’ so...
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36:55
The Gough Map: One of Britain's Earliest Maps
21 February 2023Maps. They are an essential part of modern life. But when and how did people in medieval Britain first start mapping their surroundings? The Gough...
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Cooking for Churchill: Georgina Landemare
21 February 2023Clear soup, Irish stew and steamed puddings - this was the war work of Georgina Landemare, the Churchills’ longest-serving...
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