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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Rosa Parks
21 February 2023On the 1st of December, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After taking her seat in the section designated for people of...
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Samuel Adams
20 February 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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1993 World Trade Center Bombing
20 February 20239/11 remains the most infamous act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States - but it did not mark the first time terrorists had targeted...
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Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters Decoded
20 February 2023The most important discovery related to Mary Queen of Scots for 100 years was recently made - by a team of amateur cryptologists.
In...
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How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Humanity
20 February 2023We think of our natural environment as a subset of history, like studying the history of warfare or economics. But in truth, climate is the...
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God
19 February 2023If God invented Heaven and Earth, then who invented God? To explain how gods ‘are invented’, how they evolve and why so many seem to have...
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The Bantu Expansion
19 February 2023The Bantu expansion was one of the most significant cultural events in human history. Sometime between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago in Sub-Saharan...
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Women and the Crusades
18 February 2023Women were an integral feature of the crusade movement. They were not only sometimes participants on the battlefields but also played their part...
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Lenin's Rise & Fall
17 February 2023Vladimir Lenin is one name that is known across the world. Rising to power during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, he was the first Communist...
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Hag Horror: Older Women in Film
17 February 2023Why are women over the age of 50 so often cast as terrifying, decaying, manipulative people in Hollywood? When did this start? And how might it...
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Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
17 February 2023This episode contains graphic references.
Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology.
Her origin story is one of...
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Harriet Tubman
16 February 2023Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most famous African American woman in the world, but she’s usually remembered in two-dimensions - the hero of the...
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The Colossus of Rhodes
16 February 2023One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes has lived on in legend - with fact and fiction often blurring. A 108 ft high...
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The House of Guise: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty?
16 February 2023The rich and powerful Guise family was one of the most treacherous and bloodthirsty in sixteenth-century France. They whipped up religious...
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Spies in the Sky
16 February 2023Spy balloons are really blowing up right now. The US has shot down one confirmed Chinese balloon and has engaged several other unidentified flying...
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Archimedes & the Eureka! moment
15 February 2023It’s the most famous bath of all time. But what exactly was Archimedes so excited about?
We discover the truth behind the legend of...
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The Tragedy of HMS Captain
15 February 2023As a crew of over 500 boarded HMS Captain in the autumn of 1870, none of them knew their fate was sealed in the offices of the dockyard. The...
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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?
14 February 2023She was a woman of unparalleled power, descended from Julius Caesar and Augustus. But how did she get there, whilst most of the rest of her family...
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Sandby Borg Massacre: The Evidence
14 February 2023When archeologists uncovered a jewellery hoard buried beneath the Iron Age ring fort of Sandby Borg in 2010, their excitement was palpable. Yet...
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Nicholas Said: The Extraordinary Life of a Traveller, Soldier and Translator
14 February 2023This is the remarkable story of Nicholas Said - born into a wealthy Muslim family in the ancient Bornu Empire, his childhood was interrupted when,...
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A History of New York in 3 Hotels
13 February 2023The Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza and the Algonquin all tell their own stories of New York City. Don talks to Anthony Melchiorri, host of Travel...
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