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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Children in Tudor England
13 February 2023What was it like to grow up in Tudor England? How were children cared for, what did they play with, and which subjects were they taught?
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How The USA Supplied WW2
13 February 2023Before America officially entered the Second World War in December 1941, it offered the allies significant support in terms of military supplies...
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33:12
The Muppets Take Moscow!
13 February 2023Car bombings, assassinations and a military takeover: these are just some of the things American TV producer Natasha Lance Rogoff and her team...
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Snakes & Ladders: Tantric Mysticism, Cosmic Serpents and the Meaning of Life
12 February 2023It turns out that all those times you played Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders) as a child you were playing a game that once symbolised the...
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36:16
Cleopatra's Daughter
12 February 2023Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous individuals from the ancient world. The final Queen of Ancient Egypt, and a woman who used her position to...
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36:33
Origins of Treason in England
11 February 2023First defined in law in 1352, treason remains one of the most serious crimes a person can commit. And, remarkably, the core of the original...
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Food, Sin & Shame
10 February 2023Why might a medieval nun drink the pus of an ill patient? Where does ‘fishy Friday’ come from? And what does all of this have to do with...
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38:47
Nuclear Near Misses
10 February 2023What happens when a nuclear bomb is accidentally dropped onto foreign soil? Or when a nuke just goes missing? Rather worryingly, it happens more...
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29:13
Pre-historic Women
10 February 2023For years we've understood that in the prehistoric hunter-gather world, the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering. Prehistoric man...
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The Battle of Valcour Island
9 February 2023The first naval engagement of the American War of Independence took place on Lake Champlain, which straddles modern-day New York state and Vermont...
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50:05
The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
9 February 2023This month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates four of history’s most notorious murders and brutal crimes.
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55:55
Homo Erectus
9 February 2023Before modern humans walked the earth, and even before the Neanderthals, Homo Erectus dominated the plains of Africa. Eventually migrating across...
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36:44
Dan, The Skeletons and The Battle of Waterloo
9 February 2023Dan Snow’s History Hit hits the road to Belgium and the Waterloo Battlefield to see the soldier’s bones found in an attic earlier this...
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31:51
Farming
8 February 2023Exactly when, where, how, why our ancient ancestors ‘invented’ farming is one of the great questions of archaeology.
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36:47
Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.
8 February 2023Aethelfled, a warrior queen who crushed the Vikings, Jadwiga, the first Queen Regent of Poland and Hildegard of Bingen, an 11th-century polymath...
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26:34
The Monastery That Held Back the Vikings
7 February 2023For monks and monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England, obliteration by Vikings was a constant threat. Like Lindisfarne - first raided in 793 AD -...
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28:59
The Real Casanova
7 February 2023Can you imagine being SO smooth-talking and seductive your surname becomes an actual noun in the dictionary to describe someone who has a...
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The Real Casanova
7 February 2023Content Warning This episode contains adult themes and language that may not be suitable for children.
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41:15
Jamestown
6 February 2023In late April 1607, three ships carrying a hundred men and boys arrived in Chesapeake Bay, having set sail from London four months earlier. They...
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41:33
The History of Britain's Black Airmen
6 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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Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s Queen Consort
6 February 2023Charles I's Queen Henrietta Maria was perhaps the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's three kingdoms. To this day, she...
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