History Hit Podcasts
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The Murder of Charles I
6 February 2023It's 1660 and General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law board a ship bound for the New World. They're on the run, wanted for the murder of King...
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41:40
Spam: Birth of a Monster
5 February 2023Spam Spam Spam, glorious Spam! Who invented Spam Emails? Just how much Spam activity is there online? And how will we survive once Spam AI gets...
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51:50
Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
5 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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35:58
Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
4 February 2023Edward III wed Philippa of Hainault when they were both teenagers. It was a marriage of deep affection lasting 41 years. But when Alice Perrers...
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37:42
Stalingrad
3 February 2023The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle of the Second World War, seeing 1.2 million killed, and thousands more wounded. One of the most...
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35:45
Marie Stopes: Birth Control & Eugenics
3 February 2023Why would someone disown their son over a pair of glasses? How could an unmarried woman in 1918 have published a book about sexual pleasure? And...
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21:43
Sex
3 February 2023250 million years ago the armour-plated Placoderm fish invented the act of sex as we know it. Hubba Hubba. Dive into the historical sack as we go...
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40:50
The First American in Space
2 February 2023In Spring 1961, the Space Race between the US and Soviet Union was well underway. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in Space...
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47:24
Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of Renaissance France
2 February 2023Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was an influential diplomat and political activist, an outstanding patron of philosophers and artists, an...
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52:59
The Nazca Lines
2 February 2023Carved into the Peruvian landscape over a millennia ago, the Nazca lines are some of the most famed, and ancient, geoglyphs in the world. When...
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42:02
The End of Stalingrad
2 February 2023Stalingrad is one of the most titanic and totemic battles of the Second World War. Millions were killed, the city itself was utterly shattered by...
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32:42
Fonts
1 February 2023Fonts are usually invisible to us; we absorb the written word without noticing the medium (unless someone sends you an email in comic...
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21:15
Normans, Romans and Victorians: History of England's New Forest
1 February 2023Where can you find an Iron Age fort, Roman kilns, trees built for Nelson's navy and the hunting lodge of William the Conqueror? In the place...
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32:43
The Danelaw
31 January 2023The Danelaw was the part of England where large numbers of Scandinavians settled between the 9th and 11th centuries, and where Danish rather than...
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47:18
Prison Plastic Surgery
31 January 2023Facelifts, liposuction and nose jobs: since the mid 20th century people have saved up to have their faces and bodies transformed into their...
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22:33
The Truth About Area 51
31 January 2023Fake moon landings, aliens and secret weapons; conspiracy theories about Area 51 abound but what exactly is it, and do we know anything about it...
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38:03
Yellowstone
30 January 2023For thousands of years, nomadic Native American peoples crossed the Yellowstone River basin, in awe of its stunning landscape and geothermal...
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44:11
When London Shipped Poor Children to America
30 January 2023In 1618, almost 100 impoverished children from London - some as young as eight - arrived in Jamestown, Virginia to labour in the growing colony....
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47:03
Eisenhower's Wars
30 January 2023Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890, before the Wright Brothers had completed man's first flight, and died just weeks short of man's first steps...
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46:08
Pacification in the Vietnam War
30 January 2023This year marks the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. It was one of the most costly conflicts that the U.S. has...
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32:16
The IQ Test
29 January 2023How would you feel if you found out you had a very high or a very low IQ? Would it change you? The IQ test has an awful allure to it. A single...
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