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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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.
Surely if we can...
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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.
On this special network crossover...
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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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28:31
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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30:35
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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