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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A History of Porn
20 January 2023What did porn look like before the internet? Who was it for? And how has it changed since?
In this episode, Kate chats to Kathleen Lubey, a...
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25:11
WW2 US Marines: Devil Dogs
20 January 2023Founded in 1775, the United States Marines Corps (colloquially known as the US Marines) have a long standing history, and a reputation that...
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25:39
WWI Lifesavers and Body Snatchers
20 January 2023The brutal nature of the First World War presented frontline medical personnel with an array of horrific and debilitating wounds, inflicted on a...
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33:20
Ellis Island
19 January 2023From the 1880s to the 1920s the United States experienced a huge wave of immigration. People fleeing poverty and political instability in Europe,...
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45:10
The Parthenon
19 January 2023The unofficial 8th wonder the Ancient World, the Parthenon is still standing today. Located on the Acropolis in Athens, towering above a busy,...
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37:43
Swords in Elizabethan England
19 January 2023In Elizabethan England, swords were everywhere. Hanging on girdles, used in plays and depicted in paintings, they were an important marker of...
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28:30
Zheng He: The Ming Dynasty Explorer
19 January 2023The Ming Dynasty emerged in the second half of the 14th century, having achieved a hard-won victory over the declining Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
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30:04
Sawing Someone in Half Trick
18 January 2023When this trick was first performed, ushers poured buckets of blood down the gutter outside the theatre to entice people into the macabre...
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23:28
North America's French Indian War
18 January 2023As the British and French colonies in North America expanded in the middle of the 18th century, they inevitably clashed. Fighting between the two...
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34:33
Ireland's First Convicted Witch
17 January 2023In 1324, Alice Kyteler became the first woman in Britain and Ireland to be tried for witchcraft. Married to four different husbands - all of whom...
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32:26
The Blues
17 January 2023So much of today’s music takes inspiration from the Blues, but where did Blues music itself come from?
Kate is joined by Lamont Jack...
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29:03
Hitler and Mussolini
17 January 2023Just over 100 years ago, in October 1922, Mussolini and 30,000 Blackshirts marched on Rome. It was a mass demonstration that would see his...
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34:51
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
16 January 2023Dr Martin Luther King Jr was one of the figureheads of the civil rights movement in America. On 28th August 1963, he made one of the greatest...
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44:23
Spitfires of the Sea
16 January 2023After the fall of France during the Second World War, Britain became an isolated nation - dependent on the strength of it's coastal forces to keep...
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57:52
Demonic Possession in 17th-Century Canada
16 January 2023When strange signs appeared in the sky over Quebec in 1660, the French settlers started to worry about evil forces in their midst. Then, a...
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20:40
Churchill's Surprising Career in Scotland
16 January 2023Winston Churchill is possibly the most famous politician in British history. Throughout his career, he would hold numerous positions in...
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28:05
Levi's Jeans
15 January 2023150 years ago a patent was lodged for the first ever pair of jeans (what we’d think of as jeans today at least). There were two names on it. One...
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54:11
Orkney: Centre of the Stone Age
15 January 2023Orkney, a group of islands off Britain’s north coast, famed for their stunning, rural scenery. But 5,000 years ago, during the Neolithic Period...
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27:09
The Prester John Myth
14 January 2023Matt Lewis continues his Mystery Month on Gone Medieval with another tantalising enigma of the Middle Ages - the legendary figure of Prester...
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47:01
J. Edgar Hoover & The FBI
13 January 2023Known today as one of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world - the Federal Bureau of Investigation, more colloquially known as...
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55:44
Royal Sibling Rifts
13 January 2023Just in case you haven’t heard, a certain prince has released a memoir recently detailing a challenging relationship between him and his...
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