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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Eunuchs
24 January 2023From Ancient Assyria to the Byzantine Empire, from the Qing dynasty’s Forbidden City to 19th century operas; Eunuchs have been present across a...
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Battle of Waterloo Skeletons Found in Attic!
24 January 2023Waterloo was one of the bloodiest battles in European history, yet until now only two bodies have ever been found on the battlefield. The remains...
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The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
23 January 2023J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. He grew the FBI from a small, obscure operation to one that...
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26:46
Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History
23 January 2023In 1628, a Dutch East India flagship called Batavia set sail from the Netherlands, never to reach her destination. Eight months into the...
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The Bermuda Triangle: The Secret History of Flight 19
23 January 2023Located off the coast of Florida, Puerto Rico, and its namesake Bermuda - the mysterious Bermuda Triangle is an urban myth that's risen in...
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The First Indigenous Americans in Europe
23 January 20231492 marked the beginning of the Colombian Exchange - the transfer of people, goods, ideas and commodities across the Atlantic between Europe and...
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Caesarean section
22 January 2023A hundred years ago next to no one was born via Caesarean Section. Today, one in five new arrivals on planet earth come via a Caesarean. Its...
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The Great Serpent Mound
22 January 2023Located in the US State of Ohio, the Great Serpent Mound is an iconic monument of Ancient America. Nearly 1,400 feet long, and 3 feet high - it's...
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26:39
The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
21 January 2023Matt Lewis continues his Mystery Month on Gone Medieval with another tantalising enigma of the Middle Ages - possibly the most mysterious...
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46:39
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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