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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Life in the Roman Army
25 August 2025Anno 117: Pax Romana is set in the year when the Roman Empire expanded to its greatest extent in all its history; and saw the death of Trajan, who...
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The Dark Side of Medieval England
25 August 2025This episode contains descriptions of execution and torture.
To be Hanged, Drawn & Quartered. Put on the Rack. Impaled on a spike. This list...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder in the Stuart Court
25 August 2025The public fascination with true crime is nothing new. Four centuries ago, the sensational story of the death in the Tower of London of...
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Knossos
24 August 2025You probably know the Ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, who lives in a labyrinth under Knossos on the island of Crete - was there...
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Origins of Homo Sapiens
24 August 2025Where do we come from? The origins of modern humans stretch back hundreds of thousands of years, and new discoveries are reshaping how we...
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How Hot Was Henry VIII?
22 August 2025With SIX wives, Henry VIII must have had something going for him, right? Was he handsome? Charming? Intelligent? Just plain powerful?
In...
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The Battle of Bosworth
22 August 2025A King clinging to his right to rule. A young Tudor ready to snatch the crown and begin a new dynasty.
With immersive sound design and...
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Emperor Nero
21 August 2025Emperor Nero has gone down in history as the archetypal bad ruler - cruel, decadent, and perhaps even responsible for setting Rome ablaze. But how...
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American Traitors: Axis Sally
21 August 2025Is contributing to enemy propaganda treason? In this second episode on American Traitors, we are meeting 'Axis Sally', real name Mildred...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Amy Dudley
21 August 2025**WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of suicide**
On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at...
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The Darkest Scandal in Victorian Britain
21 August 2025Today we step into the shadowy world of W.T. Stead—a Victorian journalist whose life was as controversial as it was...
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Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria
21 August 2025Known as the 'King of the World' and the last great king of Assyria, Ashurbanipal bestrode the ancient Mesopotamian world as a warrior but also a...
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The Colosseum
19 August 2025Join Dan in Rome as he unravels the dramatic story of the Colosseum and the gladiators who fought — and died — for glory. From the origins of...
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Medieval Obscenity
19 August 2025This episode contains obscene and sexual language throughout
The medieval world was far from prudish, it was positively bawdy. Writers,...
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The Real Virgin Mary
19 August 2025Why has the idea of the Virgin Mary’s virginity been so important?
What does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and...
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What If Lincoln Hadn't Been Shot?
18 August 2025It's the biggest 'What if?' in American history: What if Lincoln hadn't been shot? The assassination could so easily have failed and things went...
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New York's Wildest Murder Case
18 August 2025This 1897 New York murder case that has it all - a villain, an incredibly useless police force, and a duck who saves the day. The incredible Dr...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe
18 August 2025Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it? We're stepping out of the sun and into the shadows on Not Just the Tudors, as Professor...
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How Rome Built An Empire
18 August 2025In the new game Anno 117: Pax Romana, the Emperor has appointed you as governor, tasked with developing new provinces in the Empire.
It’s...
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Napoleon in Paris
17 August 2025Napoleon Bonaparte dreamed Paris would be the 'capital city of the universe' and much of what we see - and love - about Paris is thanks to him....
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The White Huns
17 August 2025The Huns weren’t just Attila’s warriors in Europe — in Central Asia, the White Huns built the most powerful Hunnic empire, ruling for a...
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