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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The Tomb of Tutankhamun
10 November 2022In November of 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter, thanks to benefactor Lord Carnarvon, discovered the untouched tomb of Tutankhamun....
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Inca Apocalypse
10 November 2022For many, the word Inca conjures up images of an ancient civilisation in South America, swiftly conquered by the Spanish in their quest for gold...
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The Crown: A Short History of British Monarchy
10 November 2022For at least 1,500 years, since the mists swirling around the Dark Ages began to clear, the British Isles have had monarchical rulers. For...
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Canned Food
9 November 2022Hope you’re hungry because today we’re opening a can of historical worms as we discover the origins of canned food.
How did canned...
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 November 2022On November 9th, 1989, 33 years ago to the day, the Berlin Wall that had symbolised the ideological and physical division of Europe came crumbling...
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Sex in Ancient China
8 November 2022How did the people of Ancient China think about sex?
From sexual vampirism to unrealistic representations of courtesan culture, from wife...
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Britain’s Lost Kingdoms
8 November 2022Britain was once a mosaic of small kingdoms, some of which have vanished without a trace. In his new book Lost Realms, Thomas Williams,...
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Origins of Modern Iran
8 November 2022As protests continued across Iran, a number of Iranian-made kamikaze drones were fired by Russian forces at targets thousands of miles away in...
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54:10
The Race for the North Pole
7 November 2022On April 6th 1909, deep inside the Artic Circle after months on the ice, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and their four Inuit guides reached what...
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WW2: Battle of El Alamein
7 November 2022The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a key turning point in the Second World War - a moment when the Allies were no longer on the defensive, but...
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Life in Tudor England
7 November 2022What was life really like in Tudor England? This was a society where monarchy was under strain, the church was in crisis, where contending with...
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The Birth of the CIA
7 November 2022American intelligence services like the CIA are commonly thought of as global behemoths of international surveillance and covert operations,...
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The World's Earliest Cave Art
6 November 2022200,000 years ago in what is now Tibet, two children left a set of hand and foot prints on a travertine boulder, still identifiable today and is...
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Rise and Fall of Zeppelins
6 November 2022They were cigars the size of ocean liners that floated through the clouds. Cow intestines filled with hydrogen held them up. The world’s first...
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The Czech Braveheart: Jan Žižka
5 November 2022Jan Žižka is the legendary Czech national hero who led Hussite forces against three crusades and never lost a single battle. His rise to...
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54:20
Indecent Exposure
4 November 2022It can happen on a bus, in a park, in your home, at the school gates. An estimated one in every ten women in England and Wales have reported it...
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Iranian Revolution
4 November 2022The current uprisings in Iran have connections that date back to the 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the country go from a monarchy, to an...
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4. Tutankhamun: Inside the Tomb
4 November 20224/4. Dan descends the very same stone steps into Tutankhamun's tomb that Carter did, 100 years earlier. From within the chamber, Dan and...
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Becoming FDR
3 November 2022In August 1921, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was 39 years old, he contracted Polio, paralysing him from the waist down. Jonathan Darman tells Don...
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Tutankhamun
3 November 2022Tutankhamun is one of the most famous names in ancient history. Known as the 'Boy King', he ascended the Egyptian throne at the age of 9 and ruled...
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Mary I: Myths Vs. Reality
3 November 2022Queen Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She reigned - as England’s first Queen Regnant - between 1553-1558. Unlike...
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