History Hit Podcasts

Indecent Exposure

It 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...

Iranian Revolution

The current uprisings in Iran have connections that date back to the 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the country go from a monarchy, to an...

4. Tutankhamun: Inside the Tomb

4/4. Dan descends the very same stone steps into Tutankhamun's tomb that Carter did, 100 years earlier. From within the chamber, Dan and...

Becoming FDR

In August 1921, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was 39 years old, he contracted Polio, paralysing him from the waist down. Jonathan Darman tells Don...

Mary I: Myths Vs. Reality

Queen Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She reigned - as England’s first Queen Regnant - between 1553-1558. Unlike...

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun 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...

3. Tutankhamun: The Life of a Boy Pharaoh

3/4. How much do we know about Tutankhamun, his short life and even shorter reign? Dan unravels the complicated legacy of Tutankhamun's...

Online Advertising

What was the first ever internet ad? When was the last time someone actually clicked on one? What happened to all the proper ads with catchy...

2. Tutankhamun: The Discovery of a Lifetime

2/4. Dan dives into Carter’s obsession with Tutankhamun and the trials and idiosyncrasies that made him the right man for the discovery. Dan...

Vikings in Britain: New Evidence

Archeological evidence of the Vikings as far north as Northumbria has practically been non-existent. On Gone Medieval in May 2021, Dr. Cat Jarman...

Gothic Fiction

From Dracula, to Frankenstein, to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, to Twilight’s Edward Cullen…when did our fascination with gothic fiction...

Tutankhamun: The Valley of the Kings

1/4. On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor lie the burial chambers of some of Ancient Egypt's greatest pharaohs - Ramses II, Seti I and...

Sleepy Hollow & the Haunted Hudson

On Halloween, Elizabeth Bradley tells Don about Washington Irving's famous story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, its headless horseman and the...

Sorcery and the Tudor Court

It's a little known fact that the Tudor monarchs and their councillors used - and feared - magic and the occult. At this time of great religious...

Tactical Nuclear Weapons

In a scathing attack on the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the world faces its most dangerous decade since WW2 - having...

Smugglers of Jamaica Inn

Stories of shipwrecks, smugglers and ghosts. Built in the mid-18th century, over the years many of the Jamaica Inn's patrons have been less...

Ukraine's Ancient Greek City

Located in modern day Ukraine, Olbia was the largest ancient Greek settlement on the coast of the Black Sea. A mix of Scythian and Greek culture,...

Paranormal Technology

Welcome to Patented-Gone-Paranormal!! Thomas Edison tried to make a telephone that called the spirit world. One of the pioneers of radio believed...

Vlad the Impaler

Vlad the Impaler - Vlad Dracula - is one of history’s most brutal figures, who has enjoyed a bizarre afterlife as a cult character. Although a...

Seances

Everybody hold hands! We're going for a seance!

How long have we've been trying to talk to dead people for? And have we ever actually been...

Blitzkrieg: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored It

Here’s a special episode of Cautionary Tales, a podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries.

On Cautionary Tales, bestselling author...