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 Short History of Seances
27 October 2022From their origins in necromancy to their ritualisation in the religion of Spiritualism, seances have long been a staple in the occultist's...
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40:48
America's Psychedelic '60s: Timothy Leary and LSD
27 October 2022In 1963, a Gilded Age estate in Millbrook, New York, became a venue for academic research into therapeutic uses for LSD, led by psychologist...
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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India
27 October 2022In 1611, the daughter of a Persian nobleman and widow of a subversive official, became the 20th and favourite wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir....
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43:49
Colosseum
27 October 2022Nicknamed the 8th wonder of the ancient world, the Colosseum still stands in splendour today. Located in the heart of Rome, nestled at the bottom...
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Elizabeth Báthory: The Vampire of Hungary
26 October 2022The inspiration behind countless gothic novels, Countess Elizabeth Báthory is said to be one of the most prolific serial killers of all time,...
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Nuclear Fusion Power
26 October 2022For almost a century we’ve been trying to build a star on earth. Not easy with temperatures reaching 150,000,000℃.
Today on Patented...
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Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
25 October 2022Was Rasputin really Russia’s greatest love machine? Did he have any healing powers? And why might his penis be pickling in a jar?
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42:36
Ghosts
25 October 2022How long have people believed in ghosts?
Eleanor Janega is back Betwixt the Sheets with Kate to tell us why you should always stand up to...
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30:47
Who were the Africans in Medieval Britain?
25 October 2022Earlier this month, it was reported that DNA analysis of the skeleton of a 10-year-old girl buried in Kent in the 7th century showed she was of...
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23:28
The Extraordinary Life of James Harley
24 October 2022James Arthur Stanley Harley was a scholar, reverend, politician, and perhaps aristocrat. Born in a poor village in the Caribbean island of...
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TUTANKHAMUN: Mini-Series Coming Soon!
24 October 2022On the 1st of November comes an immersive mini-series telling the story of one of the great discoveries of all time: the tomb of Tutankhamun. For...
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40:53
The Oregon Trail
24 October 2022From the 1830s until the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, hundreds of thousands of people packed their possessions into wagons and headed...
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43:25
Edward VI & The Prayer Book Rebellion
24 October 2022The so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion” of 1549 saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rising up against the young King Edward VI, determined to...
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40:19
Origins of Modern Iran
24 October 2022As protests continued across Iran last week, a number of Iranian-made kamikaze drones were fired by Russian forces at targets thousands of miles...
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Battle of El Alamein Explained
23 October 2022Fought in the second half of 1942, the Battles of El Alamein were a series of climactic confrontations in Egypt between British Imperial and...
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The First Black Archaeologist
23 October 2022Born to slaves in 1863, John Wesley Gilbert was the first student of the Paine Institute, a graduate of Brown University, and the first black...
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Linoleum
23 October 2022Linoleum, or “lino”, once ruled the world (of flooring). It appeared everywhere from the Titanic to your gran’s kitchen. But where did it...
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King Charles VI of France
22 October 2022On 21 October 1422 - 600 years ago - King Charles VI of France died at the age of 53 after reigning for 42 years. He was known as both Charles le...
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The Grisly Deaths of Kings & Queens
21 October 2022Did Henry VIII really have syphilis? Who died from a red hot poker up the bum? And which king was taken down by a school of fish?
To learn...
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44:54
First Indochina War: Dien Bien Phu
21 October 2022The siege of Dien Bien Phu took place in 1954 and was a definitive victory for Vietnam. Although the battle brought an end to French colonial...
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The Battle of Trafalgar
20 October 2022On 21 October 1805, A British fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson met the combined might of the French and Spanish fleets off the coast...
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