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 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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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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CIA: The History
20 October 2022When the Central Intelligence Agency was created by President Truman in 1947, it was the latest incarnation of an American intelligence-gathering...
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Eustace Chapuys: Ambassador to the Tudor Court
20 October 2022Historians would be completely lost without the colourful, crucial insights of Eustace Chapuys, the Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII's court from...
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Virgil
20 October 2022One of Antiquity's greatest poets, Virgil's legacy is seen across history. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor's Homer and Hesiod -...
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FORENSICS: The Beginning
19 October 2022Death by tiger bites. Death by prodding. Death from sexual excess. Deaths from over-eating and over-drinking. The opening of graves.
These...
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How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon
19 October 2022If a Victorian met Elon Musk they would completely get him. The world’s richest man, determined to use technology that doesn’t yet exist to...
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Mary Seacole: Doctress of the Crimean War
18 October 2022Born Mary Jane Grant in the colony of Kingston, Jamaica, in November 1805, Mary would later become a businesswoman, traveller and healer....
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Medieval Pubs
18 October 2022For centuries, the pub has played a central role in our lives and communities. Throughout Britain, there are many pubs saying that they are the...
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Black Georgians
18 October 2022Who were Ignatius Sancho, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Francis Barber?
Between 10,000 and 30,000 black people lived in Britain during the...
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31:24
Britain's Worst Prime Minister
17 October 2022Could Liz Truss be Britain's worst Prime Minister? As the political scene in the UK hurtles into further disarray, Dan gets together historians...
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34:53
The US Marines' Pacific War
17 October 2022When US Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific, in August 1942, they were taking part in the first US ground offensive of...
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Battle of Midway
17 October 2022The Battle of Midway has gone down in history as a key turning point in the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War. In June 1942, the US Navy...
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46:31
Female Sodomy
17 October 2022Few cases of same-sex acts between women are known in early modern Europe. Yet in the Southern Netherlands, some 25 women were charged with...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
16 October 2022In October 1962 the world came very close to annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the autumn of 1962, a U2 reconnaissance aircraft...
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End of Stone Age Orkney
16 October 2022Around 5200 years ago, during the Neolithic period, when farming first took hold, Orkney was a hugely influential cultural centre. Yet, as Europe...
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Eco Farming
16 October 2022George Washington Carver is well known to Americans as the Peanut Man. It’s been written of him that ‘peanuts were like paintbrushes: They...
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