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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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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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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Africans in Medieval Europe
15 October 2022Were sub-Saharan Africans present in Medieval Europe? Despite their absence from many histories, they were. Arriving as traders, as explorers, as...
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Henrietta Maria: The Most Hated Queen Consort?
14 October 2022What does it take to get the reputation as one of the least popular queens in history?
Should we remember Henrietta Maria as the wife of the...
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Oil & War
14 October 2022In a world so dependent on the need for oil and gas, it's no wonder why oil rich nations like Russia hold such power on the global stage. The...
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The Long History of African and Caribbean People in Britain
13 October 2022There remains a tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with...
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Edward Rulloff: The Gilded Age Hannibal Lecter
13 October 2022Edward Rulloff was described as “a monster imbued by the spirit of the devil”. In 1844, he murdered his wife, likely killing his daughter at...
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Rosetta Stone
13 October 2022In July 1799 a group of French soldiers stumbled upon a stone that was set to change our understanding of the ancient world.
The iconic...
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Women Letter Writers in the Early Modern Period
13 October 2022Historians face an enormous challenge finding documents that tell the stories of women in times past. In this episode of Not Just the Tudors,...
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Russia Falters in Ukraine: Parallels with WW1
12 October 2022Russia's current conflict in Ukraine was supposed to be a showcase of military prowess, a quick war that solidified her status as a great power....
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FORENSICS: DNA
12 October 2022The birth of DNA fingerprinting will forever be tied to Leicester, England. It was invented in a lab in the city’s university by Alec Jeffreys...
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The US and The Holocaust
11 October 2022After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, thousands of German Jews facing systematic persecution wanted to flee the Third Reich but found few...
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Serial Killers & Misogyny
11 October 2022What is it with our culture’s fascination with serial killers? Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Peter Sutclifffe, Jack the Ripper….these violent...
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Ogham: A Forgotten Medieval Alphabet
11 October 2022Across the world, a wide range of writing systems developed in diverse societies and Medieval Europe was no different. Apart from the Latin...
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Karnak: Egypt's Greatest Temple
10 October 2022Located on the banks of the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt, the Karnak Temple complex is one of the largest buildings ever constructed for religious...
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Cuban Missile Crisis
10 October 2022In October 1962, the United States confirmed that Soviet missiles were being deployed in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy had to contemplate the...
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Escape from Colditz with Ben Macintyre
10 October 2022In World War Two the ancient fortress of Colditz Castle was used by the German Army to hold its most defiant prisoners of war. Located near...
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Malay’s Dynasty of Reigning Queens
10 October 2022The Sultanate of Patani - now part of modern day Thailand - enjoyed a golden age during the reign of four successive queens, which commenced in...
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