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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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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The Romanovs
9 October 2022The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of...
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Punk & the Sex Pistols
9 October 2022Have you ever heard the story of how punk began?
“They are Dickensian-like urchins who with ragged clothes and pockmarked faces roam the...
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33:47
Race in Antiquity
9 October 2022History is littered with devastating accounts of prejudice that shines a harsh light on the atrocities humans have inflicted on each other for...
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DNA and Jewish Persecution in Medieval Britain
8 October 2022When the skeletons of six adults and 11 children were found at the bottom of a Medieval well in Norwich in 2004, they were thought perhaps to be...
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Pirates of the American Revolution
7 October 2022When we think of pirates our minds turn to figures both real and fictitious such as Blackbeard and Long John Silver, or perhaps even Somali...
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Phobias & Manias
7 October 2022What did Salvador Dali, Elizabeth I and Sigmund Freud have in common? They all had phobias, and it's possible you do too.
As ‘normal’ as...
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Outlaws, Cattle Rustling and Bootlegging: The Life of Josie Bassett
6 October 2022Josie Bassett Morris' life epitomised the Wild West. She grew up on a homestead in the late 18th century, in Northern Utah, USA. Their home was...
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Charles Ignatius Sancho: From Slavery to High Society
6 October 2022Please note that this episode contains discussion of racist language.
Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic...
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Central Park: What Lies Beneath
6 October 2022Central Park is an oasis of nature in New York City, amidst the countless skyscrapers and gridded streets of Manhattan. Over 800 acres of sweeping...
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March of the 10,000
6 October 2022Recorded by Xenophon, the 10,000 were a force of Greek mercenaries employed by Cyrus the Younger, with the aim of taking back the Persian Empire...
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The Legacy of the Mary Rose
6 October 2022The raising of the Mary Rose 40 years ago - along with some 19,000 objects which sank with her - has become a great boon to Tudor historians,...
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Recorded Sound
5 October 2022From talking sponges to voices frozen in ice, the history of recorded sound is not what you expect.
People fantasised about being able to...
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The Troubles Begin
4 October 2022This episode will establish the century-long roots of sectarian tensions, paint a picture of the political atmosphere in Northern Ireland as the...
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Black Victorians
4 October 2022Why is there an assumption that Victorian Britain was white? Who does this mean is missing from our history books? And how can we find out more...
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Boy Kings of Medieval Europe
4 October 2022Charles III recently became King at the age of 73 - the oldest man ever to become a British monarch. That might not seem so odd to us today, but...
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Remembering Hilary Mantel
3 October 2022Dame Hilary Mantel died on 22 September 2022 at the age of 70. Her acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy - which brought the life of Thomas Cromwell so...
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Pontiac's Rebellion
3 October 2022In 1763, Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region began fighting British expansion and rule in their territory, attacking forts and...
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