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 Atomic Bomb & the Secret City
22 September 2022In 1939 Franklin D Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein, warning him that the Nazis might be developing nuclear...
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Karnak: Egypt's Greatest Temple
22 September 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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Slavery and the Royal African Company
22 September 2022The Royal African Company was set up in 1660 - by the ruling Stuart family and City of London merchants - to exploit gold fields up the Gambia...
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Suleyman the Magnificent
21 September 2022The Lion House is a riveting new book from journalist and historian Christopher De Bellaigue, written like a novel that tells the dramatic story...
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Perfume
21 September 2022First Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel shocked the world’s eyeballs with her fashion designs. Then she shocked its nostrils with a new smell - Chanel...
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The Man Wrongfully Hanged at Cardiff Prison
20 September 2022In September 1952 Mahmood Hussein Mattan became the last to be executed at Cardiff Prison, but Mahmood had in fact been framed by the police and...
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Forbidden Books
20 September 2022What makes a book bad? Does it have to be nonsensical? Heretical? Libellous? Sexy?
Well for 500 years, a panel from the Roman Catholic...
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Viking Sagas
20 September 2022Few people in European history have had as many stories told about them as the Vikings. We know about them from novels, films, TV series and...
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Fighter Jets: A History
20 September 2022This month marks 75 years since the establishment of the United States Air Force (USAF). So to mark this anniversary, we wanted to follow up on...
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Scottish Clans
19 September 2022It is believed clans started to emerge in Scotland around 1100AD and were originally the descendants of kings – if not of demigods from Irish...
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Art of Neolithic Orkney
18 September 2022Located in the Northern Isles of Scotland, Orkney is a remote and wild environment. With over 5000 years of history, this small archipelago of...
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FORENSICS: The Beginning
18 September 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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Essex Dogs and the Crécy Campaign with Dan Jones
17 September 2022Dan Jones is world-famous for writing swashbuckling factual history. But now he’s turned his hand to historical fiction with a debut...
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Women in Power
16 September 2022What do Hatshepsut and Hillary Clinton have in common?
Well, what do they have in common with the vast majority of women who have been so...
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Mikhail Gorbachev & the Fall of the Soviet Union
16 September 2022Following the recent death of Mikhail Gorbachev at the age of 91, we've decided to take a look into the beginnings, career and legacy of the last...
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The Mayflower Sets Sail
15 September 2022On the 16th of September 1620, The Mayflower set sail from Southampton to the New World. Aboard were 102 passengers determined to reach a new...
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The Howard Women
15 September 2022We tend to associate the word ‘dynasty’ with men. But in sixteenth century England, women played a no less important role in these influential...
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Neanderthals
15 September 2022Neanderthals are stereotypically viewed as thoughtless savages - but is this an accurate depiction or was there more to Neanderthal...
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Queen Victoria's Funeral
14 September 2022The Queen's body has been taken to Westminster Hall in London, where she will lie in state for the public to visit and pay their respects. Over...
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PowerPoint
14 September 2022We take PowerPoint for granted. It's as much a fact of life as concrete. Or rainy afternoons. But it hasn’t always been here. It has a story....
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9/11: New York City in the Aftermath
13 September 2022Ray Victor is a lifelong New Yorker and tour guide from Queens. He remembers 11th of September 2001 vividly, when hijacked planes were flown into...
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