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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WW2: The British Resistance
5 September 2022If Germany's audacious plan to invade Britain - Operation Sea Lion - had succeeded, what exactly would the country's last line of defence have...
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The Man Who Rebuilt the Faces of WW1
4 September 2022The mechanised warfare of the First World War brought unprecedented new levels of firepower and destruction to the battlefield and with it...
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Contact Lenses
4 September 2022The Contact Lens. The humble Contact Lens. Oh boy, do we have a rip-roaring episode for you about the humble contact lens.
Nazi villains,...
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Rise of the Persians
4 September 2022The Achaemenid Empire, or better known as the First Persian Empire, was one of the largest empires in History - led by Cyrus the Great it covered...
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The Medieval Bishop’s Sex Workers
3 September 2022Outside Medieval London’s city walls, Southwark was a land without rules. It was the place where people went to indulge their love of theatre,...
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The Battle of Salamanca
2 September 2022The Battle of Salamanca was fought in Napoleonic Spain on 22 July 1812, during the Peninsula War. It pitted Lt Gen Arthur Arthur Wellesley, the...
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Mafia Women
2 September 2022Who was Pupetta Maresca? And what did she do to become the first woman in Italy to be prohibited from having a funeral?
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Prosthetics in Antiquity
1 September 2022Prosthetics - an artificial feature or body part commonly used to either help restore functions of lost limbs, or change a person's appearance....
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Shakespeare’s Henry V
1 September 2022This week marks 600 years since the death of King Henry V, perhaps best known for his military successes during the Hundred Years War against...
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Taiwan: China's Ukraine?
31 August 2022Located just 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, the nation of Taiwan sits in the so-called 'first island chain' - a group of US-friendly...
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Sports Bra
31 August 2022REAL LIFE INVENTOR ALERT!!!
Two jockstraps cleverly sewn together. That was how the very first sports bra was made in 1977. The product...
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Robin Hood
30 August 2022Robin Hood is one of the most famous legends of British history, but did he exist and if so who was he? Gareth Morgan, Learning Development...
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Britain After Rome
30 August 2022What really happened in Britain after the fall of Rome? How did people adapt to their new lives? How were new identities formed, and eventually...
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Charles II's Mistresses
30 August 2022Lucy Walter, Barbara Palmer, Louise Kérouaille and Nell Gwynn. These are the names of just a key few of King Charles II’s mistresses.
In...
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The March on Washington
29 August 2022On August 28, 1963, some 200,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to protest the continuing inequalities faced...
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Leonardo da Vinci
29 August 2022Painter, scientist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, urban planner, botanist, musician, philosopher, writer : Leonardo Da Vinci...
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A 16th Century Celebrity Executioner
29 August 2022The German executioner Meister Frantz Schmidt kept a fascinating journal of all the executions, torture and punishments he administered between...
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Al-Qaeda
29 August 2022Their attacks of September 11 2001 sparked a War on Terror which has a legacy that very much lasts to this day, but where did Al-Qaeda come from,...
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Storytime with the Snows: 1066
28 August 20221066 is one of the most critical and dramatic years in British history. In the space of one year, the country had three kings, three major battles...
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Cryptocurrency
28 August 2022If you feel confused and left behind by cryptocurrency then this is for you. We're taking you on a journey through the strange history of...
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Ancient Americas: the South American Stonehenge
28 August 2022One of the largest archaeological sites in South America, located near Lake Titicaca in Western Bolivia - Tiwanaku is a brilliantly mysterious...
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