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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Barbie
31 July 2022Barbie. What is it about Barbie? Love her or loathe her this 11 ½ inch doll gets a big reaction.
Which is strange in a way because she’s...
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Hannibal vs Rome: The Road to Cannae
31 July 2022One of the greatest military commanders in history - it's no wonder Hannibal and Rome so frequently fought.
In the second episode of our...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
30 July 2022From an age in which women’s lives were obscured and poorly recorded, one shines brightly from the darkness. Eleanor of Aquitaine - born...
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North Korea & the Kim Dynasty
29 July 2022With Kim Jong-un having issued a new threat of nuclear war just this week on the anniversary of the Korean War armistice in 1953, we take a look...
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Witches
29 July 2022What comes to your mind when you think of a witch? Broomsticks? Black cats? Warts?
Early modern witchcraft expert, John Callow, is Betwixt...
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The Long Death of Slavery
28 July 2022We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, and in the United States during the Civil War. Yet, over...
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The Tudors and Food
28 July 2022What food - and how much of it - did people eat in the Tudor period? Where did they get it? When did they eat it? What arrangements for cookery...
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Yorkshire's Roman Mystery: The Ryedale Hoard
28 July 2022In May 2020, four unique Roman artefacts were unearthed near Ampleforth, North Yorkshire by two amateur metal detectorists. A bronze bust that is...
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Anne of Cleves
27 July 2022Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was...
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Contactless Payment
27 July 2022*tap* *tap* *tap*
That’s the sound of physical cash being consigned to the dustbin of history by us tapping cards/phones/watches...
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A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
26 July 2022The Ottoman Empire was gigantic; at one point it reached the walls of Vienna to the Persian Gulf and beyond. It was established at the end of the...
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The Norse Walrus Ivory Trade Crash
26 July 2022The first of Greenland’s Viking settlements were established in the tenth century. But by the fifteenth century, they had all but vanished,...
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America's Serial Killer Family
26 July 2022When the Bender family disappeared from Labette county, Kansas, in 1873, they left a dozen bodies buried in the garden of their home.
But...
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The Biggest Prison Breakout of WW2
25 July 2022During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, thousands of Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. On the icy...
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Benjamin Franklin
25 July 2022As the only person to have signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Treaty of Alliance with France in 1778, Treaty of Paris in 1783, and...
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The Kosovo War
25 July 2022The war in Ukraine has left many of us aghast that open armed conflict could again erupt on the European continent... except the idea of a...
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The Cultural Impact of Colonisation
25 July 2022Ruffs, Pipes and Pearls
When Francis Drake returned home from the Spanish West Indies, he carried with him pearls to present as gifts to...
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Putin, Power and Personality
24 July 2022Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm. He invades his neighbours, most recently...
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Air Conditioning
24 July 2022No summer blockbuster. No Las Vegas and no skyscrapers in Dubai. No chocolate bars when the weather gets hot. Air conditioning is one of those...
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Hannibal vs Rome: Terror at Trasimene
24 July 2022Towards the beginning of the Second Punic War on 21 June 217 BC, a Carthaginian force under Hannibal launched a vicious ambush on a Roman army...
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Going to Church in Medieval England
23 July 2022Parish churches were at the heart of English social life in the Middle Ages. But how did they come into existence? Who staffed them? And how were...
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