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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Baby Formula
20 July 2022The United States has been suffering from a baby formula shortage for months now. It’s shown how reliant we are on this one commodity. People...
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Hatshepsut: The Temple of Egypt's Female Pharaoh
19 July 2022On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt sits a temple considered to be one of the great architectural wonders of ancient Egypt. The memorial...
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30:13
How Trees Gave Places Their Names
19 July 2022Trees have been universally important to humanity throughout history - not only as the source of fruits and nuts, but also wood for tools, weapons...
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54:14
Abortion in the US
19 July 2022In this episode we are looking into the first time abortion was made illegal in the US. This is the first of a special two-part series looking at...
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26:13
Formidable Heroines of History
18 July 2022From the notorious thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these heroines...
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17:18
Marquis de Sade
18 July 2022Writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade is a very controversial figure because of its texts, where erotism and pornography had an important...
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40:54
The Real Bin Laden
18 July 202218 minutes. That's how much extra time the US Navy Seals had during their raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In that time...
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40:48
Anne of Cleves
18 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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17:38
My Life as a Child Prisoner of War
17 July 2022The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began on December 25, 1941, after the then Governor, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown...
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51:56
Sumerians and the Birth of Writing
17 July 2022Despite being one of the first civilisations in human history, Sumer is not as well-known as other Bronze Age societies such as Babylonia and, of...
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35:00
Measurements
17 July 2022A pint might be Britain’s most beloved measurement. But what’s the name for the distance a reindeer can walk before it needs to pee?
The...
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37:15
England & France: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms
16 July 2022The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time when the close friendship or petty feuding between monarchs could determine the course of...
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55:13
Women of the Wild West
15 July 2022From a rifle-carrying brothel madam to missionaries walking for months on end; from the Native American First Ladies of settler outposts to the...
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56:59
The Korean War: HMS Belfast with Veteran Ron Yardley
15 July 2022Moored in the River Thames, the HMS Belfast is an important part of the Imperial War Museums and a brilliant learning resource for those who...
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45:04
Beer
14 July 2022Pint, bottle, schooner, tinny … no matter how you drink it, beer is undeniably a part of social life here in Britain and around the...
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45:07
The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe
14 July 2022In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Alan Downie about Daniel Dafoe, whose life was at least as...
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The Rise of Cleopatra
14 July 2022Famed across the ages and around the world - everyone knows the name Cleopatra. But how did she become one of the most infamous women in...
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28:21
Wars in the Atlantic World
13 July 2022How has warfare shaped the way humans live in the Atlantic World? Well, a lot. Military campaigns from the late Middle Ages to the Age of...
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40:58
Waterloo Uncovered: Bones from the Battlefield
13 July 2022Join James for this special episode as we take an exclusive look at an astonishing discovery made at the Waterloo battlefield in...
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32:30
Sign Language
13 July 2022Imagine knowing no language at all…
*wordlessness*
…and then giving birth to one.
This is what happened amongst the children...
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26:08
The 'Dark Ages' with Michael Wood
12 July 2022Lasting 900 years, the ‘Dark Ages’ were between the 5th and 14th centuries, falling between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance....
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