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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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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1:00:22
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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53:04
Bras
12 July 2022Bras are an everyday item for around half of the adult population, and for as long as humans have developed breasts they have been faced with the...
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42:27
The Origins of Thor
12 July 2022Few early medieval gods are as well-known and as popular as Thor. He’s currently thrilling moviegoers worldwide with his new outing for the...
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29:24
The Black Medal of Honour
11 July 2022In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during WWII, they recommended...
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17:22
Jack the Ripper
11 July 2022Who is Jack the Ripper ? More than 130 years after the horrendous crimes that terrified the Whitechapel borough in London, the identity of the...
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52:56
Isaac Newton
11 July 2022One of the greatest mathematicians and most influential physicists of all time, Isaac Newton was born into a world of turmoil that shaped him and...
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27:10
NATO Expansion: Is Bigger Better?
11 July 2022NATO is expanding and enlarging. With the number of rapid response troops set to increase to 300,000, and Sweden & Finland in line to gain...
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38:47
The Shortest History of Democracy
10 July 2022In a time of grave uncertainty about the future of our planet, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever.
From its...
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34:31
Rise of Rome: The Fall of the Samnites
10 July 2022In the final part of our Samnite Wars episodes, Tristan is once again joined by Dr Kathryn Lomas from Durham University to find out more about...
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