History Hit Podcasts

Young Caesar vs Marc Antony

What happened after the Ides of March? How did the Romans go from co-ordinated assassinations to the Pax Romana? From Tyranny to prosperity? In...

Prison Camps in WW2 Britain

From the summer of 1940, approximately 30,000 so-called ‘enemy aliens’ were indefinitely sent to internment camps across...

Lost Towns of Britain

It's hard to imagine the familiar places around you disappearing forever. But all across Britain, there are once inhabited towns and...

200 Years of British-Russian Relations

Russia and the UK have very different political structures and ambitions, from their alliance at the Battle of Navarino in 1827 to the historic...

ENDURANCE22: Questions & Reflections

To mark the end of a truly epic journey, Dan wanted to hear from you -the listeners- those that have dedicatedly followed the story of...

Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt

No one represented the complexities of the court of Henry VIII better than Sir Thomas Wyatt, a skilled diplomat who was forced to live with the...

Saint Patrick

Man, myth or legend... who was the real Saint Patrick? Did he really banish all the snakes from Ireland? Where does the shamrock tradition come...

What Is an Oligarch?

The use of the word ‘Oligarch’ has been increasingly rampant across international news outlets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine just weeks...

Beekeeping with Bez from the Happy Mondays

Bez from the Happy Mondays: dancer, rockstar and...beekeeper?!

Bez, who has kept bees for more than seven years, shares some hilarious...

The Steam Engine and Simultaneous Invention

The revolution in speed ground to a halt in the 1960s. The previous half-century saw great leaps in how quickly people could get from place to...

Putin's Rise to Power

In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we wanted to take a closer look at Russian President, Vladimir Putin's rise to power. We've dug...

Steam Engines and Transport Innovators

The revolution in speed ground to a halt in the 1960s. The previous half-century saw great leaps in how quickly people could get from place to...

Genetic Engineering

Over the course of only half a century, genetic engineering has developed from an intellectual concept to a medical reality. Yet the ethical and...

Recreating the Viking World in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has brought the Viking Age to life in stunning detail, and now the game is even being used as an educational...

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained

March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator...

The KGB in Ukraine

The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union. Tasked with surveillance and rooting out dissidents, religious practitioners and...

The Real Cyrano de Bergerac

One of the world's much loved stage and screen characters has just returned to the cinema in a new film version starring Peter Dinklage. But...

Who Are Boko Haram?

Boko Haram is one of the largest Islamist militant groups in Africa, with Nigeria’s ongoing battle with insurgent groups and government...

The Rise and Fall of Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus is best known as one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, but there's so much more to his complex story. In today's...

My Dad Wrote a History Hit!

In this special episode Dan Snow teams up with Alice Levine, Jamie Morton and James Cooper from My Dad Wrote A Porno to chat about all things sex...

Medieval Gaming: Crusader Kings III

How would you rule an early medieval dynasty? Maybe you'll send your spymaster to dig around for secrets or champion honestly to keep stress...