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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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
15 March 2022March 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...
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The KGB in Ukraine
14 March 2022The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union. Tasked with surveillance and rooting out dissidents, religious practitioners and...
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The Real Cyrano de Bergerac
14 March 2022One 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...
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Who Are Boko Haram?
14 March 2022Boko Haram is one of the largest Islamist militant groups in Africa, with Nigeria’s ongoing battle with insurgent groups and government...
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The Rise and Fall of Brutus
13 March 2022Marcus 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...
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My Dad Wrote a History Hit!
13 March 2022In 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...
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Medieval Gaming: Crusader Kings III
12 March 2022How would you rule an early medieval dynasty? Maybe you'll send your spymaster to dig around for secrets or champion honestly to keep stress...
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How the British Prepared for Nuclear War
11 March 2022In this interview from the History Hit archive with Julie McDowall, she talks Dan through exactly how the British government prepared for a worst...
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40:37
The Origins of Kyiv
11 March 202224th of February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This episode of Gone Medieval looks at the origins of its capital...
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Elizabeth Stuart: The Forgotten Queen
10 March 2022As a contribution to International Women's Day last Tuesday, this episode of Not Just the Tudors is a tribute to one of the great - but largely...
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Helen of Troy
10 March 2022Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships - but is there more to her than a beautiful face? To mark Women's History Month, Tristan is...
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28:21
Preventing Nuclear War
10 March 2022While Ukraine fights to defend itself from Russian forces, Putin makes a nuclear threat to the west and the rest of the world. Dr Jeremy Garlick,...
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Wild Swimming with River Expert Angela Jones
10 March 2022Angela Jones, also known as 'The Wild Woman of the Wye', often spends up to six hours in the river. She joins Jimmy on the farm to talk about wild...
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23:09
Crisis in Ukraine: Urban Warfare
9 March 2022Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine has seen warfare return to the streets of Europe for the first time in decades, with Putin's troops launching...
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Brunhild and Fredegund: The Queens Who Fought for 40 Years
8 March 2022We've all heard epic tales of early medieval kings, but what about the queens? It doesn't get much more spectacularly brutal than Brunhild and...
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War, Women and the 1921 Census
8 March 2022After World War One women outnumbered men by the highest margin in recorded history, even compared to after World War Two. This had wide-reaching...
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Elizabeth I's Favourite Painter: Hilliard
7 March 2022Born in Exeter in 1547, the miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard left to posterity some of the most famous and enduring images of Queen Elizabeth I. But...
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WW1: Airpower Over Gallipoli
7 March 2022Located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the elongated embayment of the Aegean Sea to the west and the...
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Escape From a Nazi Concentration Camp
7 March 2022In April 1945, weeks before the Nazi defeat, nine women made a last-ditch escape from the concentration camp at Ravensbruck. The group, who had...
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51:36
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
6 March 2022March 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...
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Yellowstone: The World's First National Park
6 March 2022This year is the 150th anniversary of the world's first national park of its kind, Yellowstone. Each year nearly four million people visit the...
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