History Hit Podcasts

Crisis in Ukraine: Urban Warfare

Russia'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...

Brunhild and Fredegund: The Queens Who Fought for 40 Years

We'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...

War, Women and the 1921 Census

After World War One women outnumbered men by the highest margin in recorded history, even compared to after World War Two. This had wide-reaching...

Elizabeth I's Favourite Painter: Hilliard

Born in Exeter in 1547, the miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard left to posterity some of the most famous and enduring images of Queen Elizabeth I. But...

WW1: Airpower Over Gallipoli

Located 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...

Escape From a Nazi Concentration Camp

In April 1945, weeks before the Nazi defeat, nine women made a last-ditch escape from the concentration camp at Ravensbruck. The group, who had...

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...

Yellowstone: The World's First National Park

This year is the 150th anniversary of the world's first national park of its kind, Yellowstone. Each year nearly four million people visit the...

The Origins of Kyiv

24th of February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This episode of Gone Medieval looks at the origins of its capital...

Fighting For Another Country

In February 2022, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss voiced her support for those individuals who wanted to travel to Ukraine to help, what she...

Edward VI: The Last Boy King

Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use him to further their own ends....

How the Tudors Told Time

How time passes - or how it is understood to pass - itself has a fascinating history. For the Tudors, the uneven hours of the Medieval reckoning...

The Origins of Ukraine

It's not often we cover current affairs on The Ancients (the clue is in the name), but in light of Putin’s claims that Ukraine was “entirely...

Wellbeing in Nature with Jake Humphrey

Podcaster, presenter and bestselling author, Jake Humphrey, is On Jimmy’s Farm today.

Jake talks to Jimmy about how the natural world has...

The Guinea Pig Club: Plastic Surgery & WW2

Of all the clubs in the world, perhaps the most extraordinary is the Guinea Pig Club, a group of Second World War veterans that suffered terrible...

ENDURANCE22: Onto the Ice

On today's episode, Dan takes the podcast out onto the Antarctic ice to find penguins, seals and the expedition scientists conducting experiments....

Discovering Bury St Edmunds

The historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk may well be familiar to listeners to Gone Medieval - perhaps from our episode 'Saint...

The Real Peaky Blinders

Who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Carl Chinn reveals the true story of the notorious gangs that roamed Birmingham's streets...

Welcome to Patented: History of Inventions

Stories of invention and innovation through history hosted by Dallas Campbell.

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Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome

All this month on the History Hit family of podcasts, we've been marking LGBT+ History Month. To round off the month, Professor Suzannah...

Fighting With Pride: Lifting the Armed Forces' Gay Ban

By law, gay men and women were banned from serving in the British military until the year 2000. Until that year, over 250 service personnel were...