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 Origins of Kyiv
5 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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Fighting For Another Country
4 March 2022In February 2022, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss voiced her support for those individuals who wanted to travel to Ukraine to help, what she...
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Edward VI: The Last Boy King
4 March 2022Edward 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....
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How the Tudors Told Time
3 March 2022How time passes - or how it is understood to pass - itself has a fascinating history. For the Tudors, the uneven hours of the Medieval reckoning...
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The Origins of Ukraine
3 March 2022It'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...
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Wellbeing in Nature with Jake Humphrey
3 March 2022Podcaster, presenter and bestselling author, Jake Humphrey, is On Jimmy’s Farm today.
Jake talks to Jimmy about how the natural world has...
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The Guinea Pig Club: Plastic Surgery & WW2
2 March 2022Of 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...
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ENDURANCE22: Onto the Ice
2 March 2022On today's episode, Dan takes the podcast out onto the Antarctic ice to find penguins, seals and the expedition scientists conducting experiments....
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Discovering Bury St Edmunds
1 March 2022The historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk may well be familiar to listeners to Gone Medieval - perhaps from our episode 'Saint...
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The Real Peaky Blinders
1 March 2022Who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Carl Chinn reveals the true story of the notorious gangs that roamed Birmingham's streets...
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Welcome to Patented: History of Inventions
28 February 2022Stories of invention and innovation through history hosted by Dallas Campbell.
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Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome
28 February 2022All this month on the History Hit family of podcasts, we've been marking LGBT+ History Month. To round off the month, Professor Suzannah...
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Fighting With Pride: Lifting the Armed Forces' Gay Ban
28 February 2022By 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...
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How the Mongols Changed the World
28 February 2022After the death of Chinggis Khan, the founder and first Emperor of the Mongol Empire, the land became the largest contiguous empire in...
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Sappho: The Poet from Lesbos
27 February 2022Famous throughout antiquity, yet retold only in fragments today - who is Sappho? Her poetry inspired generations, from Catullus to Byron, so...
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An Audacious Heist at the National Gallery
27 February 2022Please note that this episode contains spoilers from the film ‘The Duke’.
Kempton Bunton was a taxi driver who stole Goya’s portrait...
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1066: What Became Of The Anglo-Saxon Children?
26 February 20221066 is a year carved into the history of western Europe. It radically transformed the cultural, political and built landscape of England in a way...
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Crisis in Ukraine: Putin & NATO
25 February 2022Ukraine has been invaded by Russia. But why? What is NATO’s purpose, and why does it bother Vladimir Putin so much? In this episode of Warfare,...
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Crisis in Ukraine: Putin & NATO
25 February 2022Ukraine has been invaded by Russia. But why? What is NATO’s purpose, and why does it bother Vladimir Putin so much? In this episode of Warfare,...
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Ukraine and Russia: A Quick History
24 February 2022Russia has launched an invasion of Ukraine. As European leaders gather and Ukraine makes preparations to defend itself, the world watches. In...
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Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters
24 February 2022How can women be reinstated into the narrative of history when their presence is only faintly attested to in the remaining sources? How can...
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