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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Did Immigration Really Cause the Fall of Rome?
10 November 2021Boris Johnson recently stated that the fall of Rome was caused by 'uncontrolled migration' and the image of a mighty empire bought to its knees by...
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Vikings in North America
9 November 2021Five centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot in America, the Vikings had already crossed the Atlantic. Using new dating techniques, scientists...
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The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 November 2021The Berlin Wall was an icon of the Cold War and a physical embodiment of the divide between East and West. Its rise and fall was a microcosm of...
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England: Devil-Land 1588-1688
8 November 2021In the 17th century, England was known as "Devil-Land" - a diabolical country torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal...
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Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
8 November 2021Even after his overthrow and bloody death in 2011, Colonel Gaddafi still looms large over Libya but there is much more to the history of this...
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The First Astronomers
7 November 2021For thousands of years indigenous Australians, the longest living culture on Earth, have been fascinated by the stars. In this episode, Gamilaraay...
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Bar Kokhba: Hadrian's Worst Nightmare
7 November 2021In AD132 began the bloody struggle over who would rule a nation. The clash of two ancient cultures was fought between two strong-willed leaders,...
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Hundred Years' War
6 November 2021Over 100 years of conflict, two warring nations, five monarchs on either side and countless casualties in a dispute over claims to the throne: in...
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The Gunpowder Plot
5 November 2021On 5 November 1605, an audacious plan to decapitate the British state was foiled when Guy Fawkes and nearly a ton of gunpowder were discovered in an...
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Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance
4 November 2021The Ottoman Empire has long been seen as the Islamic-Asian opposite of the Christian-European West. But the reality was very different: the...
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Glasgow's Roman Remains & Hadrian's Wall
4 November 2021To align with the COP26 conference in Glasgow, this episode features legendary Roman Britain archaeologist Dr David Breeze talking about his many...
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The Vikings Who Beat Columbus to America
4 November 2021Five centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot in America, the Vikings had already crossed the Atlantic. Using new dating techniques, scientists...
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34:58
WWII's Battle for London
3 November 2021At the start of the Second World War London was one of the largest and most important cities in the world, a centre of industry, finance and the...
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The Origins Of Scotland
2 November 2021The Medieval period saw the advancement of many countries, evolving to the provinces in Europe that we know today; Scotland is no different. In...
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The History of Money
2 November 2021It is said that money makes the world goes round and has done for millennia, but what exactly is money and where does it come from? To find out Dan...
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Singing the News in Tudor England
1 November 2021In an age before newspapers and mass media, how did the general public keep abreast of what was going on? How did they find out about the...
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Why We're Wrong About George III
1 November 2021George III ruled through an extraordinary period of revolutionary change, political upheaval, gigantic war and scientific, industrial and...
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The Truth About the Roman Orgy (And More!)
31 October 2021Was Ancient Rome truly as sexually liberated as we think? How did the Greeks feel about nude statues? And how did these ideas vary across the...
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Ghost Stories: The History
30 October 2021Ghosts have inspired, fascinated and frightened us for centuries. The belief in the existence of an afterlife, as well as manifestations of the...
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Did the Papacy Support the Norman Conquest?
30 October 2021In October 1066, William the Conqueror led his army to victory over Harold Godwinson and his Anglo Saxon forces. This was to begin the Norman...
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The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
28 October 2021In his lifetime King Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, forged one of the largest empires in ancient history. But it was...
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