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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Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On
31 January 2022Half a century ago on January 30 1972, British soldiers shot dead 14 unarmed protesters during a civil rights march in the Bogside area of Derry,...
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The Execution of Charles I
31 January 2022On the 30th January, 372 years ago, Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland, stepped out of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to be beheaded...
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Alexander's Successors at War: The Spartan Adventurer
30 January 2022It’s here! Today is the publication date of Tristan’s first book, Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years. Focussing in on...
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38:54
After Nuremberg
30 January 2022The 1950s in West Germany saw a sharp decline in Nazi war crimes investigations and trials. Instead, there were campaigns for amnesties and...
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Medicine in the Middle Ages
29 January 2022The Middle Ages were a period of exploration in medicine, but it didn't come without risk. The lack of understanding when it came to sanitation...
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The Other Schindlers
28 January 2022This week, in honour of Holocaust memorial day, James is joined once again by Agnes Grunwald-Spier to discuss her experiences in the Holocaust and...
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Nuremberg: The Trial of Major War Criminals
28 January 2022Carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949, the Nuremberg trials were held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to...
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Death of Henry VIII
27 January 2022475 years ago, on 28 January 1547, King Henry VIII died at the age of 55. Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been...
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44:54
The Scholars of Assyria
27 January 2022Tens of thousands of clay tablets containing texts written in the ancient Cuneiform script of the Assyrian Empire have been discovered, giving us...
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31:30
Green Fashion with Eshita Kabra-Davies
27 January 2022Did you know that the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined? Or that most of the clothes we...
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The Boy Who Survived Auschwitz
27 January 2022Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp...
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Cooking with Jamie Oliver
27 January 2022Jimmy’s childhood friend, Jamie Oliver, is the first guest on the farm. Hear a new side to Jamie as they discuss his rise to fame and the...
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44:06
The SAS in the Falklands: Part Two
26 January 2022In this archive episode, Dan Snow concludes his fascinating talk with Sir Cedric Delves and Danny West about the involvement of the SAS in the...
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Munich - The Edge of War: Reappraising Chamberlain
26 January 2022Join James from the Warfare Podcast, as he chats to the writer and cast of the new film 'Munich - the Edge of War'. Set in 1938, the movie follows...
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Medieval Warhorses
25 January 2022While Braveheart isn't known for its historical accuracy - there is one surprising fact it gets dramatically wrong. In the medieval period, the...
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22:59
The Gilded Age
25 January 2022The Gilded Age was a time in American history when the economy grew at its fastest rate in history. This had wide-reaching cultural and social...
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Welcome to Jimmy's Farm
24 January 2022Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to...
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43:05
Henry VIII & Jousting
24 January 2022In the world of King Henry VIII, the paramount place to demonstrate physical strength and manly courage was the joust - and Henry excelled at...
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33:48
How Australia Survived WW2
24 January 2022Jim Burrows OAM, 98, served as a Coastwatcher in the South Pacific during World War Two. The Coastwatchers were an intelligence arm of the Allied...
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Champagne Riots
24 January 2022Rebecca Gibb is a Master of Wine. A ninja who can sniff out a Merlot from a Margaux at 50 paces. In this archive episode, she talks to Dan about...
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Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part Two)
23 January 2022In this second part of Tristan’s explainer, he takes us right into the heart of the battle dubbed the Persian Thermopylae. Listen as Alexander...
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