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 Winter War: Lessons for Ukraine
4 February 2022Molotov Cocktails, stealth skiing, and a ruined Birthday party for Stalin? What exactly happened in the Winter War of 1939-40 between Russia and...
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ENDURANCE22: Dan Sets Sail for Antarctica!
4 February 2022The expedition has begun and Dan is here to answer your questions about all things Endurance22, the expedition to find Shackleton’s lost...
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Edward VI: The Last Boy King
3 February 2022Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, became King of England at the age of nine. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use him to further their...
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The Phoenician World
3 February 2022Imagine you are a traveller sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress,...
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Russia's Threat to Invade Ukraine
3 February 2022Amid Moscow’s increasing build-up of troops along the Ukrainian border and the preparation of infrastructure for a possible invasion, tensions...
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Building the Eden Project with Sir Tim Smit
3 February 2022Since the Eden Project opened its doors in 2001, more than 19 million people have visited and it’s contributed more than £1.9 billion to the...
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Battle of Britain: What Were the Germans Thinking?
2 February 2022Were the German Luftwaffe the mighty Goliath to Britain's David during the Battle of Britain, or were they in fact more evenly matched? And what on...
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The Troubles: How It Started
2 February 2022With Kenneth Branagh film, Belfast, hitting cinemas - we run down the historical background of the early years of the decades-long conflict in...
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The Vikings from East to West
1 February 2022To mark the US release of our very own Dr Cat Jarman’s incredible book River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk...
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The Forgotten Einstein
1 February 2022John von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived, a man who was in his day as well-known as Einstein and considered...
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Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm
31 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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Antwerp: Renaissance Europe's Dazzling Sea Port
31 January 2022Antwerp during the Renaissance was as sensational as nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. For half the sixteenth century, it...
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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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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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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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