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.
To listen to your podcasts ad-free, sign up to History Hit.
All Podcasts
32:23
Eugenics with Adam Rutherford
16 January 2022Eugenics has been used in attempts throughout history, and across continents, to gain power and assert control.
In this episode, we trace...
Listen Now
47:46
An English Knight's Armour
15 January 2022Knights in their armour is one of the most enduring images of the Middle Ages, perhaps the first thing that comes to mind and a role that many of...
Listen Now
34:00
Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
14 January 2022In 1999, the UK’s first and only war crimes trial for murder perpetrated during the Holocaust took place. The extraordinary court case brought...
Listen Now
40:54
Tudor True Crime
14 January 2022The true-crime genre - stories of actual murders and other crimes that are then fictionalised - is not a new phenomenon. More than four...
Listen Now
41:52
Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots
13 January 2022Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots were cousins who never met - but their fates were intertwined. As their nations were engulfed in religious...
Listen Now
1:03:40
The Seleucid Empire: In the Shadow of Rome
13 January 2022At its height, the Seleucid Empire stretched from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria) to the Indus River Valley. Emerging from the tumultuous...
Listen Now
21:48
George Washington: The First President
13 January 2022George. Where did it all go wrong? George Washington could have had a comfortable career as a loyal member of His Majesty's Virginia militia and...
Listen Now
33:42
When the British Burnt the Capitol with Peter Snow
12 January 2022In 1814, a British expeditionary force landed in Maryland marched on Washington, brushed aside an American army and stormed into the US capital. The...
Listen Now
25:51
The Rule of Laws
12 January 2022The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
Listen Now
30:45
Vikings In the Frankish Kingdom
11 January 2022The Kingdom of the Franks was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe, ruled by the Franks during Late Antiquity and the Early...
Listen Now
26:55
Digging for Britain with Professor Alice Roberts
11 January 20222021 was a bumper year for archaeological discoveries across Britain. In this episode, we go on a whistlestop tour of some of the most notable...
Listen Now
33:21
1492: The Year the Spanish Monarchy Changed the World
10 January 20222022 marks the 530th anniversary of 1492 - the year in which Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille ended centuries of Muslim rule in Spain,...
Listen Now
41:51
Crisis in Ukraine: From the 18th Century to Today
10 January 2022Since late 2013, Ukraine has been in crisis. But the problems there go much further back. To examine the history of the conflict in Ukraine, we...
Listen Now
20:38
Was the League of Nations Doomed to Fail?
10 January 2022102 years ago on the 10th of January 1920, the League of Nations was formed out of the Treaty of Versailles. Its aim was to maintain peace after...
Listen Now
1:07:45
Spinning in the Roman World
9 January 2022Spinning held an important place in ancient society, and no, we're not talking about ancient exercise classes. A task for women and slaves, it was...
Listen Now
25:34
Obama and Merkel: The Extraordinary Partnership
9 January 2022U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are two of the world’s most influential leaders, together at the centre of some...
Listen Now
48:19
Joan of Arc
8 January 2022Joan of Arc is a name that’s instantly recognisable to most. A controversial figure in her own day, she has remained so ever since, often being...
Listen Now
35:58
B17s and Bullet holes: A US Airforce Bomber
7 January 2022Chuck Richardson is a former member of the United States Airforce, serving across Europe in his B17 bomber during World War 2. He, and co-author...
Listen Now
28:58
1921 Census: Revealed
7 January 2022For the first time, the 1921 Census of England & Wales is now publicly available, only online at the family history website, Findmypast. More...
Listen Now
34:19
Franz Hals: Painter of The Laughing Cavalier
6 January 2022One of the most famous paintings in London is The Laughing Cavalier of 1624 by Franz Hals, the great portrait artist of the Dutch Golden Age whose...
Listen Now
49:53
Cannibalism
6 January 2022It’s a macabre topic to discuss, but also one that has fascinated people for generations. So what has archaeology revealed about cannibalism...
Listen Now