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 Child Soldiers of WWI
19 January 2022After the outbreak of the First World War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers,...
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34:55
Vikings: What Does Their Hair Tell Us?
18 January 2022If you've watched a film or TV show about vikings recently, you may well have noticed a distinctive hairstyle featuring an undercut and a...
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28 Years on Death Row
18 January 2022Anthony Ray Hinton is an Alabama was held on death row after being wrongly convicted of the murders of two restaurant managers, John Davidson and...
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51:45
Cardinal Wolsey
17 January 2022No advisor was more important to King Henry VIII than Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. He captured Henry's attention with his brilliance and became his...
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36:48
Tony Blair & the Iraq War
17 January 2022In the 2022 New Year Honours list, alongside the names of Joanna Lumley, Moira Stuart and Emma Raducanu, was that of Tony Blair. Over a million...
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Korean War: The Veterans Of Imjin River
17 January 2022Fought between the 22nd-25th of April 1951, the battle of Imjin River was part of a Chinese counter-offensive after United Nations forces had...
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The Birth of the Roman Empire
16 January 202216 January 27 BC is a date sometimes associated with the beginning of the Roman Empire. It was on that day that Octavian received the name...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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