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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Creating the United Nations
27 December 2021The search for Peace on Earth has spanned centuries, and involved the creation and dissolution of numerous treaties and organisations. So how does...
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The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 1)
27 December 2021On Christmas Eve 1914 many sectors of the Western Front in France and Belgium fell silent. Troops from all sides put down their weapons and sang...
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Race & Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
26 December 2021For the first 4 centuries AD/CE, the ancient Greek novel was the most popular literary form in the Roman Empire and at the heart of these popular...
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Medieval Christmas
25 December 2021Ever wondered why we call Christmas, ‘Christmas’? And why it’s celebrated on the 25th December? Or maybe where the Christmas tree came from,...
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Storytime with the Snows: Boudica
25 December 2021In a special episode of the podcast, Dan's children join him for a lively retelling of Boudica and the violent uprising that tore Roman Britain...
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HMS Belfast & the Arctic Convoy
24 December 2021Moored on the Thames, HMS Belfast has become a permanent fixture in the landscape of London, but since her initial launch over 80 years ago she...
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Christmas Carols: A Musical History
24 December 2021Traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season, it is thought that carols existed to keep up people’s...
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Tudor Ghosts and Angels
23 December 2021To this day, the presence of angels is synonymous with the Christmas story and the momentous events associated with the Nativity. For the...
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Hannibal's Winter War
23 December 2021It’s fair to say that winter battles weren’t commonplace in the ancient Mediterranean world. There is, however, one striking exception. A...
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The Founding of the SAS
22 December 2021It's a special forces unit known largely for its secrecy, but Damien Lewis is on a mission of his own, to uncover everything about its beginnings....
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King Herod
22 December 2021Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the infamous figures from the whole of...
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Viking Midwinter Solstice
21 December 2021For many of us, our Christmas traditions have been passed down generations. Whether we realise it or not. But where could some of these traditions...
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The Parthenon Marbles
21 December 2021The permanent home of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, has been the subject of a heated, decades-long debate. Currently...
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Witches of Iceland
20 December 2021In Iceland in the 17th century, witchcraft accusations, trials and convictions occurred later than in the rest of Europe. But also unusual...
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Tanks of WWII with James Holland
20 December 2021Anything that James Holland doesn't know about tanks isn't worth knowing. And in this episode, the greats are warring against eachother as he counts...
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God's Changing Body Through History
20 December 2021While many traditions regard God to be incorporeal, some three thousand years ago in the Southwest Asian lands, a group of people worshipped a...
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King Herod
19 December 2021Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the most infamous figures from the whole of...
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The Battle of Agincourt Explained
19 December 2021The Battle of Agincourt looms large in the English historical and cultural imagination, this explainer wades through the mythology to help...
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Medieval Perceptions of Gender
18 December 2021Nonconforming beyond the limitations of what's typically expected of men and women has been happening for many centuries. A part of history and...
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The Ministry of Information: Snoopers, Spies and Censoring in WWII
17 December 2021Despite its Orwellian sounding name - the Ministry of Information was not something from a dystopian novel, but instead a government department that...
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The Unlikely Fate of the Wright Brothers
17 December 2021On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. The Wright Brothers took the...
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