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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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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Tudor Box Set Binge
16 December 2021If you are planning your television viewing over the holidays, especially if you are looking forward to bingeing on the best Tudor dramas and...
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How to Party Like a Roman
16 December 2021Contrary to popular belief, parties in Ancient Rome were not all depraved wine-fuelled orgies. In fact, Roman get-togethers were relatively tame...
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Black Tudors: England's Other Countrymen
16 December 2021Our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. But the black presence in England was much greater than has previously been recognised, and...
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Seducing and Killing Nazis
15 December 2021During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation....
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Uncovered: South America's Biggest Slave Uprising
15 December 2021On February 27 1763, thousands of enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice—in present-day Guyana—launched a huge uprising against their...
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Building Medieval Churches
14 December 2021What is a perpendicular church? In this episode, Cat is on location! Invited by expert stonemason Andrew Ziminski to a spectacular perpendicular...
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Inside Downing Street with Gavin Barwell
14 December 2021British politician Gavin Barwell served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from June 2017 to July 2019, one of the most turbulent...
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Dürer: The Great Renaissance Artist
13 December 2021Albrecht Dürer was the greatest German artist to come out of the Renaissance, whose high quality woodcuts revolutionised the potential of the...
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Sitting Bull: the Life and Death of a Native American Chief
13 December 2021Sitting Bull, best known for his initiative and victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, is a greatly revered Native American Chief. But he was more...
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Hitler's American Gamble
13 December 2021The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 remains etched in public memory as the turning point of WW2. But in fact, it was Hitler’s...
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Songlines: Australia's Book of Genesis
12 December 2021What the Book of Genesis is to the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, songlines are to Indigenous Australians. Epic tales of desire,...
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The Secrets of WW2's Women Soldiers
12 December 2021The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in 1938 it saw many thousands...
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Heralds & Heraldry
11 December 2021Heralds and Heraldry share many aspects of modern sport today, from colourful kits to large gatherings of cheering crowds. But what did it mean to...
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USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor
10 December 2021When the USS Arizona was destroyed on 7 December 1941, it was the United States’ Navy’s single biggest loss of life. Producers Annette Hull...
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Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory
10 December 20212 December is a special date for those fascinated by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only is this the date he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804, but...
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