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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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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True Crime on the Elizabethan Stage
9 December 2021The 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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Homosexuality & Ancient Greece
9 December 2021Frederick the Great, Marie Antoinette and Oscar Wilde. Each of them have talked about, or been talked about in terms of, Ancient Greek ideas of...
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Moscow 1941: Hitler's Nemesis with Jonathan Dimbleby
9 December 2021While the allies reeled from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States, a ferocious battle was...
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Life at Bletchley Park
8 December 2021Betty Webb was heavily involved with the work going on at Bletchley Park. While she was not part of the code-breaking team, her work was invaluable...
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Inside North Korea
8 December 2021With closed borders, a totalitarian regime, electricity blackouts and widespread poverty, North Korea is a brutal place to survive; even...
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Queen Cynethryth of Mercia's Lost Abbey
7 December 2021Queen Cynethryth of Mercia was one of the most distinguished rulers of Anglo Saxon Britain. Wife to King Offa, ruler of the Mercians (the most...
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Pearl Harbor: 80th Anniversary
7 December 2021On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise military strike upon the United States against the naval base at...
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