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 British Spy who Saved Jews from Hitler
25 November 2021Thomas Kendrick was at the very centre of British Intelligence operations throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He combined a public...
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The Battle of Prokhorovka
24 November 2021The Battle of Prokhorovka was one of the largest tank battles in military history. Taking place on the Eastern Front, it was fought on 12 July 1943...
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From the Punjab to the Western Front
24 November 2021Over a million Indian soldiers served during the First World War, but many of the records of the soldiers who fought valiantly for the Allied...
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Medieval Treasure: What To Do If You Find Some
23 November 2021If you're lucky enough to find some 'treasure', you're legally obliged to report it. A coroner then decides whether it's actually treasure. Yes,...
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The British Monarchy
23 November 2021The British Monarchy is a thread that has run throughout the history of Britain but over the centuries it has been a constantly evolving...
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Henry VIII's Wives on Stage: Six - The Musical
22 November 2021Since its first outing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017, the stage musical Six has become a worldwide theatre sensation. In it, the six...
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The Nazi Hunt for Mona Lisa
22 November 2021During the Second World War, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa left her usual position in the Louvre, Paris. From 1939 to 1945, the portrait was moved...
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The Assassination of JFK: Explained
22 November 2021Everyone who was alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas on the 22 November 1963. On this...
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Caracalla's Macedonian Phalanx
21 November 2021Alexander the Great and Caracalla. One often considered among the most successful military commanders of all time, the other, one of the worst...
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Greg Jenner: Ask a Historian
21 November 2021When and why did we start keeping hamsters as pets? When was sign language first used in the UK? If you were planning a bank heist, which historical...
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Why The Middle Ages Matter with Ian Mortimer
20 November 2021The Medieval periods' impact on the world and how we see it today is often overlooked. From culture, society, and technology, the horizons of England...
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Women on the British Front Line
19 November 2021Whilst battles were fought across the globe, in Britain, the anti aircraft gun sites acted as the British frontline. From 1941, they were also the...
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Searching for the Lost of World War One
19 November 2021At the end of the World War One, around one million citizens of the British Empire had been lost, and the whereabouts of about half of these was...
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Did Thomas Seymour Groom Elizabeth Tudor?
18 November 2021In 1547, the 14-year-old future Queen Elizabeth I is living with her step-mother Queen Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour, uncle to...
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The Legacy of the Minoans
18 November 2021Minoan Crete has kept people captivated for millennia, appearing in countless modern cultural practices till this very day. But who are the Minoans?...
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The Magic Circle & Hoaxes in History
18 November 2021Hoaxes and magic were widespread in 18th century Britain. From a woman who claimed to birth rabbits, to a man who said he’d climb into a bottle in...
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The Nuremberg Trials
17 November 2021On 20 November 1945 the Nuremberg Trials began. In the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, a tribunal set about prosecuting prominent members of Nazi Germany...
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When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain
17 November 2021During World War One, Britain and its empire mobilised soldiers on a hitherto unprecedented scale. That required a huge logistical effort to feed,...
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Sutton Hoo
16 November 2021Centuries ago, an Anglo-Saxon noble was buried within a 90-foot ship in a mound at Sutton Hoo. It serves as the richest burial ever found in northern...
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We Didn't Start the Fire: Dien Bien Phu
16 November 2021This episode of the podcast comes from a show called ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ which is a modern history podcast inspired by the lyrics of...
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Oliver Cromwell
15 November 2021Oliver Cromwell - the only commoner to have become Britain's head of state - has puzzled biographers for centuries. He was a complex...
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