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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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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34:41
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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49:48
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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27:28
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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18:37
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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34:40
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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31:18
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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36:13
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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46:46
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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26:03
Our Love Affair with History
15 November 2021From the great battles such as Dunkirk, historical titans such Alexander the Great and historical oddities such as Henry VIII's enemas Dan speaks to...
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21:41
Raj Bisram's Military Career
14 November 2021You might know Raj Bisram best as a TV antiques expert, but he actually started his career by joining the military in the 70s. From becoming an...
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The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
14 November 2021From Gladiator to Rome Total War to I, Claudius, today the Cohortēs praetōriae are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome....
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32:52
Stories of War with Max Hastings
14 November 2021As the country remembers the sacrifice made by those men and women who have given their lives and health in serving the nation Dan is joined by...
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36:17
Metal Detecting Medieval Treasure
13 November 2021When Buffy and husband Ian Bailey went out with their metal detectors in Yorkshire, they thought they'd stumbled across a sheep's ear tag when they...
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33:16
Searching for the Lost of World War One
12 November 2021At the end of the First World War, around one million citizens of the British Empire had been lost, and the whereabouts of about half of these was...
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59:14
How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen
12 November 2021The Spanish infanta Catalina of Aragon was raised to be a Queen, betrothed at the age of three to the heir apparent of the English throne, Arthur...
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56:22
The Last Witches in England
11 November 2021In 1682, three impoverished women from Bideford in Devon were hanged, becoming the last people to be executed for witchcraft in England. The...
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30:52
Ancient Globalisation? Life and Death at Ai Khanum
11 November 2021For decades the discovery of Ai Khanum, ‘the City of Lady Moon’, in Eastern Afghanistan has fascinated archaeologists and historians alike:...
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