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 Gunpowder Plot
5 November 2021On 5 November 1605, an audacious plan to decapitate the British state was foiled when Guy Fawkes and nearly a ton of gunpowder were discovered in an...
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Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance
4 November 2021The Ottoman Empire has long been seen as the Islamic-Asian opposite of the Christian-European West. But the reality was very different: the...
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Glasgow's Roman Remains & Hadrian's Wall
4 November 2021To align with the COP26 conference in Glasgow, this episode features legendary Roman Britain archaeologist Dr David Breeze talking about his many...
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The Vikings Who Beat Columbus to America
4 November 2021Five centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot in America, the Vikings had already crossed the Atlantic. Using new dating techniques, scientists...
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When We Nearly Nuked the Moon
3 November 2021In this archive episode, Vince Houghton joins Dan Snow to talk about some of the weirdest and craziest ideas put forward during the twentieth...
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WWII's Battle for London
3 November 2021At the start of the Second World War London was one of the largest and most important cities in the world, a centre of industry, finance and the...
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The Origins Of Scotland
2 November 2021The Medieval period saw the advancement of many countries, evolving to the provinces in Europe that we know today; Scotland is no different. In...
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The History of Money
2 November 2021It is said that money makes the world goes round and has done for millennia, but what exactly is money and where does it come from? To find out Dan...
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Singing the News in Tudor England
1 November 2021In an age before newspapers and mass media, how did the general public keep abreast of what was going on? How did they find out about the...
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Mass Psychogenic Illness: Havana Syndrome
1 November 2021‘Brain-fog’, dizziness, ringing in the ears, fatigue: everyday symptoms of attacks by a possibly extraordinary weapon. In 2016, a number of...
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Why We're Wrong About George III
1 November 2021George III ruled through an extraordinary period of revolutionary change, political upheaval, gigantic war and scientific, industrial and...
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The Truth About the Roman Orgy (And More!)
31 October 2021Was Ancient Rome truly as sexually liberated as we think? How did the Greeks feel about nude statues? And how did these ideas vary across the...
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Ghost Stories: The History
30 October 2021Ghosts have inspired, fascinated and frightened us for centuries. The belief in the existence of an afterlife, as well as manifestations of the...
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Did the Papacy Support the Norman Conquest?
30 October 2021In October 1066, William the Conqueror led his army to victory over Harold Godwinson and his Anglo Saxon forces. This was to begin the Norman...
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The Anglo-Arab Wars
29 October 2021The half century between 1870 and 1920 was one of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. In this...
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The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
28 October 2021In his lifetime King Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, forged one of the largest empires in ancient history. But it was...
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
28 October 2021In the Vatican Library, there survive 17 highly personal love letters, written in King Henry VIII's own hand to Anne Boleyn between 1527 and...
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The End of the Severan Dynasty
28 October 2021Following two assassinations and two executions, the title of Roman Emperor fell to Alexander Severus. He was one of the youngest to ever hold this...
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The Truth About Hollywood Cowboys
27 October 2021At the end of the American Civil War, thousands of African Americans ventured west to the frontier in a bid to achieve freedom and escape the...
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Castro, Malcolm X & Khrushchev in Harlem
27 October 2021For five decades the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro ran a communist state on the doorstep of the United States. But in September 1960, he...
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Tank Standoff at Checkpoint Charlie
26 October 2021For 16 hours between the 27 to 28 October 1961, the world held its breath as Soviet and US tanks faced each other down at Checkpoint Charlie in...
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