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 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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Eels in the Middle Ages: Meals & Money
26 October 2021The European eel is now categorised as a critically endangered species, but 1000 years ago they flourished in abundance, and were an important aspect...
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Richard III vs Henry VII
25 October 2021We all think we know the story of Richard III and Henry VII, or do we? Richard III is often portrayed as a child-murdering usurper whose reign was...
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Witches & Puritans
25 October 2021On a remote Massachusetts plantation in 1651, an unpopular local brickmaker was blamed for a wave of animal ailments, children dying and vanishing...
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WW2: Special Boat Service
25 October 2021Many have heard of the SAS (Special Air Service), but what about the SBS? Britain's SBS (Special Boat Service) was the first operations unit of its...
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Sharpe is Back! Bernard Cornwell
24 October 2021Watch out loyal servants of Napoleon, Sharpe is back! In this episode, Dan sits down with legendary author Bernard Cornwell to discuss the return of...
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Mavia: Arabia's Warrior Queen
24 October 2021To fight against the Roman empire and then make an alliance with them took a certain courage and tenacity. In this episode we are introduced to...
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Tuskegee Airmen: A WW2 Pilot's Story
23 October 2021The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in American military history. They faced discrimination and segregation at...
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Medieval Treasures at the National Archives
23 October 2021The National Archives can be seen as any medieval historian's candy store. It's filled with an amazing variety of materials, from the Magna Carta to...
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Drone War in Vietnam
22 October 2021Drones are often considered among the most modern elements of warfare, and their use doesn't regularly feature in stories of the Vietnam War. But as...
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Britain's Overlooked Hero: From the Trenches to the Blitz
21 October 2021Serving on the front lines of the First World War, the homefront of the Second World War and as a community leader throughout his life, George...
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Massacre of the Huguenots
21 October 2021The royal wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre on 18 August 1572, was designed to reconcile France’s Catholics and Protestants -...
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Ancient Kazakhstan: Gold of the Great Steppe
21 October 2021Gold and horses! 2,500 years ago, in the area of the Great Steppe that is now Eastern Kazakhstan, an extraordinary ancient Scythian culture...
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The Battle of Trafalgar
20 October 2021On 21 October 1805, A British fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson met the combined might of the French and Spanish fleets off the coast of...
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How States Become Sea Powers
20 October 2021Andrew Lambert has written a magisterial history of sea power states, and the tools and methods of control they used to exert influence. From the...
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How Brutish Were Our Ancestors?
19 October 2021Was life for our ancient ancestors brutish and short or did they exist as noble savages free and living in harmony with nature and each other? Many...
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Vikings & Mice in the Azores
19 October 2021The Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal in the middle of the Atlantic, was said to be discovered in 1427 by Portuguese explorer Diogo de Silves....
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