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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Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard
20 September 2021The title of Caesar has echoed down the ages as the pinnacle of absolute power and perhaps even tyranny. A single man at the head of a nation or...
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WW2: Women & Work
20 September 2021From munitions factories and the cabinet war rooms, to flying aircraft and even shaking hands with Joseph Stalin; during the Second World War...
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The Harlem Hellfighters of World War One
19 September 2021During World War One the 369th Infantry Regiment of the US Army gained a fearsome reputation. One of the most effective fighting units they spent...
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Clodius: Best Villain of the Roman Republic?
19 September 2021Historian and author Dr. Emma Southon returns to the Ancients to shine a light on the life - and murder - of Publius Claudius Pulcher (aka...
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The Frontiers of Science & History with A.C. Grayling
18 September 2021A. C. Grayling is one of the foremost minds of his generation and his new book explores some of the biggest questions that face humanity. What do we...
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Witchcraft & the Nobility
18 September 2021Witchcraft has a plethora of negative connotations attached to it. Being accused and found guilty of this in the Middle Ages could be fatal, but...
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Henry VIII's Break with Rome
17 September 2021King Henry VIII was deeply religious and started out as a staunch supporter of the Pope and the Roman Catholic church. But everything changed when...
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Band of Brothers & Masters of the Air
17 September 2021Twenty years after the release of the landmark series Band of Brothers, screenwriter John Orloff is back to bring us Masters of the Air with Steven...
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Clothing Tudor Queens
16 September 2021How did Tudor Queens clothe themselves? How did female fashion change over Henry VIII's reign? Did foreign Queens influence English fashion or...
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Hunting Stolen Nazi Art
16 September 2021As the Nazi war machine rampaged across Europe it did not just take territory and resources from its conquests but also many thousands of pieces...
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Maya Warfare and Sacrifice
16 September 2021With a history stretching back thousands of years, it’s about time that the Ancients started looking at the extraordinary Maya civilisation in...
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The Battle of Britain
15 September 202115 September marks Battle of Britain Day when the Luftwaffe sought a final decisive final battle over the skies of Britain with the RAF. In a day of...
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Battle of Britain: Truth vs Myth
15 September 2021In June 1940 Nazi Germany overran France and forced the British army to evacuate at Dunkirk. Severely lacking in military equipment, Britain and its...
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The Last Hanging in Cardiff Prison
14 September 2021In September 1952 Mahmood Hussein Mattan became the last to be hanged at Cardiff Prison, but Mahmood had in fact been framed by the police and 45...
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Could Medieval Women Be Military Leaders?
14 September 2021It's often assumed that women played a passive role in Medieval society. But did women hold more power than we know? When a richly furnished grave at...
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Islam and the Elizabethans
13 September 2021Elizabeth I's excommunication by the Pope in 1570 marked the beginning of an extraordinary - and little talked about - English alignment with...
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Viking Legend: Ragnar Lothbrok
13 September 2021Ragnor Lothbrook is a legendary Viking figure who straddled the line between myth and reality. His adventures and deeds appear in the Viking sagas,...
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American Resistance Leader in Nazi Berlin
13 September 2021Her American nationality could have offered her protection from the Nazi Regime. Instead, she used it to benefit the resistance movement. Mildred...
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9/11: The Legacy
12 September 2021The tragic events of 9/11 left thousands dead and injured and the impact of that loss is still being felt twenty years later by the families. It...
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The Origins of Civilisation
12 September 2021The world is constantly changing, and so has the perception of civilisation, but what exactly are the origins of this concept? Helping us...
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9/11: The Fire Commissioner at Ground Zero
11 September 2021On the morning of September 11th, 2001 terrorists flew planes into both the World Trade Centre towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington...
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