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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Sex in Ancient Rome
9 September 2021We’ve covered bloody battles, we’ve covered stunning cities, we’ve covered civilisations far away from the ancient Mediterranean. But in some...
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Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
8 September 2021With the release of the nuclear submarine TV series, Vigil, Dr Nick Ritchie, Senior Lecturer at the University of York and the UK’s leading...
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9/11: Evacuating Ground Zero
8 September 2021At 8:46 am on 11 September 2001 the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan. Over the next 9 hours, almost half...
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The Normans
7 September 2021The Norman conquest of England in 1066 was one of the great milestones of English history but there were in fact many Norman invasions and their...
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Viking Ships
7 September 2021The Vikings are remembered fundamentally as seafaring people, and how could they be so if not for their ships? In this episode, Cat speaks to a world...
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Ottoman Traveller: Fynes Moryson
6 September 2021In July 1596, Fynes Moryson - a Lincolnshire gentleman and travel writer - was struck down with grief when his younger brother died as they...
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A New History of the Middle Ages with Dan Jones
6 September 2021Do the 21st Century and the Middle Ages really share that much in common? Climate change, pandemics, technological disruption, interconnected global...
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Before 9/11: A History of Hijacking
6 September 2021As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks two decades on, we discuss the history of plane hijackings. From politically...
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Winston Churchill: From Failures to Finest Hour
5 September 2021Churchill is one of the great figures of history and this totemic figure is often cited as one of the greatest British figures of all time. However,...
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Romans vs Caledonians: The Battle of Mons Graupius
5 September 2021In 83/84 AD a battle was fought somewhere in Scotland between the Roman forces of Gnaeus Julius Agricola and the 'Caledonians' – the great...
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The Unheard Tapes of Bomber Command
4 September 2021Over 55,500 men died flying with Bomber Command during World War Two; more than the number who serve in the Royal Air Force today. Flying at night...
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How To Save Medieval Churches
4 September 2021With Christianity dominating Europe, the Church became one of the most powerful institutions in Britain during the Medieval period and its places of...
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The Start of WWII
3 September 2021On September 1 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland followed two days later by France and the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany and beginning the...
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Before 9/11: The Day Wall Street Exploded
3 September 2021At lunchtime on 16 September 1920, a horse drawn cart exploded on the busiest corner of the Financial District of New York. To find out more about...
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Tudors in Love
2 September 2021The dramas of courtly love have captivated readers and dreamers for centuries. Yet they’re often dismissed as something that existed only in the...
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Digging Medieval Battlefields
2 September 2021How different is battlefield archaeology compared to other disciplines? Do local legends ever help track down evidence in a field? And why are potato...
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Roman Camps in Britain
2 September 2021When one mentions Roman military installations you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of their forts, the remains of which we can see today...
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Are Mandatory Vaccines New?
1 September 2021Vaccines have become a subject of great controversy in recent months but the requirement to have them is far from new. Almost since the earliest...
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The Boy Who Followed His Father to Auschwitz
1 September 2021In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to...
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John Simpson: Six Decades of Warzones
31 August 2021Over six decades John Simpson has been on the frontline of reporting bringing news from some of the most dangerous places on the planet to the...
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Harald Bluetooth
31 August 2021Many of us use Bluetooth technology every day, but know nothing or little of its namesake. And there is little to be known of the King of Denmark...
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