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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Palaces in Paradise: Centres of the Persian World
15 August 2021Persepolis is arguably the most famous ancient site associated with the Achaemenid Persian Empire, but it certainly wasn’t the only...
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The Fall of the Aztec Empire
14 August 2021In August 1521 after a last stand on the steps of their temple buildings, the Aztec defenders of Tenochtitlan surrendered to the Spanish forces of...
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Fertility & Childbirth: The Great Leveller
14 August 2021Giving birth in the middle ages was a dangerous time for women. It had no regard for class, wealth, or status. It could even have been more dangerous...
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Escaping the Berlin Wall
13 August 2021There were many attempts to escape over and under the Berlin Wall but Tunnel 29 was highly unusual for tunnelling into East Berlin rather than out to...
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US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Rory Stewart
13 August 2021The current withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan raises a lot of questions about the conflict. Why are they withdrawing now? Was there a better...
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Alessandro de' Medici, Black Prince of Florence
12 August 2021In the cut-throat world of Renaissance Florence, Alessandro - the illegitimate son of a Duke and a mixed-race servant - attempts to reassert the...
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Gallipoli: What Led to Britain's WW1 Disaster?
12 August 2021What does the price of wheat and global food supplies have to do with one of the greatest disasters in the history of warfare? Why was the decision...
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Pompeii’s Indian Statuette
12 August 2021Among Pompeii’s great wealth of surviving artefacts is one with a rich globe trotting history that only goes to emphasise the interconnected nature...
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England's Great Viking Battle
11 August 2021On 11 August 991 one of the most important anglo-Viking battles took place near Maldon in Essex. This clash was immortalised in one of the finest...
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The Korean War
11 August 2021Sandwiched between the Second World War and the conflict in Vietnam, the Korean War has often been termed 'The Forgotten War' in the United States....
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Royal Mistresses
10 August 2021The role of the royal mistress may, on the face of it, seem a simple position but in reality, there was a lot more to being a royal mistress than it...
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10 Key Roman Emperors
10 August 2021Love them or loathe them, the Roman emperors were some of the most influential figures in history. In this episode Barry Strauss, Professor of...
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The Walls That Made Wales
10 August 2021For thousands of years, the building of walls has played an essential role in shaping the world as we know it; from being used to monitor populations...
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Henry VIII: Defender of the Faith
9 August 2021Five hundred years ago in 1521, the title 'Defender of the Faith' was bestowed by Pope Leo X upon King Henry VIII for his defence of the Catholic...
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The Bombing of Nagasaki
9 August 2021The second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki is less well known than the one a few days earlier on Hiroshima, but was it more influential in...
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The Nuclear Button & US Presidents
9 August 2021It’s a devastating weapon of mass destruction, and in the United States the power to use it belongs to one person: the President. Since the...
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Sisters at War: The Rise and Fall of Elagabalus
8 August 2021Often found high on the list of Rome’s worst emperors, the short reign of the teenager Elegabalus in the early 3rd century AD is filled with...
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The Ultimate Cold War Spy Story
7 August 2021A Soviet double agent at the top of his game, a deadly game of cat and mouse with the KGB and one of the most daring escapes of the Cold War from the...
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The Origins of English
7 August 2021Approximately 1.35 billion people use it, either as a first or second language, so English and the way that we speak it has a daily impact on huge...
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How To Spot a Tithe Barn
7 August 2021Taxes are now an established aspect of our lives, but scattered across Britain’s countryside are reminders of their earliest days, when farmers...
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The Birth of the Internet
6 August 2021In the last 30 years, the internet has utterly changed the world in which we live and is now as vital as electricity in our daily lives. August 6,...
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