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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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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WW1 & Gallipoli: Britain's Worst Defeat
6 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...
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The Witches of Lorraine
5 August 2021Between 1570 and 1630, there was intense persecution and thousands of executions of suspected witches in Lorraine, a small duchy on the borders of...
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Canada Confronts Its Past
5 August 2021The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former Canadian residential schools have has led to a crisis of identity for the country as it...
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The Lost Baths of Cleopatra
5 August 2021Cleopatra. Hers is one of the most famous names that endures from antiquity. The victor of a civil war. The mistress of Julius Caesar and Marc...
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How WWI Began
4 August 2021On August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany and entered the First World War. This was a conflict of unparalleled savagery with industrialized...
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WW1: The Western Front
4 August 2021The Western Front of the First World War is a story of aristocratic generals sending ordinary men over the top to their deaths in futile frontal...
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Britain's Forgotten Olympic Heroes
3 August 2021The Olympics are a sporting event like no other and in this episode, we celebrate two great British Olympians of the past Anita Neil and Hugh...
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Battle of Brunanburh
3 August 2021When we think of great Medieval battles, many people imagine the Battles of Hastings or Agincourt. Another clash, however, between the kings of...
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The Gladiatrix
3 August 2021Mention the word gladiator and you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of the 2000 namesake epic movie. Of spectators watching on as men battled...
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Beards
2 August 2021For the Tudors and Elizabethans, a beard denoted masculinity while beardlessness indicated boyhood or effeminacy. How a man wore his beard -...
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The Fall and Rise of India's Royal Families
2 August 2021One aspect of India's independence that is often overlooked is the role of India's princely states; the Maharajas. During the Raj, these states...
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RAF Tornadoes & the Gulf War
2 August 2021The First Gulf War was the combat debut for the RAF Tornado, and also for many of the aircrew who would fly one. John Nichol served as a navigator in...
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The Spanish Armada
1 August 2021In 1588 the English Navy defeated one of the greatest fleets ever assembled; the Spanish Armada. A week of running battles in the English Channel...
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