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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How To Predict the Future of War
12 July 2021With every new technological breakthrough the battlefield of the future changes, often beyond recognition. Named as one of the United States’...
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The Irish War of Independence
11 July 202111 July 1921 the truce that bought the Irish War of Independence came into effect. The negotiations that brought about the end of hostilities,...
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Julius Caesar’s Invasions of Britain
11 July 2021On the day of the Euro 2020 final, we’re talking England versus Italy…Ancients style (well, sort of). Historian and archaeologist Dr Simon...
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A History of Tennis
10 July 2021In this archive episode, David Berry joined Dan on the pod to discuss the history of tennis. From the birth of modern tennis in Victorian Britain to...
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Battlefield Archaeology
10 July 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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41:05
How Coffee and Tobacco Captivated Britain
9 July 2021When tobacco arrived in Britain in the 1560s, it was hailed as a "holy herb", a miracle cure to improve health and a catalyst for wit and...
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Spitfires: The Kids Who Built Them
9 July 202181 years after the beginning of the Battle of Britain in July 1940, we are looking at the people behind one of the iconic machines which helped the...
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The Death of Anne Boleyn
8 July 2021The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn is a long narrative poem written by the secretary to the French ambassador in London within two weeks of the...
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42:10
England and Italy. The History.
8 July 2021The history of Italy and England stretches back thousands of years well before Italy and England even existed as nations. As the two will meet in the...
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40:33
Begram: Crossroads of the Ancient World
8 July 2021Bagram, also known as Begram, has been in the news a lot recently. Over the past couple of days, the last US and NATO troops have withdrawn from...
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21:51
The Japanese Americans Who Fought in WWII
7 July 2021After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, Japanese Americans were put in a terrible position in the USA. Many tens of thousands of...
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WW2: Spying on Nazis
7 July 2021When captured Nazi generals found themselves in Britain in the Second World War, they were probably surprised to be brought to a beautiful country...
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Assyria and the Birth of Writing
6 July 2021It is often the case that it is assumed that it was in ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean that was host to the foundation of European...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Strait of Messina
6 July 2021Dividing Sicily from Italy, the Strait of Messina is a small stretch of water with an incredible history that stretches back to ancient times. It was...
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22:55
Bunions in the Middle Ages
6 July 2021Fashionable footwear in the Middles Ages was not just uncomfortable, but downright dangerous. It turns out fashionable people paid the price for...
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10 Treasures from the National Trust
5 July 2021Dr Tarnya Cooper is the Curatorial and Collections Director at the National Trust. For her recent book, 125 Treasures from the Collections of the...
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29:55
Ethel Rosenberg: Super Spy or Innocent Victim?
5 July 2021In June 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, an American married couple with two young sons, were executed having been found guilty of conspiracy to...
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WW2: Churchill's Forgotten Field Marshal Alan Brooke
5 July 2021In the shadows of Montgomery, Alexander and Eisenhower, Field Marshal Alan Brooke’s extraordinary contributions as a strategist and leader have...
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D. H. Lawrence and the Lady Chatterley Trial
4 July 2021D.H. Lawrence is best known for his work Lady Chatterley's Lover and the obscenity trial relating to the book's publication in the early 1960s. But...
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Persepolis: Jewel of Persia
4 July 2021It is one of the most remarkable ancient sites in the World. Situated east of the Zagros Mountains in modern day Iran, Persepolis was an important...
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The Truth About King Arthur
3 July 2021The legend of King Arthur has been reworked many times, but is there any historical truth behind the tales? Dr Miles Russell believes there is and in...
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