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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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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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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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 Over the past couple of days, the last US and NATO troops have withdrawn from...
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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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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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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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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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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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Northampton: The Heart of Medieval England?
3 July 2021When we think of the heart of England, we often think of the city of London. But in Medieval times, Northampton held this title and it solidified...
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The Battle of the Somme
2 July 2021105 years ago the battle of the Somme raged on into its second day. 60,000 British casualties we recorded on its first day and by its close in...
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Battle of Gettysburg
2 July 2021158 years ago, the Unionist and Confederate armies were on their second day of fighting at the town of Gettysburg. The battle was arguably the...
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Coffee & Tobacco
1 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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100 years of the Chinese Communist Party
1 July 2021100 years ago the Chinese Communist Party was founded and across the span of that century has become one of the most powerful organisations on the...
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Divorced, Murdered, Survived: Nero's Wives
30 June 2021In the long tradition of categorising famous wives as the good or the bad, Nero’s partners are no exception. These women are regularly reduced...
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