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 the Middle Ages
15 June 2021Despite being a key part of society and everyday life, medieval sexuality was probably left out of your history lessons at school. But how much do...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
14 June 2021Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to the news headlines when the rosary she carried to her execution in 1587, was recently stolen from Arundel...
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The Heiress, the Kidnap, and the Making of London
14 June 2021After the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666 London was on its knees with its population decimated and the heart of the city...
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The Nazis & Rommel in the Middle East
14 June 2021Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’, known as such because from 1940 until the end of 1942, he led his troops across the deserts of North Africa and...
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Gordon Brown on How To Save the World
13 June 2021Gordon Brown stood at the pinnacle of UK politics for 13 years first as Chancellor of the Exchequer and the as Prime Minister but it is as a private...
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Berenike and the Red Sea Spice Route
13 June 2021Situated on the western coast of the Red Sea in antiquity were a series of thriving seaports, bringing in trade from as far as way as Sir Lanka....
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The Euros
12 June 2021England holds the slightly unwanted title for the most appearances in the Euros without ever reaching a final, so why the excitement when it comes...
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Medieval Africa
12 June 2021It’s no secret that Africa’s early history is documented quite differently from its European counterparts, relying instead on elements such as...
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Alexander the Great’s Corpse and the Greatest Heist in History
11 June 2021Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals and empire builders in history, but the story of his death is almost as remarkable as his...
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WW2: Death Marches
11 June 2021As the Allies advanced through Europe in early 1945, the Nazis embarked on one final escalation of the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners,...
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Japan's Edo Period
10 June 2021After a century of Civil War, changes in the way Japan was ruled from 1600 onwards meant that Europeans and Christianity made few inroads into...
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The Mary Rose and Her Ethnically Diverse Crew
10 June 2021The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship in Henry VIII's navy, sank in the Solent on 19 July 1545 with the loss of most of her 415 strong crew. Recent...
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Nero: Taking to the Stage
10 June 2021In popular culture, Nero is thought of as the Emperor who played the fiddle as Rome burned to the ground. Whilst this might not be strictly factual,...
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The Crusades with Dan Jones
9 June 2021The two Dans are back. And this time, they're talking all things crusades. In this rerun episode, Dan Jones provides his namesake host with a...
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How to Be a Spy
9 June 2021Charlie Higson and Ben McIntyre talk about the facts and fictions of working in espionage. Having both encountered the recruitment process for the...
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Stalin's War
8 June 2021The Second World War is often depicted as a straight battle between good and evil but it was perhaps less straightforward than that. Whilst the Nazi...
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Viking Raid on Lindisfarne
8 June 20211228 years ago, on June 8 793, Vikings attacked a monastic settlement on the island of Lindisfarne. This raid had such an impact across Europe that...
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The French Historie: A Gory Poem
7 June 2021In 1589, Anne Dowriche, the wife of a Puritan minister from Devon, wrote a long and gory poem about the bloody, ongoing conflict between Catholics...
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The History of Head Transplants
7 June 2021The superpower rivalry of the Cold War had many different fronts, space, the rice paddy fields of south-east Asia and even the operating theatre. The...
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After D-Day: The Fight Out Of Normandy
7 June 2021Few days hold such a strong position in history as D-Day. However, as David O'Keefe tells us in this episode, 6 June 1944 was followed by 76 days of...
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New D-Day Shipwrecks Discovered
6 June 2021D-Day on 6 June 1944 saw the largest amphibious landing in history take place as more than 150,000 allied troops stormed five assault beaches in...
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