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 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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Iron Age British and Roman Racing Chariots
6 June 2021How truthful are modern depictions of ancient chariots? In this second episode, Mike Loades explores the reality behind the scythed chariot shown in...
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The Profumo Affair
5 June 2021It was the scandal that shook the British political world to its core leading to ministerial resignations and helping to bring down a prime...
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Unravelling Medieval Buildings
5 June 2021From spiral stairs, to tunnels leading to pubs and brothels, to witch markings; join us as we find out the truth about medieval buildings. Matt is...
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The Beauty and Violence of the Renaissance
4 June 2021The Renaissance was a time of radical change in Europe with an explosion in the production of art, new methods of waging war, Europeans...
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D-Day from the Air
4 June 2021It’s 77 years since D-Day but it might never have happened at all without one very specific piece of new technology; the resonant cavity...
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41:55
A 16th Century Public Executioner
3 June 2021The German executioner Meister Frantz Schmidt kept a fascinating journal of all the executions, torture and punishments he administered between 1573...
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Disaster Before D-Day: Exercise Tiger
3 June 2021The D-Day landings of June 6 1944 were the largest amphibious landing in the history of warfare, and are famed as a major turning point towards...
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Polynesian Mythology
3 June 2021From creation stories to voyager journeys, mythology and oral history are often key to our identities. In this episode Christina Thompson shines a...
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The Bank That Sacked Its Customers
2 June 2021When we think of investment banking we think of high-risk trades, profit at any cost and big bonuses but there is an institution that sees it...
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Disaster Before D-Day: Exercise Tiger
2 June 2021The D-Day landings of June 6 1944 were the largest amphibious landing in the history of warfare, and are famed as a major turning point towards...
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Democracy
1 June 2021In this episode taken from our back catalogue Professor Paul Cartledge the concept which is the foundation stone of our political culture: democracy....
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Slaves, Gold & Ivory: East African Trade Routes
1 June 2021Long before Atlantic trade routes became established East Africa had strong connections with the wider world, trading across the Indian Ocean and...
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
31 May 2021Ordered by King Henry VIII and carried out by Thomas Cromwell, the dissolution of the monasteries was the greatest land re-distribution in England...
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Tulsa Race Massacre
31 May 2021On May 31 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, was torn apart by one of the worst instances of racialised violence in American history. In a period of great racial...
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