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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Mysteries of Cerne Abbas Giant
25 May 2021It's not often a discovery shocks archeologists, but the revelation that the Cerne Abbas Giant could've been created in the late Saxon period has...
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Origins of the English in India
24 May 2021In the late 16th century, a group of London merchants petitioned Queen Elizabeth I to allow them to build English trade in Asia. She granted a...
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The UK’s Top Diplomat on the State of the World
24 May 2021Sir Jeremy Greenstock served as a diplomat from the 1960s to the well into the 21st century and is someone who has been in the room when some of the...
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Invention of Torpedoes
24 May 2021When the self-propelled torpedo was invented in the late 19th century, it threatened to revolutionize naval warfare. The weapon was instrumental in...
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Martin Luther: Scourge of the Papacy
23 May 2021Martin Luther is one of the most extraordinary and consequential men of the last 500 years but was also a man keenly aware of his image and went to...
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Ancient Polynesia: Pioneers of the Pacific
22 May 2021Despite sporadic food sources and the dangers of the deep sea, the remote islands of the Pacific Ocean have been home to Polynesians for more than a...
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Eurovision
22 May 2021Eurovision is an annual extravaganza of European music and culture but what is its history and what role does it play? To help explore this subject...
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The Plots Against Henry VII
22 May 2021After seizing the throne from Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, the drama in Henry VII's life had only just begun. In this second episode with...
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Israel and Palestine: A Jewish Perspective with Daniel Finkelstein
21 May 2021As part of our season of programmes looking at the Arab-Israeli conflict Lord Daniel Finklestein joins the podcast to discuss his perspective as a...
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WW2: Women of the Special Operations Executive
21 May 2021With the role of coordinating resistance overseas, the task of a member of the Special Operations Executive could be extremely influential, but...
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Anne Boleyn: New Discoveries
20 May 2021Anne Boleyn has been trending on Twitter after it was announced that secret inscriptions were found hidden in the Book of Hours that she took...
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The Amelia Earhart Mystery with Amelia Rose Earhart
20 May 2021On the morning of May 20, 1932, 34-year-old Earhart set off from Newfoundland, Canada in her bid to become the first woman to fly solo across...
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The Truth About King Arthur
19 May 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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Anne Boleyn Special Part 1: Life and Afterlives
19 May 2021In the first of two special podcasts, from our sibling podcast Not Just the Tudors, to mark the 485th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death, Suzannah...
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The V-2 Rocket
19 May 2021It was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile, developed to avenge the bombings of German cities during the Second World War. For this...
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Gone Medieval
18 May 2021Dan is joined by the wonderful Cat Jarman who, along with Matt Lewis, will be presenting History Hit's brand new podcast Gone Medieval. They discuss...
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The Rise of Henry VII
18 May 2021Henry VII has been an unbudging figure in British history since taking the throne in 1485. Nathen Amin has been researching this king, and here, in...
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Vikings in Northern Britain
18 May 2021Archeological evidence of the Vikings as far north as Northumbria has practically been non-existent...until now. In an exclusive for Gone Medieval,...
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Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives
17 May 2021In the first of two special podcasts to mark the 485th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death, Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by a panel of experts to...
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The Western Front
17 May 2021The Western Front in 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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Life in the Gulag
17 May 2021It was not until 1956 that the Soviet Union repatriated the last of their German prisoners of war. To find out more about the experience of these...
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