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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The Renaissance Lute
27 May 2021The lute, with its double strings and beautiful decorative detail is a familiar feature of Renaissance paintings. In the sixteenth century, lute...
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Sinking the Bismarck
27 May 2021In May 1941 Nazi Germany's most powerful warship and pride of the Kriegsmarine the Bismarck slipped out of harbour and made its way to hunt Allied...
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Alexander the Great's First Persian Victory
26 May 2021If there had been a different outcome to the Battle of Granicus, we might never have heard about Alexander the Great. Taking place in 334 BC, this...
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Mary Anning: Palaeontology's Forgotten Pioneer
26 May 2021Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector whose story continues to inspire so many scientists...
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Vietnam War
26 May 2021With battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, and then defeat and public criticism for the United States in 1975, the Vietnam War became the...
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Hunting the Bismarck
25 May 2021In May 1941, the Royal Navy pursued Nazi Germany's largest battleship, the Bismarck, in the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare....
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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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