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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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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25:40
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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25:40
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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29:40
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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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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38:51
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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Israel and Palestine: A Palestinian View with Yara Hawari
16 May 2021History is essential to understanding the world around us and this couldn't be more true than in the case of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The...
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Olympia: The Golden Age
16 May 2021For hundreds of years in antiquity, the sanctuary at Olympia was one of the most important religious sites in the Greek World, home to stunning...
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Malcolm Gladwell
15 May 2021Malcolm Gladwell has sold millions of books and more recently become a podcasting titan and he joins Dan to talk about his most recent project The...
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30:34
War Crimes and Innocence in Iraq
14 May 2021Following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003 British troops in Basra were confronted with a chaotic situation as looting and rioting...
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26:54
WW1: Britain's Submarine Strategy
14 May 2021From 1914 until 1917, submariners from Britain and Russia fought against the German Imperial Navy for control of the sea lanes in the icy Baltic....
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17th Century Female Spies
13 May 2021If you think that the female spy is a 20th century phenomenon, be it Mata Hari, Mrs Zigzag or Eve Polastri, think again! Accounts of numerous...
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Ian Fleming & The Birth of Bond
13 May 2021A suave secret agent and fictional character turned household name and multi-billion dollar franchise: we all know James Bond. But what about the man...
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Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
13 May 2021Situated north of the Hindu Kush and south of the Oxus (Amu Darya) River, the history of the ancient region of Bactria is rich and diverse. From...
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Motherhood, Working and Pandemics
12 May 2021Being a working mother is now an entirely normal part of life but this was certainly not always the case and was often seen as a social ill in the...
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