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 Aztecs
6 May 2021What we know about the Aztecs of Mexico often comes from the accounts of their Spanish conquerors. But the Aztec culture was far more sophisticated...
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How Corinth Became Christian
6 May 2021Occupied since around 3000 BC, the Ancient city of Corinth is not unique in its transition from a Pagan, Greco-Roman state to a Christian one. What...
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A Scandalous Duchess
5 May 2021Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston was a duchess who attracted scandal, a duchess who divided opinion, a duchess who refused to give up agency...
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Napoleon's Death
5 May 2021Six years of exile on a remote island blighted with unpleasant weather conditions, in lodgings far inferior to those enjoyed whilst leader of France,...
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Pre-historic Britain in Seven Burials with Alice Roberts
4 May 2021How much can a burial really tell us about our ancient past? Professor Alice Roberts is today's guest and, as her new book Ancestors demonstrates,...
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The Apollo Program with Kevin Fong
3 May 2021Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from the ground...
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The Queer Shakespeare: John Lyly
3 May 2021John Lyly's name may not be so familiar. He was a playwright and poet writing at the same time as Shakespeare and, in his day, was more famous than...
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Napoleon
3 May 2021He is widely remembered as one of the most exceptional military commanders that the world has ever seen, a man whose influence was so pervasive that...
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The Truth About The Huns
2 May 2021The Huns! The name of this ancient people triggers a multiplicity of responses and evokes a number of images (nearly all of them negative). They...
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Amend: The Fight for America
2 May 2021Take a deep dive into the remaking of the American Constitution and the 14th amendment created in the wake of the American Civil War. The 14th...
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The Olympic Games
2 May 2021The most famous sporting event in the world is upon us, so it's only right that we consider what do we know about the ancient origins of the games...
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The Death of Hitler
1 May 2021Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker, or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? There have been innumerable...
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Captain Cook: The Aboriginal Perspective
30 April 2021Captain Cook has been celebrated, wrongly, as the first European to discover Australia but many now believe it is time to reappraise his legacy...
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Operation Barbarossa
30 April 2021Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on Sunday 22 June 1941 was one of the bloodiest military campaigns mankind has ever known. Now, BAFTA winning...
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Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
29 April 2021In the heart of Shakespeare's London, there was a palace that had become a prison: Bridewell. Professor Duncan Salkeld has explored the records of...
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Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe
29 April 2021Venetian ambassador Sebastian Giustinian described Henry VIII as the 'best dressed sovereign in the world'. The King spent the equivalent of £2...
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Velazquez and the Spanish Court
29 April 2021Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Laura Cumming - author and art critic for The Observer - about Velázquez, arguably the greatest genius of...
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An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf
29 April 2021The witch-hunts of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe are well-known. But did you know that some 300 people were convicted of being werewolves?...
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Not Just the Tudors
29 April 2021When thinking about the 16th century the Tudor dynasty often comes to the fore, but the was so much more to this extraordinary period to be explored....
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The Battle of Okinawa
28 April 2021The last major confrontation of the Second World War and the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre, the Battle of Okinawa ended in Allied...
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WW2: The Texel Uprising
28 April 2021In the dying days of the Second World War, a group of Georgians rose up against their German overlords on the Dutch island of Texel. Thousands of...
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