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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Boer War: Kipling, Kingsley and Conan Doyle
7 April 2021In early 1900, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle crossed paths in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. Motivated in various...
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30 Years since the Kurdish Uprising
6 April 2021In the aftermath of the First Gulf War, groups rose up against Saddam Hussein's regime in a bid to win independence from Baghdad with devastating...
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Will This Be the New Roaring 20s?
5 April 2021Our impressions of the Roaring 20s are a time of economic growth, social change and in some cases wild debauchery, but were the Roaring 20s really a...
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WW1 & WW2's Biggest Conspiracies
5 April 2021Truth, rumour, conspiracy? Gill Bennett OBE had the job of sorting fact from fiction as chief historian of the Foreign Office from 1995-2005, and...
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300 years of British Prime Ministers: Part 1
4 April 2021We're heading back to the Eighteenth century as 300 years ago Sir Robert Walpole became the first prime minister. In this first episode of our Prime...
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Jewish Burial at the Time of Jesus
4 April 2021According to the Gospels, Jesus died and was removed from the cross on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath (Friday afternoon), before his body was...
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Violence Against Women in Victorian London
3 April 2021In the 1880s and 1890s Whitechapel, in London, become notorious for its violence especially towards women but what lessons can be drawn from this...
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The Truth About Easter
2 April 2021In one of the most popular episodes from our archive, Dan is joined by Francesca Stavrakopoulou to discuss the history and myths that surround...
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British Seapower in the 1900s
2 April 2021During the changes and troubles of the 20th century, officials in Britain faced a huge question: how could they maintain imperial power? Dr Louis...
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Hitler's Atlantic Wall
1 April 2021The Atlantic Wall is one of the biggest construction projects in history a line of formidable defences stretching from the Pyrenees to the Norwegian...
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The Xiongnu: History's First Nomadic Empire?
1 April 2021Between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, the Xiongnu inhabited the area surrounding Mongolia. They influenced the later Hun Empire, and had...
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Music and Humans
31 March 2021Today we take music for granted but humans have a unique relationship with the musical form which reaches back far into our ancient past. In this...
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Battle of Britain 'What Ifs'
31 March 2021Dr. Jamie Wood and Professor Niall Mackay at the University of York are mathematicians who love history. They released a paper which sent the rest of...
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Operation Jubilee: A Pinch Raid at Dieppe?
30 March 2021On 19 August 1942, a six thousand strong combined Allied landing force took part in a raid on Dieppe, Northern France. Sixty-seven percent of...
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The Man Who Dropped the First Bomb on Iraq
29 March 202130 years ago Maj. Gen. Greg "the beast" Feest dropped a bomb from his F-117 stealth bomber destroying an Iraqi command bunker which began the air war...
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GCHQ: A History
29 March 2021In this episode of Warfare we hear about what was happening behind the closed doors of GCHQ during the 20th century, from somebody who has been given...
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Boudica: Britain's Warrior Queen
28 March 2021This episode from our sibling podcast The Ancients is all about that hero of British folklore; Boudica. Her leadership of the Iceni in an uprising...
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Music in Ancient Greece
28 March 2021Without recordings, and with notation and instruments long forgotten, how can we possibly know what music soundtracked Ancient Greek life? James...
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Icelandic Volcanoes and Us
27 March 2021This explosive episode is all about the effects of Icelandic volcanoes on us all. In 1783 a massive eruption of Lakagígar volcano nearly forced the...
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Origins of Nuclear Power
26 March 2021The existence of nuclear weapons holds their owners in a position of mutually assured destruction with one another, but how did it come to be this...
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The Suez Canal
26 March 2021The creation of the Suez Canal was the culmination of a dream stretching back to the pharaohs of connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, but why...
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