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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Another History of Ideas with David Runciman
18 March 2021Today, I am joined once again by Professor David Runciman to talk about the second series of his brilliant History of Ideas podcast. The series looks...
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Petra: The Rose City
18 March 2021A city of caves, temples and tombs, Petra gains its nickname from the pink sandstone from which it was carved. In this second part of his...
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St Patrick's Day
17 March 2021We all have a story about St Patrick's Day and our guest on the podcast today, Adrian Mulligan has a few. Adrian is an Associate Professor of...
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Montgomery: Britain’s Best Known Field Marshall
17 March 2021From fighting on the front line as a Junior Officer in the first days of the First World War, to commanding Allied ground forces on D-Day, the...
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The My Lai Massacre
16 March 2021On the 16th March 1968, the My Lai Massacre occurred in South Vietnam. 350-500 men, women, children and babies were brutally killed by US troops...
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The Ides of March
15 March 2021Today's podcast is an episode taken from our sibling podcast The Ancients. In 4 BC, the Ides of March took on a new significance. Previously...
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The Enigma of Dieppe
15 March 2021Almost 80 years after the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942, David O’Keefe has uncovered the secret mission to pinch Enigma related material...
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Written Constitutions with Linda Colley
14 March 2021On the podcast today we have the legendary Linda Colley to talk all about her new book examining the phenomenon of written constitutions. From...
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The Ides of March
14 March 2021In 44 BC, the Ides of March took on a new significance. Previously observed as the first full moon of the new year, the 15 March is today...
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Vikings in America
12 March 2021The Vikings were one of the great exploring peoples of the past. They travelled east along the rivers to the Silk Road, they explored west across the...
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Operation Jubilee: A Pinch Raid at Dieppe?
12 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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History of Homelessness
11 March 2021Throughout history homelessness has been given many names vagrancy, vagabonding, tramping. Indeed, homeless people have been seen in different...
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Women and Power in Ancient Egypt
11 March 2021Kara Cooney has been studying 6 of the remarkable female pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. In this episode she explains why many of them have been...
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When We Nearly Nuked the Moon
10 March 2021Vince Houghton joins me on the podcast today to talk about some of the weirdest and craziest ideas put forward during the twentieth century. We're...
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Coventry's Blitz
10 March 2021On the night of 14 November 1940, a Luftwaffe air raid devastated the city of Coventry. Over 500 people were killed, more than 4,300 homes...
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Michael Palin: Erebus and Terror
9 March 2021In this archive episode, Dan Snow wrangles with a Python! He talks to comedy legend Michael Palin about his book, Erebus The Story of a Ship. The...
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On This Day She
8 March 2021To help celebrate International Women's Day I am joined on the podcast by Tania Hershman, Ailsa Holland and Jo Bell founders of On This Day She....
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The Bletchley Girls
8 March 2021During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the home of a top-secret code breaking centre. Only in the 1970s did people begin to discuss what...
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Boudica: Britain's Warrior Queen
7 March 2021Boudica has become a hero of British folklore. Her leadership of the Iceni in an uprising against the forces of the Roman Empire in around 60 AD is...
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Eddie the Eagle
7 March 2021I am joined by an absolute legend on the podcast today; Eddie the Eagle. He became an overnight sensation during the 1988 Winter Olympics as the...
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The British Landscape: 12,000 years of history
6 March 2021Nicholas Crane is a geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented four notable television series for BBC Two: Coast,...
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