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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Boudica: Through Roman Eyes
21 March 2021The Iceni warrior who led a revolt against the Roman Empire around 60 AD often stands alone in our memory of ancient queens in Britain, but in this...
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Napoleon: Captive on Saint Helena
21 March 2021Saint Helena is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. Nearly a thousand mile from the nearest piece of land, this recently created...
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The Census
20 March 2021Here in the UK, it's census time! Today, I'm joined on the podcast by one of the nations favourite family historians Dr Michala Hulme who certainly...
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The War in the East: Part 1 with Bill Frankland
19 March 2021In this episode taken from our archive, I talk to Dr Bill Frankland (19 March 1912 – 2 April 2020), a veteran of World War Two who lived through...
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The American Way of War: A History
19 March 2021From Ancient Greece, through the Enlightenment, the Napoleonic Wars, The First World War, then the Second, and all the way through to modern drone...
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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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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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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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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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