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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A Complete History of Medieval Ireland
27 March 2026What happens when a kidnapped teenager returns to the land of his captors to change it forever? Dr Eleanor Janega and James Hawes romp through...
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The Truth about Charlie Chaplin
27 March 2026Charlie Chaplin had an extraordinary life: from the workhouses of Victorian London to the glamorous films sets of Hollywood's Golden Age.
He...
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Rise and Fall of the Shakers
26 March 2026The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, best known as the Shakers, emerged in the UK in the 18th Century. So how is it that...
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Britain's First Ghost Hunt
26 March 2026It was the original modern ghost hunt, the one that set the template for all the haunted houses to come. When a wealthy plantation family moves...
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The Rise and Fall of Pirate Captain Kidd
26 March 2026Was Captain William Kidd a ruthless pirate or a pawn in a royal gamble gone wrong? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Debbie Kilroy trace his...
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The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
26 March 2026What happens when a defensive alliance slowly turns into an empire? Tristan Hughes and Professor Polly Low explore the Delian League, the...
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The Real Peaky Blinders
26 March 2026Today, we step beyond the slow-motion swagger and into the gritty, complex reality of the Peaky Blinders. Who were the gangsters behind the myths?...
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1066 New Discovery: The Myth of Harold's March
24 March 2026What if one of the most famous stories in English history never happened? What if King Harold did not march his exhausted troops 200 miles before...
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Did Fashion Kill Marie Antoinette?
24 March 2026Marie Antoinette went to her death as one of the most hated people in the world, but in recent years she has inspired millions with her style. How...
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The Texas Rangers | The Frontier
23 March 2026We've all heard of the Texas Rangers: an undoubted icon of the American West.
In this week’s instalment of our Frontier series, we’ll be...
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Dark Side of the Celts: Wicker Men and trophy heads
23 March 2026The Ancient Celts: feared in battle, guided by Druids, and bound together by ritual.
Long before Rome pushed north, Celtic peoples ruled...
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The Da Vinci of Medieval Baghdad: Who Were The Sons Of Moses?
23 March 2026Assassin’s Creed Mirage sheds a rare light on Banu Musa - the Sons of Moses. These genius brothers play a small but crucial role in the game,...
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Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?
23 March 2026Who had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII? When Henry Tudor took the crown on the battlefield at Bosworth, his hereditary...
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The Commanders: Yamamoto
23 March 2026Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the mastermind of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbour that dragged the United States into the Second World War....
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Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
22 March 2026In 480 BC, at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, a vastly outnumbered Greek force prepares to face the advancing army of the Persian king Xerxes. At...
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Hollywood's Shocking First Sex Symbols
20 March 2026Nearly 100 years ago, films in Hollywood were so much sexier and shocking than you might think they were.
One of the most shocking things...
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Viking Scotland: The Siege of Dumbarton
20 March 2026What happens when Vikings stop raiding and start laying siege to a mighty rock fortress on the Clyde?
Matt Lewis is joined by Todd Ferguson...
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
19 March 2026This is the largest battle, by number of combatants, of the entire Civil War. But why? What was the federal objective at Fredericksburg? And how...
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What if the Ides of March Failed?
19 March 2026What if Julius Caesar had survived the Ides of March? This episode explores his last known plans — vast eastern campaigns, sweeping...
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Were the Princes in the Tower murdered?
19 March 2026It's one of history's greatest mysteries - 'what happened to the Princes in the Tower?' In 1483, young Edward V and his brother Richard were...
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The Rise of Putin and the 1999 Apartment Bombs
19 March 2026In September 1999, just weeks after 46-year-old Vladimir Putin became Russia’s prime minister, a series of apartment bombings ripped through...
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