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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Origins of Aphrodite: The Sex-Positive Goddess
28 November 2025Who was Aphrodite? She's often thought of as a goddess of sexuality, but there's so much more to this woman.
Which ancient civilisation was...
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When the Vikings met the Slavs
28 November 2025Journey east with Matt Lewis and Martyn Whittock to uncover how the Vikings came face to face with the Slavs. Using clues like the Ingvar Rune...
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Thanksgiving
27 November 2025In the fall of 1621, a year after the pilgrim ship the Mayflower landed on the coast of New England, the settlers of the Plymouth Colony...
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27:46
The Assassination of JFK
27 November 2025Anyone alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, on November 22 1963. In this episode, Dan...
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Who Was Medieval Europe's Most Evil Monarch?
27 November 2025Who was the very worst of all the Medieval monarchs? No spoilers but we've got monarchs driven psychopathic by love, terrible sadists, and egos...
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The World's Oldest Letters
27 November 2025What do the world’s first letters reveal about life in the Bronze Age?
Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Amanda Podany to uncover the...
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Mother of All Tudors: Margaret Beaufort
27 November 2025Step into the turbulent heart of the Wars of the Roses and meet one of history’s most formidable survivors: Lady Margaret...
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Trial of Joan of Arc
25 November 2025How did a teenage girl stand up to armies, theologians, and kings?
Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by Professor Anne Curry to trace Joan of...
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The Truth About the Mitford Sisters
25 November 2025The Mitfords could rank as the strangest family of the 20th century.
Unity and Diana were passionate fascists who became obsessed with Adolf...
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Crime of the Century: Who Kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Jr?
24 November 2025The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one of the most influential crimes in American history; it plunged a national hero into an investigation which changed...
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Who was the Last Witch of Scotland?
24 November 2025With the nights closing in, what better time to re-visit a favourite episode of ours.
In 1727, Janet Horne of the Highland community of...
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John F. Kennedy: Myths vs Reality
24 November 2025John F. Kennedy was a man of charm, power, and contradictions. Behind the public image of the heroic president lay a figure plagued by pain,...
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Origins of Free Speech
24 November 2025Free speech is today more contested than ever before. In many places, differing views about politics, sex, and religion are suppressed and...
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The Incense Route Through Arabia
24 November 2025Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory takes our hero Basim ibn Ishaq from the glory of Baghdad in the Abbasid era to the remote oasis at...
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Emperor Tiberius: Monster or Misunderstood?
23 November 2025*WARNING: This podcast contains adult themes and discussion of paedophilia*
A brilliant general. A brooding autocrat. A recluse surrounded...
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Did Henry VIII Have An Affair With Anne Boleyn's Sister?
21 November 2025She was 'the Other Boleyn Girl' - Anne's sister, Mary, who supposedly had an affair with King Henry VIII. Such drama!
What evidence is there...
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Scotland's Stone of Scone
21 November 2025How did a medieval Scottish stone become the centre of a daring heist in the 1950's?
This is the extraordinary saga of the Stone of Scone,...
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What was the Satanic Panic?
20 November 2025Why were more than 12 thousand cases of satanic abuse brought in the 1980s? Was the Prince of Darkness walking among us then? Or did something...
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Could you Survive the Medieval Apocalypse?
20 November 2025For Medieval Europe, the Apocalypse wasn’t just a metaphor - it was very real and very imminent.
We are talking about the four horsemen,...
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Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
20 November 2025What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke?
In the 1580s Sir Walter Raleigh set about establishing a permanent English colony on Roanoke...
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The Spanish Armada
20 November 2025In 1588, Spain’s mighty armada sailed to invade England and change the balance of power in Europe. Dan explains why Philip II launched the...
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