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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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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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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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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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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The Renaissance
5 March 2021Today on the podcast we're going to talk all about the Renaissance. We have all heard of it as a reawakening, a rebirth of European culture but what...
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Churchill and the Iron Curtain
5 March 2021‘From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.’ These words - spoken by Winston...
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What's Going on in Myanmar?
4 March 2021Myanmar is currently experiencing one of its worst-ever periods of violence and civil unrest as the population protests against the recent military...
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The Origins of Warfare
4 March 2021Popular discussions of human history are punctuated with conflict, but when did warfare begin? To discuss this massive question, Professor Nam Kim...
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Cheddar Man: Science and the Skeleton
3 March 2021Today's episode is from our brilliant sibling podcast The Ancients. Cheddar Man is the oldest almost complete skeleton of a Homo sapien ever found in...
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The Nazis Next Door
3 March 2021As many as 10,000 members of the Nazi party and the SS are estimated to have moved to the United States after the Second World War, legally and...
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French Resistance Heroine Heading to the Oscars?
2 March 2021Joining me on the podcast today are Alice Doyard and Anthony Giacchino to discuss their film Colette: The french resistance fighter confronting...
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Queens of Jerusalem
1 March 2021In today's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Katherine Pangonis a historian specialising in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and Middle...
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Life of a Luftwaffe Ace: Hugo Broch
1 March 2021During the Second World War, Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hugo Broch claimed 81 victories in 324 missions on the Eastern Front. At Chalke Valley History...
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The Gulf War: 30 Years On
28 February 2021On this day thirty years ago a ceasefire was declared bringing ground operations in the first Gulf War to an end. An overwhelmingly powerful...
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Cheddar Man: Science and the Skeleton
28 February 2021Cheddar Man is the oldest almost complete skeleton of a Homo sapien ever found in Britain and, for this fantastic episode, Tristan spoke to the...
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Lockdown Learning: The 19th Century Medical Revolution
26 February 2021The 19th century saw the world in the grip of the industrial revolution, a firepower revolution on the battlefield and a communications revolution...
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Daughters of Yalta
26 February 2021In February 1945, the ‘Big Three’ met for arguably the most important and controversial of the conferences of the Second World War. At the Yalta...
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The Doolittle Raid
25 February 2021Today, we're talking about one of the great stories of American military history; The Doolittle Raid. In 1942 after the humiliation assault on Pearl...
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Petra: Rise of the Nabataeans
25 February 2021The assumption had once been that they were nomads until the Romans came. But more recent archaeological work in modern day Jordan is dispelling...
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Anti-government Violence in America
24 February 2021Leah Sottile joins me today to talk all about domestic terrorism and anti-government groups in the USA. In particular, we talk about the armed...
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