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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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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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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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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