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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Vikings: River Kings
19 February 2021Today, I am joined by Cat Jarman bio-archaeologist and author of a new book all about how the Vikings spread east, often utilising the rivers of...
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William Stephenson: Declaring War on the Nazis
19 February 2021Henry Hemming talks to Dan Snow about the life of William Stephenson, a British operative who worked hard to pressure Roosevelt into declaring war on...
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Frostquake
18 February 2021In the winter of 1962-63, the UK experienced a different kind of lockdown as freezing temperatures and ten weeks of snow kept people trapped at home...
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Palmyra: Pearl of the Desert
18 February 2021Palmyra features in headlines today as a casualty of IS destruction, but during its heyday it was a monumental city set on an oasis in the Syrian...
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Besieging Masada
17 February 2021Dramatically placed on a plateau with drops of 400m to the east and 90m to the west, Masada translates from Hebrew as fortress. It became just...
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War Widows of WW2
17 February 2021After the Second World War, societies across the world struggled under a mass of social and political change. This disjointed period serves as the...
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Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen
16 February 2021We cover all the big topics on the podcast including weapons of mass destruction, climate change, great power rivalry and the struggle for...
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Hitler and Stalin
15 February 2021I am joined by Laurence Rees, the best selling author, who has met more people that had direct contact with both Hitler and Stalin than any other...
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Cluster Bombs
15 February 2021In 1943, Grimsby was hit by a new type of weapon: butterfly bombs, also know as cluster bombs. This episode from Dan Snow's History Hit features the...
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Myths of Masada
14 February 2021In 73 AD, 967 Jewish rebels against the Romans committed mass suicide atop the Masada Fortress. Or did they? In this second part of Tristan’s...
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Living Through the Dresden Firebombing with Victor Gregg
13 February 2021Victor Gregg is a veteran of World War Two and the Dresden Bombings, and travelled with Dan to visit Dresden a couple of years ago for a documentary....
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Lockdown Learning: The Rise of USA
12 February 2021For Lockdown Learning this week I am joined by Dr Fabian Hilfrich, head of American History at Edinburgh University. He takes us through from the...
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Alderney's Sunken German Arsenal
12 February 2021Alderney, like the rest of the Channel Islands, was occupied by German forces from 1940 to 1945. On Hitler's orders it was turned into a fortress,...
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The 18th Century Precedent for Trump's Impeachment
11 February 2021As the impeachment trial of Donald Trump got underway in the USA the 18th-century case of Warren Hastings, the former Governor-General of Bengal was...
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Rome: 'The Eternal City'
11 February 2021Rome. The Eternal City. One of the most recognisable names that many associate with the Ancient Mediterranean World. To provide a detailed run...
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Empire with Sathnam Sanghera
10 February 2021Journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera joins me on the podcast to talk about his latest book Empireland which examines how much of what we think of...
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The Real 'Testament of Youth'
10 February 2021During the first year of the First World War, Vera Brittain went from studying English Literature at Oxford to nursing for the war effort. By the...
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Historical Novels with Ken Follett
9 February 2021Today, I am joined by best-selling author Ken Follett to discuss his latest book The Evening and the Morning. We also talk about his love of history...
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China 1949: Year of Revolution
8 February 2021In 1949 Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party to victory in the long and bloody Chinese Civil War. The impact of this victory was felt not...
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Battle of the Somme
8 February 2021It was the first truly industrial battle, and yet veterans recall hearing skylarks singing just before the whistles blew at the Battle of the Somme....
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Sutton Hoo
7 February 2021The release of The Dig has brought the story of the Sutton Hoo dig to the forefront of people’s minds of late. The real hero of that story...
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