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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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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Battle of Britain: Why The RAF Won
24 February 2021In 15 September 1940, the Luftwaffe made a gigantic aerial assault on London in the belief that the Royal Air Force was down to its last few...
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Remembering the Alamo with W. F. Strong
23 February 2021In this episode taken from our archive, I headed out to Texas in 2016 to discuss the Battle of the Alamo and what its legacy means for modern Texas....
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John of Gaunt: THE Royal Ancestor
22 February 2021Helen Carr joins me today to discuss John of Gaunt: son of Edward III, younger brother to the Black Prince, uncle of Richard II and father of Henry...
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Scapa Flow's Sunken German Battle Fleet
22 February 2021At the end of World War One, the Allies seized the German fleet and held it at Scapa Flow, in Orkney, until the terms of the Treaty of Versailles...
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In Conversation with David Baddiel
21 February 2021In this episode taken from our archive, David Baddiel talks to Dan about the Second World War, Trump's Mussolini-isms, and why Jim Callaghan makes...
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Lugdunum: The Biggest Battle in Roman History?
21 February 2021In 197 AD, the armies of Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus met at Lugdunum, on the site of present day Lyon. If we believe the numbers given in...
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Brexit History Showdown with Robert Tombs
20 February 2021Five years after the announcement of the Brexit referendum I am joined on the podcast by Robert Tombs, author of The Sovereign Isle: Britain In and...
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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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