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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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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Besieging Masada
7 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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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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Emily Davison with Kate Willoughby
6 February 2021In this episode, originally released in 2018, Dan talks to actor, activist, and "part-time suffragette" Kate Willoughby about Emily Davison, the...
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Lockdown Learning: Interwar Europe
5 February 2021For this episode of Lockdown Learning Professor Richard Toye joined me on the podcast to talk about the interwar period and answer the key...
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WW1: Finding The Dead
5 February 2021Dan talks to Richard van Emden about his book - Missing: the need for closure after the Great War, in this episode from the History Hit archive....
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The History of Social Media with Kara Swisher
4 February 2021Facebook was founded on the 4th of February 2004 and began as a tool to stay in touch with friends and family, but has ended up being a place...
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Beasts of Battle: Indian War Elephants
4 February 2021The four components of the Ancient Indian battlefield: infantry, cavalry, chariots … and elephants. These magnificent creatures were dominant in...
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The AIDS pandemic
3 February 2021In this episode of the podcast, I’m joined by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, hosts of The Log Books podcast, to discuss the Aids pandemic of the...
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