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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King George V in WW1
25 January 2021King George V played a critical role in Britain's war effort during World War One, from the outbreak of war in 1914, until the King's Pilgrimage in...
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The Mystery of the Ninth Legion
24 January 2021The legions of Rome were the nucleus of Rome’s military might for centuries. From campaigning in northern Scotland to the Persian Gulf, these...
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Cold War Submarine Warrior
24 January 2021Eric Thompson has had his finger literally on the nuclear button. He joined the Royal Navy submarine service in the early days of the Cold War. He...
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Lucy Worsley on Queen Victoria
23 January 2021BAFTA winning historian and Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley takes Dan on a tour of Kensington Palace, one of the...
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Lockdown Learning: The Middle Ages
22 January 2021In this week's Lockdown Learning episode, I was delighted to be joined by medieval historian Marc Morris. We discuss broad themes relating to the...
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Surviving Arnhem: Colonel John Waddy’s War
22 January 2021For this incredible episode, Dan spoke to the late Colonel John Waddy OBE. John was the last surviving veteran of the battle for Arnhem, Operation...
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Rediscovering Amazon Civilisations
21 January 2021Ella Al-Shamahi, explorer, paleoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist and stand-up comic, joined me on the podcast to talk about Amazon...
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Edges of Empire: The Sasanian Frontiers
21 January 2021For centuries, arguably the greatest external threat the Roman Empire faced came from the East. From the Sasanian Persian Empire. With its nucleus...
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Marissa Roth, Photojournalist
20 January 2021Marissa Roth, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, joins me on the podcast to talk about her pictures of the 1992 LA riots and lifetime of war...
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The Secret Nazi Found in an Armchair
20 January 2021This episode is all about Robert Griesinger. ‘Who?’ you ask. The name means nothing to most, yet his was a life which impacted upon so many, and...
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Indonesian Cave Art: A Dramatic New Discovery
19 January 2021It’s a paradox for the ages, breaking news about people who lived and died thousands of years ago. This discovery is no different, because Adam...
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The Second Reich
18 January 2021On 18 January 1871 as the Siege of Paris raged a couple of miles away King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed Emperor of the German empire in the...
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Bombing Campaigns in WW2
18 January 2021In the spring of 1945, the aerial assault on Germany was reaching a crescendo as city after city was devastated by British and American bomber...
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Indonesian Cave Art: A Dramatic New Discovery
17 January 2021It’s a paradox for the ages, breaking news about people who lived and died thousands of years ago. This discovery is no different, because Adam...
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Gulf War: Inside the Planning Room
17 January 2021On 17 January 1991, an operation to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait began. Codenamed Desert Storm, the air offensive continued for 43 days under US...
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Impeaching the President
17 January 2021He's made history. Donald Trump has become the only President in US history to be impeached not once but twice. Three years ago Dan talked to Joshua...
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Lockdown Learning: The Tudors
15 January 2021We're very pleased to bring you this special 'Lockdown Learning' episode of the podcast, featuring the brilliant Dr Anna Whitelock on the Tudor...
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The Unknown Warrior
15 January 2021On 11 November 1920, the Unknown Warrior, a common soldier and an unidentified casualty of war, was buried in Westminster Abbey with all the pomp and...
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Treason in America
14 January 2021Constitutional law and legal history scholar Carlton Larson talked to Dan during Christmas about treason in the American legal system. How is it...
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Tomyris: A Warrior Queen's Revenge
14 January 2021Her legend afforded her a place alongside Eve, Cleopatra and Venus, to name just a few of the famous women whose biographies were collected by...
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LGBTQ+ History: With the team from the Logbooks Podcast
13 January 2021Tash Walker and Adam Zmith join me to talk about The Log Books Podcast, a history of LGBTQ+ life in the UK.