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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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.
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The Indian Army in WW1
11 January 2021Over one hundred years after the end of the First World War, Dr Priya Atwal and George Morton-Jackare working to shed new light on the vital role...
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Oppian’s Halieutica: Creatures of the Ancient Deep
10 January 2021The deep blue sea is the subject of speculation to this day but, in this episode, we have access to the mysteries, myths and misgivings that were...
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Goose Green: A Veteran Remembers
10 January 2021John Geddes joined the Parachute Regiment as a teenager in the late 1970s. Within a couple of years he was plunged into the Falklands War and the...
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2008 Financial Crash with Adam Tooze
9 January 2021Dan speaks to economic historian Adam Tooze for the tenth anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse in this special podcast.
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Insurrection in America
8 January 2021As an armed mob broke into the US Capitol, Dan talked long into the night to his friend and star blogger known only as the Angry Staff Officer. He is...
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24:48
The Lancaster Bomber
8 January 2021The ‘Shining Sword’ of Bomber Command. They flew nearly 300 thousand sorties and dropped over 1 million tonnes of explosives. But of the 7,377...
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How Ancient Egypt Stayed Egyptian
7 January 2021The length of time between the rule of Cleopatra and the erection of the Pyramids is the same as that between now and the birth of Jesus Christ. With...
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Hannibal: Battle by the Trebia
7 January 2021It’s 218 BC, and Hannibal has made the mammoth journey across the Alps en route to Italy, accompanied by his army, their horses, and their...
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The Inquisition
6 January 2021Jessica Dalton joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of the Inquisition. We discussed the Roman Inquisition, the Spanish Inquisition,...
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Nerve Agents: A History
6 January 2021In 2018, the British city of Salisbury crashed into newspaper headlines worldwide when former Russian military officer Sergei Skripal and his...
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The Partition of Ireland
5 January 2021Patricia Clavin, Niamh Gallagher and Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid joined me on the pod to discuss the history of the partition of...
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