History Hit Podcasts
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The Mystery of Mithras: A Pagan Christmas?
24 December 2020The clichéd Christmas: white snow, hot fires, mulled wine and a feast. This might not be the case were the holiday not to fall on 25 December and,...
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The 1914 Christmas Truce (part 1)
23 December 2020On Christmas Eve 1914 many sectors of the Western Front in France and Belgium fell silent. Troops from all sides put down their weapons and sang...
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Munitions in WW1: The Devil's Porridge
23 December 2020Harsh living and working conditions, poisonous chemicals and explosions. For 10,000 navvies, hundreds of chemists and engineers from across the...
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When Parliament Cancelled Christmas
22 December 2020On 19 December 1644 the English Parliament banned Christmas. EXACTLY 376 years later to the day, Boris Johnson announced that this year the...
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Saturnalia: Bonus Episode!
22 December 2020In this episode from the History Hit archive, Dan talks to Kevin Butcher about the Roman festival of Saturnalia. Held between the 17 and 23 December,...
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Hannibal: Crossing the Alps
21 December 2020In 218 BCE, Hannibal Barca's Carthaginian army, accompanied by horses and elephants, completed one of the most audacious military marches of...
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The Great Escape
21 December 2020On the night of 24 March 1944, 200 allied prisoners of war attempted to escape Stalag Luft III, a camp in Germany. 76 escaped, but 73 were recaptured...
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Hannibal: Crossing the Alps
20 December 2020In 218 BCE, Hannibal Barca's Carthaginian army, accompanied by horses and elephants, completed one of the most audacious military marches of...
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Soviet Spy in the Cotswolds with Ben Macintyre
20 December 2020Ben Macintyre joined me on the podcast to talk about Ursula Kuczynski, one of the greatest spies of the 20th Century.
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History Hit Presents 'The Christmas Truce'
19 December 2020The Christmas Truce was one of the most miraculous episodes in the history of warfare, and History Hit have a major new podcast and film dropping...
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Britain's Black Power Movement
19 December 2020Leila Hassan Howe and Amanda Kirton joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of the Black Power movement in Britain.
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The Violence of the Suffragettes
18 December 2020Today we remember the suffragettes as a peaceful movement, but in the years before the First World War, the WSPU launched one of the most shocking...
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Authoritarianism
18 December 2020Professor Tim Snyder is an expert in authoritarian regimes and how they develop. As the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, he...
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Sicily '43
17 December 2020James Holland joined me on the podcast to discuss the allied invasion of Sicily on the 10th July 1943.
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Thucydides: Thoughts on the Athenian Empire
17 December 2020From 478 BCE until 404 BCE, a collection of Greek city-states were united under the leadership of Athens. Beyond inscriptions and a few minor...
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Ethiopia: All You Need to Know
16 December 2020Richard Reid joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of Ethiopia.
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The Nazi-Soviet Partnership
16 December 2020On 23 August 1939, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed a pact in Moscow. This pact...
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How Dogs Became Man's Best Friend
14 December 2020Mike Loades joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of dogs, and they are intertwined with human history.
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The Dambusters
14 December 2020On 16–17 May 1943, Royal Airforce Squadron 617 succeeded in Operation Chastise to use bouncing bombs to breach the Möhne and Edersee dams,...
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The Garamantes: Farming the Sahara
13 December 2020Greco-Roman historians including Herodotus, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder would have us believe that the Garamantes were simple uncivilized cattle...
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Adolf Hitler: The War Years
13 December 2020At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat....
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