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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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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How Slavery Built Modern Britain
12 December 2020Padraic Scanlan joined me on the podcast to talk about how Britain rose to global power on the backs of enslaved workers. Modern Britain has...
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Disinformation and the White Helmets in Syria
11 December 2020Chloe Hadjimatheou joined me on the podcast to talk about the death of James Le Mesurier, the man who co-founded the White Helmets, a Syrian civil...
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The Atomic Bomb
11 December 2020On 6 August 1945, an American B29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was at the...
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Spartacus: Life or Legend?
10 December 2020‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, is legendary. Directed by Stanley Kibrick,...
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Scotland's Enigmatic Ancient Structures
10 December 2020Brochs. Early archaeologists believed that they must have been built by the Danish, that the indigenous population could never have managed it. More...
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Big Data and History
9 December 2020Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin joined me on the podcast to talk about the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of...
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Soviet Spy Masters
9 December 2020Espionage. The word brings to mind the Cold War - Stasi informants and surveillance bugging in East Berlin. Or today’s media promoted anxieties...
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Mary Queen of Scots with Kate Williams
8 December 2020Dan Snow and Kate Williams talk about the rise and fall of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Diary of an MP's Wife
7 December 2020Sasha Swire joined me on the podcast to talk about her diary, written during the Cameron years. Her husband was an MP and junior minister at the...
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Germans at the Somme
7 December 2020The Battle of the Somme is remembered in Britain as one of the bloodiest events of the First World War, and perhaps all time. There were over a...
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Charles Dickens
6 December 2020In today's episode, I was joined by John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has...
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Old Testament Warriors
6 December 2020It’s probably the most famous book in the world, and it’s also essentially the only literary source which covers the genesis of warfare and the...
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Ghost Hunter!
4 December 2020Kate Summerscale has written one of the Sunday Time books of the year exploring the world of poltergeists and ghosts in the build up to the Second...
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German Plots Against Hitler
4 December 2020They may even have helped Adolf Hitler to reach power in 1933, but at the very top of the German hierachy some brave insurgents had begun, by 1936,...
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Sylvia Pankhurst
3 December 2020Rachel Holmes joined me on the podcast to discuss the life of British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst. Sylvia found her voice fighting...
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