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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How and Why History: Alfred the Great
22 September 2020Ever since his reign in the 9th century, Alfred the Great has been celebrated as one of the most accomplished of our kings. A learned and...
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Pearl Harbour
22 September 2020In this episode, History Hit's Rob Weinberg asks the big questions about Sunday 7 December 1941, the day Japanese aircraft attacked the United States...
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V2 with Robert Harris
21 September 2020Robert Harris joined me on the podcast to talk about Nazi Germany and the story of the V2 rocket.
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The Light Ages
20 September 2020Seb Falk joined me to discuss the science in the Middle Ages, or, according to his new book, 'The Light Ages'. They gave us the first...
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The Rise of Constantine
20 September 2020The Emperor Constantine I, better known as Constantine the Great, is one of the most significant emperors in Roman history. His later Christian...
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Battle of Britain: What Were the Germans Thinking?
19 September 2020Victoria Taylor is an aviation historian who is just completing her PhD in the Luftwaffe and its politicisation under the Nazis. She talked to me...
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Budapest Ghetto
19 September 2020Born in Budapest in July 1944, Agnes Grunwald-Spier resided in the Ghetto with her mother from November 1944 to January 1945. Having gained degrees...
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The History of Unbelief
18 September 2020Dan delves into the history of unbelief - or rather, past people who didn't believe in God(s). He talks to Professor Tim Whitmarsh about Greek...
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What Really Happened on D-Day?
18 September 2020Giles Milton has been researching D-Day from a new perspective - that of the youngsters who were involved in the first wave of the offensive. For...
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Arnhem, Satire, Bartending and Drums
17 September 2020Comedian, historian, broadcaster Al Murray joins me on the podcast to discuss Arnhem. The British-Polish allied defeat at Arnhem took place in autumn...
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
17 September 2020This week's episode from the History Hit archive features the brilliant Tom Holland telling the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, an epic story of...
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How and Why History: The United Nations at 75
16 September 2020In the aftermath of the Second World War, 850 delegates from 50 nations gathered in San Fransisco, determined to establish an organisation which...
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Battle of Britain: A British Veteran's View
15 September 2020In this episode, Dan speaks to the late Wing Commander Thomas Neil, who fought in the Battle of Britain. Thomas joined the RAF Volunteer...
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Battle of Britain: Why the RAF Won
15 September 202080 years ago, in 15 September 1940, the Luftwaffe made a gigantic aerial assault on London in the belief that the Royal Air Force was down to its...
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Mayflower 400
14 September 2020I am joined on the podcast by a series of historians, writers and storytellers, to talk about the 400th anniversary of the journey of the...
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
13 September 2020In this short episode, Dan visits Sarajevo on the trail of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, his wife and his assassin, Gavrilo Princip. It was their fatal...
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Alexander the Great: Through Persian Eyes
13 September 2020Conqueror. Destroyer. Convert. Legendary king. It's fair to say that Alexander the Great's relationship with ancient Persia was complicated....
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A Medieval Education
13 September 2020Eleanor Janega joined me on the pod to discuss the educational institutions of the medieval period. We talk about student riots in Paris, the role...
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Frontline Nursing in WW1
12 September 2020In amongst the ranks of the heroic female wartime nurses Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell is a lesserknown Danish woman, Valborg Hjorth. When Dr...
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The Sikh Empire
12 September 2020Priya Atwal joined me on the pod to discuss the Sikh Empire, which stretched throughout northwestern India into Afghanistan and Tibet. We discuss...
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The Forgotten Ally: Canada
11 September 2020Tim Cook joined me on the pod to discuss how Canadian contributions are frequently overlooked or diminished in discussions of the War. Most major...
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