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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Combat Trauma
9 August 2020From the 2000 historical blockbuster 'Gladiator' to the Total War series, brutal hand to hand warfare is something we commonly associate with...
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Nagasaki
9 August 2020The second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki is less well known than the one a few days earlier on Hiroshima, but was it more influential in...
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Refugees, Sexual Violence and the Fall of the Third Reich
8 August 2020In this episode, Dan speaks to award-winning political correspondent and commentator, Svenja O'Donnell, about her remarkable grandmother's...
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Pertinax. Son of a Slave to Emperor of Rome.
7 August 2020The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through...
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How and Why History: America, Japan and the Atomic Bomb
6 August 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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Rum, Sodomy and the Lash?
5 August 2020The common sailor was a crucial engine of British prosperity and expansion up until the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with...
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Hiroshima
5 August 2020On 6 August 1945 a B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped a uranium bomb, nicknamed the 'Little Boy' onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the...
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The Road to 1914: Myths of Nationalism
4 August 2020This week in 1914 saw the outbreak of the First World War. In this special episode from the archive, Margaret MacMillan talks to her nephew Dan...
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Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power
4 August 2020In one of the strangest twists in political history, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party rose from a small provincial agitator into the largest political...
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Aftermath of World War One
3 August 2020In this History Hit live on Timeline Dan Snow was joined by Margaret MacMillan, professor at St Antony's College, Oxford University and author of...
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Gallipoli: the Endgame
3 August 2020In December 1915, some 135,000 allied troops, nearly 400 guns and 15,000 horses were collectively trapped in the bridgeheads at Anzac, Suvla and...
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Conan Doyle, Kipling and Kingsley in the Boer War
2 August 2020In early 1900, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle crossed paths in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. Motivated in various...
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Stone Circles
2 August 2020From Cornwall to Orkney, stone circles are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles. Their history stretches more than 2...
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Leading Germany's Resistance against The Nazis
1 August 2020Norman Ohler joined me on the pod to discuss two remarkable lovers who led Germany's resistance against the Nazis. Harro Schulze-Boysen and...
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The Tudors
31 July 2020Jessie Childs is an award-winning author, historian and expert on the Tudors. She joined me on the podcast to discuss this notorious family. What did...
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The Tragedy of USS Indianapolis
30 July 2020Just after midnight on 30th 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she was struck by two Japanese torpedoes,...
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Rape as a Weapon of War
29 July 2020Christina Lamb is Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times and one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists. As well as working in combat...
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How and Why History: Charlemagne
28 July 2020Charlemagne was one of history’s most ruthless and ambitious warriors – King of the Franks, then King of the Lombards, conqueror of the Saxons,...
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Churchill's Speeches
27 July 2020"Their finest hour", "we shall fight on the beaches", "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". These words of...
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Agrippina the Younger
26 July 2020Agrippina the Younger (AD 15 - 59) was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Born during a time of radical political...
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Saudi Arabia and Iran
26 July 2020Kim Ghattas joined me on the podcast to explore how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran - who were once allies and the twin pillars of US strategy in...
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