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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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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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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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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Monarchy
25 July 2020For hundreds of years, monarchy has reigned as the dominant political model in Europe. But how has this system - where political life was shaped...
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SS Great Britain
24 July 2020SS Great Britain was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854, and now resides in Bristol as a museum. She was the brainchild of...
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How Did Hitler Seize Supreme Power?
23 July 2020I was delighted to be joined by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, who took me through the remarkable rise of Adolf Hitler. Starting with his experience of...
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Transforming Our Understanding of The Battle of Kursk
22 July 2020The Battle of Prokhorovka was one of the largest tank battles in military history. Taking place on the Eastern Front, it was fought on 12 July...
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How and Why History: The Genius of Shakespeare
21 July 2020Arguably the world’s greatest ever dramatist, after five and a half centuries William Shakespeare remains as popular as ever. But how did he...
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How Democracy Dies
20 July 2020I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Anne Applebaum. Anne's written extensively on...
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Soldiers and Military History
19 July 2020I am very excited to be joined by Colonel Kevin W. Farrell, who spent over 30 years in uniform and commanded at the platoon, company, and...
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Horse Archery
19 July 2020The horse archer was one of the most feared warriors of antiquity. Triumphing mobility and fluidity, these swift skirmishers came to epitomise a...
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