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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History and Human Nature
19 May 2020It's a belief which has dictated the writings of Machiavelli and Hobbes, Freud and Dawkins - that humans are fundamentally selfish and governed by...
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The Brontës and War
19 May 2020In this podcast I was joined by Emma Butcher, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature at the University of Leicester. Emma took me...
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The Habsburgs
17 May 2020It was an honour to be joined by Martyn Rady to discuss one of history's most thrilling families, the Habsburgs. Ruling for almost a millennium,...
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20:56
Winston Churchill
14 May 202080 years ago this week, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain and his...
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27:07
Pandemics: Science and History
12 May 2020I was thrilled to be joined by the legendary Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and bestselling author of 'The Silk...
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Migration in Medieval Europe
11 May 2020I was delighted to be joined by Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University, London. In a terrific new book, Miri has scooped up a seemingly modern topic...
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27:56
Europe's Tragedy: The Thirty Years War
10 May 2020The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe. It killed nearly a quarter of all Germans and transformed the map of the modern world....
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19:52
Coffee
9 May 2020Coffee. Most of us are addicted. We need it on Monday mornings, post nights out, during nights out, in fact every morning. And...
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23:35
VE Day: 75 Years
8 May 2020For most of us, VE Day conjures up black and white images of carefree servicemen and women dancing and beaming in Trafalgar Square, of Churchill...
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22:46
How should we remember WW2?
7 May 2020The question of wars and how we remember them has always fascinated me. With WW1 we seem to remember the enormous, tragic loss of life - captured...
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28:21
Pandemics through History
5 May 2020I have hooked up with the Timeline Channel on youtube to do History Hit Live three times a week. Sometimes I'll share the audio as a podcast on...
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20:57
Mudlarking
4 May 2020Lara Maiklem has scoured banks of the Thames for over 15 years in pursuit of the objects that the fast moving river water unearths. The Thames is...
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One Family: 200 Years of Continuous Military Service
3 May 2020Paul John Darran joined the army 1980. He was ninth generation of his family to do so. The story begins with his ancestor John Carberry joined the...
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Moscow's Communist Dorm
29 April 2020In 1931, an enormous apartment building was completed in Moscow. Challenging the Kremlin for architectural supremacy on the Moskva River, it...
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Globalisation in 1000 AD
27 April 2020Globalisation. It's a word we often associate with the politics, society and economics of our own lifetimes. But Valerie Hansen, an esteemed...
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Florence Nightingale
26 April 2020For soldiers of the Crimean War, perhaps the greatest adversary they faced was the Selimiye Barracks in Scutari, a makeshift hospital for wounded...
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27:09
Australia, Anzac and History
25 April 2020I was thrilled to have Mat McLachlan on the pod, one of Australia's foremost history presenters and writers. Using his encyclopaedic knowledge of...
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20:35
The Death of Hitler
24 April 2020Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker, or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? There have been innumerable...
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26:08
The Black Death
22 April 2020In this podcast, Dan Snow is joined by Professor Mark Bailey, High Master of St Paul's School, London and Professor of Later Medieval History at...
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A Curious History of Sex
21 April 2020Sex. There's a lot of it about. We talk about war, chaos and atrocities on this podcast a lot although, thankfully, few of us have first hand...
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Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
19 April 2020I was thrilled to be joined by Mark Vincent, an expert in criminal subculture and prisoner society in Stalinist Labour camps. Mark has looked at...
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