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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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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18:36
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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20:40
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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20:12
Working Motherhood
16 April 2020Dr Helen McCarthy, lecturer in modern British history at the University of Cambridge, joins Dan to discuss the complicated past of working...
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28:54
The Aftermath of WW1
15 April 2020In this podcast I was joined by Margaret MacMillan, professor at St Antony's College, Oxford University and author of 'Peacemakers: The Paris...
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20:28
British Ship Building
14 April 2020In this episode, Dan chats to British naval historian and maritime artist, Richard Endsor, about seventeenth century ship building. It was the...
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27:15
Apollo 13
13 April 2020I was joined by Kevin Fong, who took me through one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of exploration. Apollo 13 was the seventh...
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26:04
The House of Byron
12 April 2020Emily Brand has written a brilliant book about the Byrons. Not just the great romantic, poet and adventurer, George Gordon Byron, but his...
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19:15
The Prime Minister Hospitalised: Lloyd George's Influenza
10 April 2020In September 1918 David Lloyd George, the charismatic wartime Prime Minister, visited the city of Manchester, attended a vast public gathering and...
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34:14
How Pandemics Made the Modern World
9 April 2020Professor Frank Snowden is currently on lockdown in Rome, experiencing at first hand life in a pandemic. For years he has written about the great...
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26:20
Loot? Spoils? Artefacts? What to Do with Our Museums
8 April 2020Our museums are full of stuff taken, bought, stolen and gifted from foreign countries. It feels like we face a reckoning. What shall we do with...
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17:29
Death by Shakespeare
6 April 2020Poison, swordplay and bloodshed. Shakespeare’s characters met their ends in a plethora of gruesome ways. But how realistic were they? And did...
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27:26
The Battle of Okinawa
3 April 2020The last great battle of the Second World War was fought on the island of Okinawa. After 83 blood-soaked days, almost a quarter of a million...
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18:20
Origins of the Spanish Flu
2 April 2020This episode features military historian Douglas Gill who has extensively researched the origins of the Spanish Influenza as it emerged in 1915...
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17:17
Valkyrie: The Warrior Women of the Viking World
1 April 2020I was thrilled to have Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir on the pod. We talked about Viking women, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and...
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35:47
Battle of Britain 'What Ifs'
30 March 2020Dr. Jamie Wood and Professor Niall Mackay at the University of York are mathematicians who love history. Sensible dudes. They released a paper...
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29:07
A Strange Bit of History
29 March 2020We were delighted to have comedy royalty on the podcast. Omid Djalili talked to me about one of his earliest stage creations, first performed at...
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32:13
How AI is Safeguarding Maritime Heritage
26 March 2020There are more historic artefacts on our ocean floor than there are in every museum in the world put together. Over thousands of years ships...
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24:58
The Real Thomas Cromwell
25 March 2020Everyone is Thomas Cromwell obsessed at the moment. The man who rose to be the most powerful member of Henry VIII's court, his Lord Privy Seal,...
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