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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Fighting Nazism at the Grand Prix
31 May 2020Neal Bascomb joined me on the podcast to tell a remarkable story of the fight against Hitler - on the Grand Prix racetrack. We delved into the...
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A History of Building Britain
30 May 2020I was thrilled to be joined by Andrew Ziminski, a stonemason living and working in Somerset. He's just released his first book documenting the...
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Dunkirk Veterans
29 May 2020Dan meets some of the surviving Dunkirk veterans on the famous Little Ships which helped to rescue them from the beaches. The Little Ships of...
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The Fall of France
28 May 202080 years ago this week, one of the most extraordinary evacuations in military history was under way: 'The Miracle of Dunkirk'. But how, and why,...
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Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk
27 May 2020May 28, 1940: Major Akbar Khan of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps marches at the head of 299 soldiers along the beach at Dunkirk - the only...
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25:49
Coronavirus: Intelligence Failure
26 May 2020The greatest threats we face are climate breakdown and pandemic disease. This was the assessment of security advisers before the Covid outbreak...
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The Miracle of Dunkirk
25 May 202080 years ago, ships were gathering in Kent to begin the rescue of the British Expeditionary Force. Britain faced the prospect of the worst defeat...
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Getting Inside the Mind of Hitler
24 May 2020No man knew Adolf Hitler as intimately as his trusted physician, Theodoor Morell. As part of Hitler's inner social circle, he assisted the leader...
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22:58
Akbar the Great
23 May 2020One of the greatest rulers of the 16th century was Akbar the Great, a man whose power and influence extended over much of the Indian subcontinent...
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34:57
The Shadow King: Henry VI
21 May 2020Henry VI came to the throne in exceptionally difficult circumstances. The untimely death of his warlike father, Henry V, placed the crown upon his...
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35:03
Celebrity
20 May 2020Greg Jenner has given my children so many hours of happiness as the historical brains behind the Horrible History tv shows and movie, not to...
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26:53
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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21:32
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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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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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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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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