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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Pilots of the Caribbean
30 August 2020On the outbreak of World War Two, young men from across the Empire volunteered to risk their lives in the fight against Nazi Germany. For this...
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The Bible
30 August 2020John Barton joined me on the pod to discuss the history of the Bible. Tracing its dissemination, translation and interpretation in Judaism and...
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Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay
29 August 2020Jamie L.H. Goodall joined me on the pod to discuss pirates of the Chesapeake Bay. The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land...
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Kingdom of Kush
28 August 2020Along the banks of the River Nile, directly south of ancient Egypt and hundreds of miles away from the Mediterranean, there was a flourishing...
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The Civil Rights Movement
28 August 2020In this episode Dan Snow is joined by Chris Wilson, Director of Experience Design at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History....
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Nationalism
28 August 2020When studying the causes of war we can often be distracted by actions, but in many cases, including the World Wars, a study of the history of ideas...
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The Soviets at Nuremberg
27 August 2020Francine Hirsch joined me on the pod to discuss the full story of the Nuremberg Trials, one in which the Soviet Union was a defining...
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Battle of Arnhem
27 August 2020On the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, Dan Snow was joined by veterans and dignitaries to follow in the footprints of those who took part...
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Cecil Rhodes
26 August 2020Duncan Clarke joined me on the pod to discuss Cecil Rhodes and the historiography of Zambesia from the San forward to the establishment of the...
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Hitler's Death
26 August 2020He is arguably the 20th century's most notorious head of state and the results of his leadership are spread far and wide. But did Hitler shoot...
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How and Why History: The Philosophers of Ancient Greece
25 August 2020From the 6th century BCE, philosophy was used to make sense of the world – including astronomy, mathematics, politics, ethics, metaphysics and...
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The Neanderthals
25 August 2020Rebecca Wragg Sykes joined me on the pod to discuss our perception of the Neanderthals, which has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery...
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Siege of Leningrad
23 August 2020In 1941, Nazi Germany turned on its former ally, the Soviet Union. One of the strategic objectives of this operation, Barbarossa, was to conquer...
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Assassination and Coverups in The Cold War Congo
23 August 2020I was joined by an award-winning investigative journalist, Ravi Somaiya, to discuss the mysterious death in 1961 of UN Secretary-General Dag...
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Battle of Artemisium
23 August 2020Around this time 2,499 years ago the famous Battle of Thermopylae was raging. But it is important to remember that this clash was not happening on...
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Magic and Witchcraft
22 August 2020Suzannah Lipscomb joined me on the pod to discuss the history of magic, witchcraft and the occult. Examining the beliefs and suspicions from the...
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Charles I Reconsidered
21 August 2020On 22nd August 1642, Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham marking the start of the English Civil War. It was the result of years of ongoing...
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1945 Soviet Occupation of Bornholm
21 August 2020In the spring of 1945, the Allies liberated territory from Axis occupation. Whilst the British advanced into most of Denmark, Stalin’s Soviet...
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The Spartans
20 August 2020I was thrilled to be joined by Andrew Bayliss, a Senior Lecturer in Greek History at the University of Birmingham. He's an expert on Sparta and...
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Battle of Thermopylae
20 August 20202,499 years ago the Persian 'Great King' Xerxes launched history's largest amphibious invasion of Europe before D-Day. Accompanied by a huge army...
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Freemasonry
19 August 2020John Dickie joined me on the pod to discuss the international story of an organisation which now has 6 million members across the globe. Tracing...
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