History Hit Podcasts
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How and Why History: Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages
18 August 2020In the Middle Ages, the Holy Land, as well as sites in Europe and around Britain became popular sites for pilgrimage. It was believed that praying...
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Stealing from the Saracens: Islam and European Architecture
17 August 2020From Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses of Parliament, European architecture is indebted to the Muslim world. Diana Darke joined me on the pod to...
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Britain in The Great War
16 August 2020I was thrilled to be joined by Simon Heffer, author of biographies on the historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle, the composer Ralph Vaughan...
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War Elephants
16 August 2020Move over Hannibal. More over Carthage. This podcast is all about a much BIGGER elephant power in antiquity. A power that, at its height,...
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VJ Day: 75 Years
15 August 202075 years ago today, on 15 August 1945, Victory over Japan Day marked the end of one of the most devastating episodes in British military history,...
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Women Scientists in WW1
14 August 2020In considerations of the First World War, the roles of female scientists in supporting the war effort have been shockingly under acknowledged. Dan...
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Chinese Philosophy
14 August 2020Michael Puett is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard and has lectured widely at the world's leading universities. His course in Chinese...
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The Korean War: An American Perspective
13 August 2020I was thrilled to be joined by H. W. Brands. He's authored 30 books on American history and his works have twice been selected as finalists for...
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59:23
'Killing for the Roman Republic'
13 August 2020In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek city of Tarentum against a rising power based in...
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Vindolanda
12 August 2020Dan finds out what's going on with recent excavations at Vindolanda, one of the largest Roman forts near Hadrian's Wall. All manner of discoveries...
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How and Why History: Europe's Witch Craze
11 August 2020In 1597, King James VI of Scotland published a compendium on witchcraft called Daemonologie that laid down the kind of trial and...
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African Experiences in WW1
11 August 2020The First World War is most commonly portrayed using records of young white Europeans, silencing the stories of the 4 million non-white non-Europeans...
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32:37
The Origins of WW1
11 August 2020The First World War is one of the great turning points of the last couple of centuries. Debates surrounding its origins, however, remain endless. In...
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History's Documents
10 August 2020In this pod I was joined by two people who have played quite an important part in my life: my mum and dad (known to the rest of the world as Peter...
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Combat Trauma
9 August 2020From the 2000 historical blockbuster 'Gladiator' to the Total War series, brutal hand to hand warfare is something we commonly associate with...
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Nagasaki
9 August 2020The second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki is less well known than the one a few days earlier on Hiroshima, but was it more influential in...
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Refugees, Sexual Violence and the Fall of the Third Reich
8 August 2020In this episode, Dan speaks to award-winning political correspondent and commentator, Svenja O'Donnell, about her remarkable grandmother's...
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Pertinax. Son of a Slave to Emperor of Rome.
7 August 2020The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through...
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How and Why History: America, Japan and the Atomic Bomb
6 August 2020On 6 August 1945, an American B29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was at the...
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Rum, Sodomy and the Lash?
5 August 2020The common sailor was a crucial engine of British prosperity and expansion up until the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with...
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Hiroshima
5 August 2020On 6 August 1945 a B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped a uranium bomb, nicknamed the 'Little Boy' onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the...
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