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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'Seducing and Killing Nazis'
15 January 2020During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation....
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How History Inspires Environmental Activism
14 January 2020The world faces a unique environmental challenge. The scale of response to this looming catastrophe can be overwhelming. But economist and activist...
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The Commando Raid that Changed the Course of WW2
12 January 2020In October 1942 the British launched a small raid on the Channel Island of Sark. A cast of characters who gave their colleague Ian Fleming ideas for...
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Sam Mendes on 1917
9 January 2020In this podcast Dan talks to Golden Globe winning film maker Sam Mendes about his new World War One film 1917.
Based in part on an account...
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The Persian War
8 January 2020In the 5th century BC the world's first super power, the Persian Empire, went to war against a ragtag collection of cities and statelets on its...
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Interwar Germany’s Secret Ally: The USSR
6 January 2020After the First World War the German Army was in crisis. Limited in the size and its equipment by the Versailles Treaty which ended the war, it...
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Ink: A History of Tattooing
5 January 2020Matt Lodder is the world's leading expert on the history of tattoos. He has found evidence of people using ink or charcoal on their bodies stretching...
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Geordies: A History
3 January 2020'Northumbrian patriot' Dan Jackson, who has just written a book on the history of Northeast England and its people, comes on the podcast to talk...
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The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
1 January 2020Roger Crowley is the author of the new book, Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land.
The city of Acre, powerfully...
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