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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Origins of Free Speech
24 November 2025Free speech is today more contested than ever before. In many places, differing views about politics, sex, and religion are suppressed and...
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John F. Kennedy: Myths vs Reality
24 November 2025John F. Kennedy was a man of charm, power, and contradictions. Behind the public image of the heroic president lay a figure plagued by pain,...
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The Incense Route Through Arabia
24 November 2025Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory takes our hero Basim ibn Ishaq from the glory of Baghdad in the Abbasid era to the remote oasis at...
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Emperor Tiberius: Monster or Misunderstood?
23 November 2025*WARNING: This podcast contains adult themes and discussion of paedophilia*
A brilliant general. A brooding autocrat. A recluse surrounded...
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Did Henry VIII Have An Affair With Anne Boleyn's Sister?
21 November 2025She was 'the Other Boleyn Girl' - Anne's sister, Mary, who supposedly had an affair with King Henry VIII. Such drama!
What evidence is there...
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Scotland's Stone of Scone
21 November 2025How did a medieval Scottish stone become the centre of a daring heist in the 1950's?
This is the extraordinary saga of the Stone of Scone,...
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What was the Satanic Panic?
20 November 2025Why were more than 12 thousand cases of satanic abuse brought in the 1980s? Was the Prince of Darkness walking among us then? Or did something...
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Zoroastrianism
20 November 2025A faith born in the distant prehistoric past, rooted in ancient Iranian texts over 4,000 years old, Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest...
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Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
20 November 2025What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke?
In the 1580s Sir Walter Raleigh set about establishing a permanent English colony on Roanoke...
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The Spanish Armada
20 November 2025In 1588, Spain’s mighty armada sailed to invade England and change the balance of power in Europe. Dan explains why Philip II launched the...
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Could you Survive the Medieval Apocalypse?
20 November 2025For Medieval Europe, the Apocalypse wasn’t just a metaphor - it was very real and very imminent.
We are talking about the four horsemen,...
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The Truth About Roald Dahl
18 November 2025The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda. Roald Dahl wrote some of the world's most loved children's books.
But what do we know...
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How the Wind Blew Up The Middle Ages
18 November 2025From the tactical nautical decisions of the Normans and Vikings to medieval monks' meticulous wind records, medieval civilisations have always...
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What if the Texas Republic survived?
17 November 2025In 1845, the Republic of Texas stood at a crossroads. In our history, they chose to join the USA… but what if they chose another path? Was this...
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Nuremberg: The Trial of Göring
17 November 2025Warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide.
When the Nuremberg Trials began in November 1945, Hermann Göring was the...
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The Nabataeans
17 November 2025Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory takes players to the haunting tomb city of Hegra, a remarkable memento of the Nabataeans. Hewn from the...
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Tudor True Crime: Who Murdered Lord Darnley?
17 November 2025**Contains accounts of murder and sexual violence**
After an explosion rocked Edinburgh in February 1567, Lord Darnley - husband to Mary,...
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Why Did Henry VIII Kill Catherine Howard?
17 November 2025In 1540 Henry VIII was getting old, and his eyes turned to teenager Catherine Howard.
He fell hard and fast for Catherine - his "rose...
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Decline & Fall of the Ancient World
16 November 2025Tristan Hughes invites Matt Lewis, host The Ancients's sister podcast Gone Medieval, for a lively debate with about the blurred boundary between...
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The Birth of the Medieval World
14 November 2025Matt Lewis pays a visit to Gone Medieval's sister podcast The Ancients for a lively debate with Tristan Hughes about the blurred boundary between...
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Sex and Scandal of Medieval Royals
14 November 2025What did Queen Isabella of France do to deserve the nickname She-Wolf? What sex scandals happened in the 14th century? And why did the Black Death...
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