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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The Origins of Rome's Empire
22 January 2026396 BC. The city of Veii lies in ruins, destroyed by Rome in a brutal act of early imperial expansion. Yet just six years later, Rome itself would...
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Inside A Medieval Leper Colony
22 January 2026Come back with us to a Medieval leper colony.
What was life really like for patients inside the gates? What did it mean when the 'leper...
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39:41
Girl With a Pearl Earring: Identity Revealed
22 January 2026Could one of art’s greatest mysteries at last be solved? Who was the luminous girl with a pearl earring in Vermeer's iconic painting? ...
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39:54
The Syphilis Explosion of the American Civil War
20 January 2026It's been estimated that between eight and twelve percent of soldiers contracted a venereal disease during the American Civil War. What on earth...
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47:20
The Eleanor Crosses
20 January 2026The death in 1290 of Eleanor of Castile, beloved Queen of King Edward I, sparked one of the grandest gestures of royal mourning in English...
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46:59
America's Greatest General
19 January 2026Eisenhower, Washington, Greene, Grant. There have been thousands of Generals in the United States' Armed Forces. Picking out the best of the crop...
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The Slave Revolt That Birthed A Nation: The Haitian Revolution
19 January 2026Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry reminds us of an often overlooked turning point in history: the Haitian Revolution, when the slaves of Haiti...
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41:20
The Top Assassination Attempts on Hitler
19 January 2026What does it take to kill a dictator? In this episode, we explore the most dramatic assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler. From Georg Elser, the...
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40:19
The Victorian's Dark Obsession with Ancient Egypt
19 January 2026The Victorians had a lot of twisted fascinations, but their fixation on Ancient Egypt might be the darkest of the lot.
From 'mummy...
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47:14
Henry VIII's Reckoning: Pilgrimage of Grace
19 January 2026The Pilgrimage of Grace sounds calm, but was in reality a major uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII’s religious and political...
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50:58
The First Arabians
18 January 2026What can ancient DNA tell us about the first homo sapiens to arrive in Arabia over 50,000 years ago? Tristan Hughes is joined by Prof. Pierre...
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41:32
How Filthy Were Medieval People?
16 January 2026If there's one sure way to irritate an historian of the Medieval period, it's to ask why the people of the Middle Ages didn't wash.
In this...
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47:00
The Origins of Greenland
16 January 2026With Greenland in the news, you may be wondering how and why Greenland became inhabited in the first place. Like all great stories, it is a...
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38:23
The Truth about the Two-Term Limit
15 January 2026The two-term limit, the idea that the President of the United States may not seek a third term, has a long history. Originating from a decision...
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1:07:29
Hamnet
15 January 2026How much do we really know about William Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway, and the family tragedies that may have shaped the bard's greatest...
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1:10:10
A History of Iran
15 January 2026How does Iran's history underpin today's unrest? Dan traces more than 2,500 years of Iran's story — from the first Persian empires through...
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1:10:35
How to Survive on Hadrian’s Wall
15 January 2026Step into the daily lives of those stationed along Hadrian's Wall, from Roman soldiers to civilians. Tristan Hughes and Dr. Francis Macintosh are...
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40:56
The Deadly Arctic Witch Trials
15 January 2026It all started when a huge storm drowned 40 men on Christmas Eve, 1617.
The people of Vardø, northern Norway, needed someone to...
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39:06
Who Was the Victorian Thames Torso Murderer? With Lucy Worsley
13 January 2026For over a century, a series of gruesome murders have gone unsolved. Until now?
The Thames Torso Killer terrified Victorian Londoners by...
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1:02:43
The Sagas of the Earls of Orkney
13 January 2026Sail north with Gone Medieval to Orkney’s storm-lashed islands, where saints, shipwrecks, blood-feuds and tax disputes all unfold in the Sagas...
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America's Most Innovative General
12 January 2026New weapons, new opponents, new technology - as warfare evolves, armies need generals able to evolve with it. In this episode, Don is joined by...
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