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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Is the Renaissance a Myth?
25 February 2025Dr. Eleanor Janega reveals the darker side of the Renaissance with Dr. Ada Palmer, challenging the notion that it was a golden age, exposing it as...
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Jamestown: Decline & Fall?
24 February 2025In 1699, Virginia’s government and capital moved from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, renaming it Williamsburg.
But why did they abandon...
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53:24
Final Days of Thomas Cromwell
24 February 2025From ruthless schemer to pragmatic hero - who is the real Thomas Cromwell? And how did he meet his end? Today Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling...
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35:48
How to Run a Stuart Household
24 February 2025Professor Suzannah Lipscomb delves into the world of Stuart-era recipe books, in which medicine, cookery and women's roles combine in fascinating...
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37:40
Mount Hiei: Home of Japan's Warrior Monks
24 February 2025Assassin's Creed Shadows gives players the chance to visit the imperial capital of medieval Japan. But today, we're heading to a mountain lying...
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29:39
Soho: London's Most Notorious Neighbourhood
24 February 2025Soho was once a thriving melting pot of speakeasies, sex work and organised crime. From razor gangs of the 1920s to money laundering, the area has...
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48:41
End of Ice Age Britain
23 February 2025As Ice Age Britain thawed, temperatures surged, sea levels rose, and humans and animals faced a fight for survival. But this shift was anything...
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52:35
Aztecs
21 February 2025Matt Lewis is joined by Professor Camilla Townsend to delve into the story of the Mexica, commonly known as the Aztecs. They unpack the true...
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51:47
Inside Europe's Biggest Red Light District
21 February 2025Between 1860 and 1925, tens of thousands of women worked in Dublin's Monto, the largest red light district in Europe.
It was a world of...
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26:29
Dogs
21 February 2025From the small corgis that drove cattle to Smithfield market to the Dalmatians that protected carriages from highwaymen, humans and dogs have...
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56:23
Jamestown: Surviving The Fort
20 February 2025What was it like to live in the fort at Jamestown? Who was in charge? What provisions were there? And why is this considered to be the birthplace...
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40:08
Giordano Bruno: Mystic, Heretic, Spy
20 February 2025Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake 425 years ago this month. His crime? Radical thinking which clashed with the ideas of the Roman Catholic...
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39:26
Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands
20 February 2025(Part 2/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in...
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What Was Life Like As A Samurai And Shinobi In Medieval Japan?
20 February 2025Chasing Shadows 1. Culture
Assassin's Creed Shadows gives players the chance to experience history as two icons of medieval Japan:...
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58:21
The Persian Wars: Darius, Athens and the Battle of Marathon
20 February 2025490 BC. On the plains of Marathon, Athens faced down a mighty army of the Persian Empire - the superpower of the time It was an underdog clash...
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44:02
Josef Mengele
19 February 2025The Nazi doctor who committed heinous experiments on prisoners of Auschwitz was harboured by a network of Nazi supporters in Argentina after the...
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44:21
Supernatural Medieval Ireland
18 February 2025In early Medieval Ireland, supernatural beings moved in and out of our world, unseen. These were the residents of the Otherworld – the...
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46:09
The Dark History of BMI & Fatphobia
18 February 2025Dark ideas and stigma around different body sizes really took hold in the Enlightenment.
Very unenlightened, if you ask us.
This...
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40:28
Did Vikings Reach the US?
17 February 2025What is a Viking? Did they really make it to the United States? And if so, how far did they get?
Don speaks to Martyn Whittock about the...
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53:19
German Peasants' War
17 February 2025The German Peasants' War - which happened exactly 500 years ago - saw peasants across Germany, Switzerland and Austria rise up against oppressive...
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Hattori Hanzo: The Demon Samurai
17 February 2025In the world of Assassin's Creed Shadows, the legendary Hattori Hanzo embodies both samurai and shinobi warriors, and earned himself the nickname...
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