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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A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
14 November 2024This is the story of America's longest held prisoner of war. John 'Jack' Downey, an American CIA operative, was imprisoned by the Chinese for 21...
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Witchfinder General
14 November 2024In the aftermath of the Civil War, a remote corner of Essex witnessed the most brutally devastating witch-hunt in English history. A dangerous...
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Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death
14 November 2024Queen Victoria was synonymous with grief and the Victorian cult of death. Yet her own funeral wasn't that at all. Today Dan O'Brien explains to...
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Caracalla & Geta: The Real Emperors of Gladiator II
14 November 2024The new Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator II features two of Rome's most villainous emperors - the brothers Caracalla and Geta.
And in today's...
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Gladiators: Myths vs Reality
13 November 2024Join Dan at Rome's Colosseum as he separates fact from fiction in the world of the gladiators. He traces the origins of gladiatorial fighting from...
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El Cid: Spain's Medieval Mercenary
12 November 2024Rodrigo Díaz - known as el Cid - lived a violently colourful life in 11th Century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal...
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Gladiators' Sex Lives
12 November 2024Who really were the gladiators of Ancient Rome?
With them once again hitting the big screens this month, we wanted to take you back a couple...
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Gladiators: The Colosseum
11 November 2024Join Dan on an adventure in Rome as he traces the true history of the gladiators. He begins his story in 64 AD with the great fire of Rome that...
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Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
11 November 2024In this dramatic episode, Dan tells the incredible story of how Shackleton saved every single man on the fated Endurance expedition from perishing...
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Nazis in America: Fascism in the 1930s
11 November 2024In 1933, The Pittsburgh Courier published an editorial entitled 'Hitler Learns from America'. So how and why was fascism on the rise in the...
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Invisible Activists of the Reformation
11 November 2024The names that spring first to mind in the Reformation of Christianity tend always to be male. But women were central to these extraordinary...
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The Borgias: History's Most Villainous Family
11 November 2024The Borgias are a lynchpin in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Their tale of intrigue, corruption and cut-throat ambition still inspires...
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Final Days of Captain Cook
11 November 2024The violent death of Captain James Cook, British explorer, on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 has become the stuff of legend. Should we believe the story...
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The Minotaur
10 November 2024Half man and half bull, the Minotaur is one of the most famous, and scariest, monsters of Greek mythology.
The story goes that it was...
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The Battle of Agincourt
8 November 2024Join Matt Lewis and Professor Michael Livingston to unravel the legendary Battle of Agincourt.
They cover the lesser-known strategic...
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The Real Sylvia Plath
8 November 2024** TW: This episode contains themes of suicide **
Sylvia Plath was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
During and...
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Presidents' Private Lives
7 November 2024With the US election happening, we wanted to take a look back at the presidents from the past what we know about their sex lives.
Which...
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Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace
7 November 2024The ghost of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, screaming down a corridor. A nursemaid's spinning wheel clicking in the walls. Robed...
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The Witch
7 November 2024Join Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Professor Ronald Hutton as they explore the evolving definitions of witches, the global spread of witch...
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The Ancient Amazon
7 November 2024Today, we often see the Amazon basin as an endless expanse of trees and rainforest. But 2,000 years ago, at the same time that great cities like...
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The Clinton Body Count to the QAnon Shaman: Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
6 November 2024From the Clinton 'crime family' to businessman JP Morgan sinking the Titanic to kill off his rivals, conspiracy theories are rife on the internet....
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