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 Kingdom of Mercia
2 January 2026Once the powerhouse of the Anglo-Saxon world, the kingdom of Mercia dominated not just Wessex but nearly all its neighbouring realms. At its...
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How Dangerous Was The Oregon Trail?
1 January 2026From the 1830s until the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, hundreds of thousands of people packed their possessions into wagons and headed...
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The First Life on Earth
1 January 2026Today we’re going back to the beginning – no Romans, Celts, Egyptians or Macedonians in sight. Billions of years of prehistory as we look at...
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The Truth About the Conjuring's Ghost Hunters
1 January 2026Ghost hunting couple Ed and Lorraine Warren transformed twentieth century America into an enchanted land dotted with haunted houses, cursed...
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How Did Ancient Romans become Christians?
1 January 2026Around 50 CE, a small group of travellers began to preach that a Jewish man, crucified by the Romans, had risen from the dead. Teaching love,...
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Enchanted Realms: Fairies in the 16th Century
1 January 2026In the early modern period, belief in fairies was quite commonplace. But put all thoughts of Tinkerbell aside! Professor Suzannah...
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How Sexy Was Shakespeare?
30 December 2025There's a bit of interest around Shakespeare at the minute - can we call this the Paul Mescal effect?
The Bard’s work featured many...
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Medieval Europe's Most Evil Monarch
30 December 2025Who was the worst Medieval monarch?
Dr. Eleanor Janega teams up with the hosts of our sister podcast After Dark to delve into the lives of...
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How Much Power Does the President Have?
29 December 2025Ever since independence, a question has hovered over the government of the United States. How much power should the President have? Not too much,...
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What was the Hanseatic League?
29 December 2025The Hanseatic League was a medieval trading network that stretched across Northern Europe. Formed in Northern Germany in the 12th century, it was...
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The First Europeans In Japan
29 December 2025When Portuguese merchants ran aground on the Japanese isle of Tanegashima in 1543, two worlds collided - Europeans encountered Japan for the first...
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The Secrets Hidden In Tudor Art
29 December 2025Why are diamonds black, and how does a triangle show power in Tudor portraits? From Henry VII’s shrewd statecraft to the glittering reign of...
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Banshees: Herald of Death
29 December 2025Today we're delving back into the After Dark vaults to revisit our episode on Banshees...
Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) joins Anthony...
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The Ice Age
28 December 2025Think of the Ice Age and tales of ferocious sabre-toothed tigers and giant megafauna likely spring to mind - but what do we know about prehistoric...
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Assassins and Templars
26 December 2025The heart of the Assassin’s Creed franchise is the deadly rivalry between the brotherhoods of Assassins and Templars. These were real groups in...
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How Hot Was Lord Byron?
26 December 2025How 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' was Lord Byron really?
We know the Romantic poet had a bit of a reputation, but how true was it? And...
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How Did Fossils Change America?
25 December 2025When fossils were discovered in the US during the 19th Century, it altered American understandings of science, religion, race and more. So what...
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Princes in the Tower
25 December 2025The unsolved mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower - Edward V and Richard, Duke of York - is possibly English history’s greatest...
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How Did the British Empire Build the Modern World?
25 December 2025Tobacco, sugar, rum, cotton, rubber, tea, coffee, spices, industry, borders, slavery, war - all things spread across the globe thanks to the...
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Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace
25 December 2025We’re re-running this episode because it’s one of our favourites — and it’s worth another listen!
The ghost of Catherine Howard,...
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The Minoan Labyrinth
25 December 2025Assassin’s Creed Odyssey immerses players in the mythology of Ancient Greece. In particular, they can walk in the footsteps of Theseus through...
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