History Hit Podcasts

The REAL Bridgerton: Historians React To Season 3

*SPOILER ALERT: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DETAILS OF SEASON 3 OF BRIDGERTON*

With the second part of season 3 of Bridgerton dropping on Netflix...

Pope Joan: Sacred Scandal

Out of the shadowy world of the medieval church, an extraordinary legend emerged of a woman who disguised herself as a man and remarkably, rose to...

Dan's History Heroes: Britain's Greatest Soldier, Part 1

This is the story of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Britain's most extraordinary soldier. The one-handed, one-eyed, walking stick-wielding war hero...

Presidential Pardons: Mormons, Conscientious Objectors & January 6th

In the US Constitution, the President of the United States is granted the right to pardon those convicted of federal crimes.

But how do they...

Six Wives: Anne of Cleves

Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most...

The ‘Genius’ Killer

The so-called 'Genius' Killer was a murderer who seemed to be both philosopher and psychopath, whose brain was one of the largest ever recorded....

Kyoto: Japan's Imperial City

During the Onin Wars of the early Sengoku period, Kyoto was razed as civil war struck the Imperial capital. Only with unification did the city...

Origins of the Celts

The Celts are an ancient people shrouded in mystery and intrigue. In the minds of most people the word ‘Celt’ refers to the people of Iron Age...

The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan

With a sinister hierarchy of "grand wizards" and "dragons," hooded Klansmen concealed their identities as they unleashed a reign of terror on...

Tudor Lesbians

Throughout history, it's mostly been queer men who were persecuted under the historical sodomy laws, but the Tudor period saw a spike in women...

Rise of the Crusader States

The Crusader states in the Near East were created after the First Crusade in order to keep hold of the territorial gains made by those known in...

President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?

They say that honesty is the best policy, but was this the case for Grover Cleveland? He may be the only president to have served two...

Prison Hulks: Floating Hells for Convicts

Convicts, illegal dissections, disease, all taking place on ships described as "Wicked Noah's Arks" where conditions were even worse than in...

Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe

Among the male players who performed thousands of new plays in the Elizabethan repertory, the most famous were Richard Burbage and Will Kempe,...

Civil War Rivals: Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses Grant

100 years ago, in the spring of 1864, the Overland Campaign ignited a ferocious clash between two titans of US military history: Ulysses S. Grant,...

Moses & The Exodus

The story of Moses and the Exodus is one of the oldest and most well known in history. It is full of instantly recognisable episodes like the...

The Early Years of the British Empire

The British weren't always imperial global players with an empire of viceroys, redcoats and industrialised trade systems. The early years of the...

The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots had a life that resembled a Game of Thrones plot: she had awful taste in men, and a cousin in Queen Elizabeth I of England,...

Edward the Confessor

One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to...

The Challenger Disaster

On January 28, 1986, the nation watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew...

Samurai vs Shinobi: The Tensho Iga War

In the sixth episode delving into the history behind the latest Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Matt Lewis and Nathan...