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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Kink in the Renaissance
5 March 2024Come with us back to Renaissance England, when writers were playing with ideas of sexuality in interesting ways.
How much of a filth bag was...
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St. Thurstan: York's Rebel Archbishop
5 March 2024One of Medieval England’s most influential figures, Thurstan was the Archbishop of York from 1114 to 1140 who fought attempts by the Archbishop...
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2. Machu Picchu: The Rise of the Inca Empire
5 March 2024Part 2/4. At their most powerful, the Inca had the largest empire in the world. Lasting just one century from the mid-15th century, it stretched...
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38:06
Adventures of a Mughal Princess
4 March 2024In the British Library, there is a manuscript copy of the memoir of Princess Gulbadan, the only surviving female-authored memoir from the Mughal...
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The Wandering Pirate: Nathaniel North
4 March 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones".
Bermuda was at the crossroads between Europe and the...
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Machu Picchu: The 'Lost City'
4 March 2024Part 1/4. Dan takes the podcast to the Peruvian Andes as he follows in the footsteps of intrepid American explorer Hiram Bingham who revealed...
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37:31
The Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave Trade
3 March 2024In July 1860, half a century after the importation of captive slaves was banned under federal law, a ship docked in Alabama carrying around 110...
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45:25
The First Alien Abduction
3 March 2024In 1961 Betty and Barney Hill became the first people ever to be abducted by aliens. Their story of being taken and examined by extraterrestrials...
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Zenobia: Queen of Palmyra
2 March 2024Zenobia, queen of the glittering city state of Palmyra, was a titan of the third century Near-East. By defeating the Persian Sassanid Empire in...
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26:48
Medieval Ireland: Death & Politics
1 March 2024Court records of naked, murderous monks, tavern brawls, robberies gone wrong, tragic accidents and criminal gangs reveal how the English in...
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56:48
History of Sex Work in America
1 March 2024Despite lawmakers best efforts, sex work has been around for since record began...and will certainly go back even further.
We often explore...
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54:58
Lincoln the President
29 February 2024When it comes to US Presidents, it’s not easy to agree on much these days. But one thing that has remained consistent is the man widely...
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40:54
The Paris Morgue's Dark Story
29 February 2024Citizens of Paris in the 19th century could stroll down to the Morgue to try to identify the unknown dead or to gawp at celebrity murder victims....
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29:48
Origins of Fairy Tales
29 February 2024Fairy tales exist everywhere and in every time. Through centuries of oral tradition and the invention of print and later advances in...
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40:12
The Silver Pharaohs
28 February 2024The Silver Pharaohs refers to a lesser-known set of ancient Egyptian rulers of the 21st Dynasty, named for the abundant silver discovered in their...
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29:13
History of Gulags
28 February 2024On the 16th of February, 2024, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service announced that opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died. He had been...
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American History Tellers
27 February 2024The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to...
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33:17
The Real Braveheart
27 February 2024This episode contains strong language, graphic scenes of torture and sexual content
The chances are, when we think of William...
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41:28
Who Really Was Boudica?
27 February 2024She's the warrior queen who took on the mighty Roman Empire, but who really was Boudica?
Separating facts from the myths we've read can be...
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36:24
How to Survive in Tudor England
27 February 2024Life in Tudor England was risky. In addition to the outbreaks of plague, the threat of poverty and the dangers of childbirth, there were...
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Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial
26 February 2024Astronomer Johannes Kepler was an important and admired figure in the scientific revolution of the early 17th century. But when his widowed mother...
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