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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Marooned Captain: Edward England
26 February 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones".
Who said all pirates were cruel and bloodthirsty?...
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Atatürk: Fall of the Ottoman Empire
26 February 2024On the 19th of May, 1919, an Ottoman general stepped ashore at the Black Sea port city of Samsun. This marked the beginning of the Turkish War of...
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The Truth about the American Dream: The Baldwin-Buckley Debate
25 February 2024On February 18th, 1965, the University of Cambridge hosted one of the most legendary debates in history. Author James Baldwin and conservative...
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Do Mermaids Exist? Historical Sightings & Myths
25 February 2024Did you know Benjamin Franklin began his career reporting mermaid sightings? Or that there's a mermaid on every cup of Starbucks...
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Roman Special Forces
25 February 2024The Romans were renowned for their military prowess and skill. Their legions successfully conquered vast swathes of the Mediterranean world, led...
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Abraham Lincoln
25 February 2024Abraham Lincoln began his life in a log cabin in Kentucky, the son of poor pioneers. He would end it as President of the United States, having...
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How to Cook Like a Medieval Chef
23 February 2024Preparing, serving and sharing food has always played a critical role in human history. But what did people in the Middle Ages like to eat and...
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D.B. Cooper & the 70s Hijacking Craze
22 February 2024On 23 June 1972, a man boarded American Airlines Flight 119 in St Louis. He sat most of the way to Tulsa before donning a wig and a pair of gloves...
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