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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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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Origins of Carthage
22 February 2024Famed as one of Rome’s fiercest enemies, the city of Carthage was one of the jewels of the ancient Mediterranean world. Situated on the coast of...
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Ghosts & Guardian Angels
22 February 2024In Elizabethan and Stuart England, ghosts weren't supposed to exist. Protestant preachers and writers had banished them - but people continued to...
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The Earliest Evidence of Ghosts
22 February 2024The earliest evidence of human belief in ghosts comes from 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Who were these first ghosts? What was the underworld...
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The Sex Life of William 'Braveheart' Wallace
22 February 2024If you've seen the film Braveheart, you might have certain expectations about the real history of William Wallace.
Separating fact from...
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Britain's Secret Expedition to Antarctica
21 February 2024In 1943, just as the Second World War was raging across the globe, the British government launched a top-secret mission to the Antarctic....
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The Real History of Sex Dolls
20 February 2024The origins of the modern sex doll are shrouded in myth.
Some say they came from crafty sailors in the 18th century, a long way from home...
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Sweyn Forkbeard: First Viking King of England
20 February 2024Sweyn Forkbeard was the first Viking King of England, however you'd be forgiven for potentially forgetting who he was given he was only King for...
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Harold Godwinson: The Last Anglo-Saxon King
20 February 2024Dr Eleanor Janega and Matt Lewis uncover the stories of the protagonists and events that led up to the Battle of Hastings. There’s Harold...
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Tulsa Massacre: Violence, Resilience & Rebirth
19 February 2024The city of Tulsa is perhaps best known in history books for the events of 1921. In 36 hours, hundreds of residents of the Greenwood district were...
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The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands
19 February 2024How did Britain's islands become woven into our collective cultural psyche? Traversing Irish poetry, Renaissance drama and Restoration utopias,...
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Freedom Is The Greatest Treasure: Mathurin Desmarestz
19 February 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones.
There are opportunistic pirates and those who have...
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Greek Myths: The Furies
19 February 2024The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece have been written about for thousands of years. From their home atop Mount Olympus, they reigned over the...
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The Real Hannibal Lecter
18 February 2024At the tender age of 23, Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, was sent to interview a convicted murderer inside a Mexican prison....
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The Last Gay Men Executed in Britain
18 February 2024Why was Georgian Britain's penal code so bloodthirsty when it came to homosexuality? Was Britain unusually cruel in this regard? And does this...
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