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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Surviving Hitler and Stalin
9 August 2023Lord Daniel Finkelstein recounts stories from his parents' remarkable lives. His mother Mirjam Wiener survived the Nazi concentration camps, and...
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52:36
Coca Cola: A Backyard Invention
9 August 2023Was Coca Cola originally made with Cocaine? Did Coca Cola invent Santa? Who knows the Coca Cola recipe? Dallas is joined by Bart Elmore, an...
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34:48
Genghis Khan
8 August 2023Genghis Khan roughly translates to 'Universal Ruler', a fitting name for the most famous nomadic conqueror to have ever lived. He was born as...
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41:07
Eleanor of Castile
8 August 2023Eleanor of Castile married King Edward I of England as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony. But the...
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38:08
History of Make-Up
8 August 2023Most of us present ourselves with some form of cosmetic, so it’s strange that historically there’s been so much judgement around the use of...
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30:15
Attila The Hun
7 August 2023Known to the Romans as the 'Scourge of God', Attila the Hun brought chaos to the world around him. He and his armies plundered, pillaged and...
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29:39
The Magna Carta in America
7 August 2023What does a document written in 1215 in England have to do with the United States? The Magna Carta has supposedly influenced foundational...
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52:20
Seymour, Dudley & Parr Families: Forgotten Tudor Women
7 August 2023Seymour, Dudley and Parr are all well-known Tudor names. But often, behind the more famous men in those families, there were women who had a...
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46:26
Tito: President of Yugoslavia
7 August 2023A Yugoslav revolutionary leader, who served in every major conflict of his lifetime - Josip Broz Tito ruled Yugoslavia for 35 years. Successfully...
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56:25
The Great Train Robbery
6 August 2023Did the "heist of the century" really happen the way the robbers say it did? In the summer of 1963, a gang of masked robbers executed a daring...
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35:34
Pompeii: Life Before the Eruption
6 August 2023The ancient city of Pompeii is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries on earth. Frozen in time since 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted,...
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45:04
Fritz Haber: Inventor of Poisonous Gas
6 August 2023Fritz Haber is an undisputed genius and is considered one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th Century. He’s an incredibly complex person,...
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43:53
Eleanor Aquitaine: The Life of a Medieval Badass
4 August 2023You would think that a woman who was queen several times, commanded armies and was possibly the most powerful woman in medieval Europe would need...
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56:21
Rommel: The Desert Fox
4 August 2023Known as the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel was one of Germany's greatest military leaders. Having soared through the ranks after numerous victories...
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39:33
Magna Carta
4 August 2023One of the most important documents ever written, Magna Carta was sealed by King John after negotiations with...
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40:34
President George Washington
3 August 2023He was the victorious Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. As presiding officer of the Constitutional...
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38:50
Cyrus the Great
3 August 2023The ancient Persian ruler who founded the Achaemenid Empire, known for his benevolent governance and conquests - Cyrus the Great was a giant of...
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30:44
The African Samurai
3 August 2023How did an enslaved East African man become Japan’s first foreign samurai, and the only ever samurai of African descent? How did Yasuke catch...
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50:54
Ragnar Lothbrok: Viking Legend
2 August 2023The ninth-century Danish king and warrior Ragnar Lothbrok became notorious again most recently through the TV series The Vikings. But what do we...
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31:44
Inventing Hello Kitty
2 August 2023She’s the most famous cat’s in the world. She’s definitely the most expensive. She’s worth a cool $84.5 Billion. She’s none other than...
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History's Greatest Commanders
1 August 2023In war, leadership matters. Poorly trained or outnumbered armies have often been led to victory by the sheer brilliance of their leaders....
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