History Podcasts
The History Hit network gives you access to a growing range of podcasts presented by and featuring historians at the forefront of research and debate.
Scroll down to listen to the most recent episodes from our network.
Dan Snow’s History Hit explores the deep history behind today’s headlines – giving you the context to understand what is going on today. Everything has a history, every challenge made easier by understanding its nature, its genesis. In a world of fast opinions, we put historians into the debate, women and men who bring real knowledge built over careers spent researching.
The Ancients, hosted by historian Tristan Hughes, is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Historians and archaeologists join Tristan to discuss specific themes from antiquity, from Neolithic Britain to the Fall of Rome.
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb presents Not Just the Tudors. Together with expert interviewees, she covers the sweeping range of the early modern period: everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower.
Gone Medieval is hosted by historians Matt Lewis and Eleanor Janega, who shine a light on one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood periods of history: the Middle Ages. In each episode, experts lead listeners beneath the skin of captivating stories to uncover new insights.
In Betwixt the Sheets join historian, Kate Lister as she unashamedly roots around the topics which seem to have been skipped in history class. Everything from landmark LGBTQ+ court cases, to political scandal, to downright bizarre medieval cures for impotence.
In American History Hit, join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today. We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powhatan as he prepares for war with the British, see Walt Disney accuse his former colleagues of being communists, and uncover the dark history that lies beneath Central Park.
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal joined History Hit’s award-winning podcast network in October 2023, hosted by actor, writer and historian Anthony Delaney and writer, broadcaster, historian Maddy Pelling. Together, the duo unpick history’s spookiest, strangest and most sinister stories – from the disappearance of HMS Terror to the origins of Halloween.
War historian and broadcaster James Rogers hosts our Warfare podcast, which opens up fascinating new perspectives on how conflict has shaped and changed our world. James teams up with fellow historians, veterans, and experts to reveal astonishing new histories of inspirational leadership, breakthrough technologies, and era defining battles.
Patented, hosted by Dallas Campbell, dives into stories of flukey discoveries, erased individuals and murky marketing ploys with the help of experts, scientists and historians.
Click on any of the listings below to listen to the most recent episodes from our network.
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The Death of Alexander the Great: Explained
12 June 2022Alexander the Great’s untimely death at Babylon in 323 BC triggered an unprecedented crisis across his continent-spanning empire.
Within a...
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Plastic Surgery
12 June 2022As a result of all the military and medical advancements of World War One there were more seriously injured and disfigured soldiers surviving the...
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The Wars of the Roses: The Uncrowned Queen
11 June 2022Matt Lewis concludes his series on the Wars of the Roses with a look at a figure who is often divisive and misunderstood, despised or loved, but...
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Disaster Before D-Day: Exercise Tiger
10 June 2022The D-Day landings of June 6 1944 were the largest amphibious landing in the history of warfare, and are famed as a major turning point towards...
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BDSM
10 June 2022BDSM...It was around before Christian Grey you know.
As long humans have existed, there have been kinky humans in the bedroom, enjoying...
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Discovered! A Royal Navy Shipwreck
9 June 2022The wreck of one of the most famous ships of the 17th century - which sank 340 years ago while carrying the future King of England James Stuart -...
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The Queen Who Was Crowned King
9 June 2022Not Just the Tudors’ month-long season on Queenship continues with a look at the fascinating Christina Varsa, who was crowned King of Sweden on...
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The Origins of Clothing
9 June 2022Clothing has been essential for human evolution. From protection against changing climate, through to the driving force behind technological...
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Moving to the Country with Danny Wallace
9 June 2022Many of us have reevaluated the importance of green spaces after pandemic lockdowns.
Author and and broadcaster Danny Wallace moved from...
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Falklands40: Memories of an Argentine Veteran
8 June 2022Please note that this episode contains descriptions of conflict and torture that some may find distressing.
When the British arrived on the...
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Daylight Saving Time
8 June 2022Introduced just over 100 years ago, Daylight Savings have always been divisive.
So, why are people for and why are people against — and...
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The Battle of Midway
7 June 2022On the 4th of June 1942, the US Navy took on the might of Japan's Imperial Navy in the battle of Midway. It was America's Trafalgar! At the end of...
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Judith, England’s First Crowned Queen
7 June 2022When HM The Queen was crowned in 1953, her Coronation ceremony contained some subtle nods to another Queen who made history 1100 years earlier....
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Sarah Baartman: A Life On Show
7 June 2022Who was Sarah Baartman? Why was she paraded across Europe as part of a 'freak' show? And why did it take until 2001 for her remains to be...
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D-Day Heroes: The Green Howards
6 June 2022There was only one Victoria Cross awarded on the 6th June 1944, D-Day. It went to Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis of the 6th Battalion of...
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D-Day Heroes: The Green Howards
6 June 2022There was only one Victoria Cross awarded on the 6th June 1944, D-Day. It went to Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis of the 6th Battalion of...
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Tudor England's Foreign Queens
6 June 2022Not Just the Tudors’ special month-long look at Queenship continues with an exploration of the popular perception of those foreign Queens who...
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The Veteran Searching for his D-Day Shipwreck
5 June 2022On June 6, 1944, D-Day, Patrick Thomas, a young Royal Navy telegraphist, boarded the craft in Portsmouth. The boat was part of the first wave on...
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Roman Treasures of Iron Age Scotland
5 June 2022In 1919, excavators working near Edinburgh in Scotland unearthed the largest hoard of Roman hacksilver ever found. The trove, containing mostly...
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Coronation Chicken
5 June 2022Chicken, mayonnaise, curry powder - and wait, sultanas? What exactly is Coronation Chicken and what does it have to do with Her Majesty Queen...
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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
4 June 2022To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Matt Lewis revisits the fascinating story of Empress Matilda who came within a hair’s breadth of...
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