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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Tudor Origins of the Condom
7 June 2024What were condoms like in Tudor times? Before you were able to pop to the supermarket to pick some up, where did people buy them?
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The Anarchy: Disruptive Women
7 June 2024The Anarchy is an intriguing and often forgotten period of history. There are fascinating characters and moments of deep political importance...
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Inside North Korea
6 June 2024With closed borders, a totalitarian regime, electricity blackouts and widespread poverty, North Korea is a brutal place to survive; even...
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Pegasus Bridge: The First Assault of D-Day
6 June 2024Just after midnight on the 6th of June, 1944, 181 British glider-borne infantry crashed to earth in the Normandy countryside. They clambered out...
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D-Day: The Deception that Made it Possible
6 June 2024Please note that this episode contains explicit language.
On the 29th of May, 1944, less than a week before D-Day, General George S. Patton...
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D-Day: The Land Invasion
6 June 2024Dan and military historian Stephen Fischer record a moment by moment play of the dramatic and bloody first crucial hour and a half of D-day, as it...
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D-Day: The Air Invasion
6 June 2024In the second episode of our D-Day series, we look to the skies. In the build-up to Operation Overlord, thousands of Allied pilots in heavy...
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D-Day: The Sea Invasion
6 June 2024This is the often forgotten chapter of the D-Day story.
To begin our series for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we turn to the...
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America at D-Day
6 June 2024On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces combined their land, air and sea forces into the largest amphibious invasion in history - D-Day.
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A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen
6 June 2024This episode solves the 400-year old mystery of a previously unknown portrait of a young woman, dressed to look just like Queen Elizabeth...
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The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine
6 June 2024On Christmas night 1843 a mother and child were found murdered inside their burned out home. Suspicion fell on one Polly Bodine. Over the next...
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Noah's Ark and the Flood
5 June 2024The Ancients launches a new miniseries exploring the stories, people, objects and kingdoms central to the Old Testament's narrative.
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Las Vegas & Atomic Tourism
4 June 2024In the 1950s, the US government conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests in the Mojave desert, right next door to Las Vegas. Tourists flocked to...
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Fantastic Beasts of the Middle Ages
4 June 2024In the Middle Ages, animals were often the means for survival and the source of great wealth. No wonder then that in the medieval...
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Incest in Ancient Rome
4 June 2024What's the worst thing you could accuse someone of in Ancient Rome? There are a few strong candidates, but incest is definitely up there.
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Julius Caesar's Sex Life
3 June 2024"I came. I saw. I conquered".
Perhaps the most famous Julius Caesar quote of all time. But after hearing all about his bedroom antics, it...
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Six Wives: Anne Boleyn
3 June 2024Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases,...
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The Real Mutiny on the Bounty: Revenge in Paradise (Part 2)
3 June 2024Mutineers, manhunts, uninhabited tropical islands and...SHIPWRECKS! The second part of the story of the Mutiny of the Bounty is even wilder than...
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Communism in America
2 June 2024The history of the United States' relationship with communism is one littered with fear and persecution. So where did the American Communist Party...
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The Fall of Mark Antony: From Caesar to Cleopatra
2 June 2024After the death of his patron Julius Caesar, the Roman world was Mark Antony’s for the taking. His triumph over Caesar’s assassins at Phillipi...
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The REAL Bridgerton: Georgian Drugs & Alcohol
31 May 2024The third season of Bridgerton is out and we are back in sexy scandalous Georgian society. But while we watch, we're taking a step back to ask:...
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