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Dan Snow's History Hit

Historian Dan Snow journeys across the globe to tell the stories of history's defining moments. From the Colosseum in Rome to the Great Wall of China, the battlefields of Waterloo to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, join Dan as he explores the how and why of the greatest monuments, battles, heroes, villains and events that have shaped our world.New episodes on Mondays and Thursdays with bonus subscriber only episodes every other Friday.You can get in touch with us at [email protected] podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts The Ancients...

The Hundred Years' War

39 mins; December 02, 2021

Discovered! Rare Celtic Coins in the New Forest

32 mins; December 01, 2021

Ridley Scott on Gucci, Gladiator and the Blitz

21 mins; November 30, 2021

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Churchill's Birthday

42 mins; November 29, 2021

Winston Churchill

39 mins; November 28, 2021

The Complicated Legacy of F W de Klerk

28 mins; November 27, 2021

The Rise of the Praetorian Guard

64 hours 57 mins; November 25, 2021

The British Spy who Saved Jews from Hitler

27 mins; November 24, 2021

From the Punjab to the Western Front

23 mins; November 23, 2021

The British Monarchy

34 mins; November 22, 2021

The Assassination of JFK: Explained

29 mins; November 21, 2021

Greg Jenner: Ask a Historian

34 mins; November 20, 2021

Searching for the Lost of World War One

34 mins; November 18, 2021

The Magic Circle & Hoaxes in History

27 mins; November 17, 2021

When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain

34 mins; November 16, 2021

We Didn't Start the Fire: Dien Bien Phu

36 mins; November 15, 2021

Our Love Affair with History

26 mins; November 14, 2021

Stories of War with Max Hastings

32 mins; November 13, 2021

How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen

59 mins; November 11, 2021

WW1 and its Aftermath with Sebastian Faulks

24 mins; November 10, 2021

Did Immigration Really Cause the Fall of Rome?

39 mins; November 09, 2021

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

53 mins; November 08, 2021

Colonel Gaddafi and Libya

32 mins; November 07, 2021

Bar Kokhba: Hadrian's Worst Nightmare

40 mins; November 06, 2021

The Gunpowder Plot

44 mins; November 04, 2021

The Vikings Who Beat Columbus to America

23 mins; November 03, 2021

WWII's Battle for London

34 mins; November 02, 2021

The History of Money

30 mins; November 01, 2021

Why We're Wrong About George III

37 mins; October 31, 2021

Ghost Stories: The History

25 mins; October 30, 2021

The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great

55 mins; October 28, 2021

The Truth About Hollywood Cowboys

22 mins; October 27, 2021

Tank Standoff at Checkpoint Charlie

24 mins; October 26, 2021

Richard III vs Henry VII

36 mins; October 25, 2021

Sharpe is Back! Bernard Cornwell

24 mins; October 24, 2021

Tuskegee Airmen: A WW2 Pilot's Story

44 mins; October 23, 2021

Britain's Overlooked Hero: From the Trenches to the Blitz

19 mins; October 21, 2021

The Battle of Trafalgar

67 hours 5 mins; October 20, 2021

How Brutish Were Our Ancestors?

42 mins; October 19, 2021

How Alcohol Built the British Empire

30 mins; October 18, 2021

Dresden Survivor: Remembering Victor Gregg

23 mins; October 17, 2021

Operation Barbarossa: The Lost Diaries

27 mins; October 16, 2021

The Haitian Revolution

33 mins; October 14, 2021

The Battle of Hastings

55 mins; October 13, 2021

Lady Jane Grey

50 mins; October 12, 2021

Maurice Hilleman: Vaccine Creator

21 mins; October 11, 2021

Jack the Ripper Retold

27 mins; October 10, 2021

Operation Jubilee: Disaster at Dieppe

26 mins; October 09, 2021

Gangsters, Pimps & Prostitutes: London's West End

26 mins; October 07, 2021

Al Qaeda

46 mins; October 06, 2021

Britain and the Slave Trade

25 mins; October 05, 2021

The Winter of Discontent

26 mins; October 04, 2021

William Wallace

42 mins; October 03, 2021

James Holland on The Sherwood Rangers: Legendary Tank Regiment

39 mins; October 02, 2021

Æthelred the Unready

36 mins; September 30, 2021

Bond, The Secret Service & Exporting Britain's Influence

24 mins; September 29, 2021

James Bond

25 mins; September 28, 2021

The Last Witches of England

32 mins; September 27, 2021

Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Shackleton

46 mins; September 26, 2021

Duke of Windsor: The Nazi King?

23 mins; September 25, 2021

The Rise of Hannibal

65 hours 57 mins; September 23, 2021

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

26 mins; September 22, 2021

A History of Sex for Sale

32 mins; September 21, 2021

History of the Taliban

24 mins; September 20, 2021

Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard

51 mins; September 19, 2021

The Harlem Hellfighters of World War One

25 mins; September 18, 2021

The Frontiers of Science & History with A.C. Grayling

26 mins; September 17, 2021

Henry VIII's Break with Rome

30 mins; September 16, 2021

Hunting Stolen Nazi Art

44 mins; September 15, 2021

The Battle of Britain

115 hours 55 mins; September 14, 2021

The Last Hanging in Cardiff Prison

27 mins; September 13, 2021

Viking Legend: Ragnar Lothbrok

24 mins; September 12, 2021

9/11: The Legacy

29 mins; September 11, 2021

9/11: The Fire Commissioner at Ground Zero

29 mins; September 10, 2021

The Blitz: An Alternative History

45 mins; September 09, 2021

America's Secret President

23 mins; September 08, 2021

Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?

52 mins; September 07, 2021

The Normans

21 mins; September 06, 2021

A New History of the Middle Ages with Dan Jones

36 mins; September 05, 2021

Winston Churchill: From Failures to Finest Hour

30 mins; September 04, 2021

The Unheard Tapes of Bomber Command

37 mins; September 03, 2021

The Start of WWII

53 mins; September 02, 2021

Digging Medieval Battlefields

41 mins; September 01, 2021

Are Mandatory Vaccines New?

21 mins; August 31, 2021

John Simpson: Six Decades of Warzones

28 mins; August 30, 2021

The Secret History of the SBS

40 mins; August 29, 2021

Britain's Economy: How We Got Here

31 mins; August 28, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr

34 mins; August 27, 2021

The Invasion of Poland in World War Two

39 mins; August 26, 2021

The Shortest War in History

23 mins; August 25, 2021

WW2: The Great Imperial War

28 mins; August 24, 2021

Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities

50 mins; August 23, 2021

The Fall of the Soviet Union

29 mins; August 22, 2021

National Security in Trump's White House

35 mins; August 21, 2021

The Witches of Lorraine

42 mins; August 20, 2021

80th Anniversary of the First Arctic Convoy

26 mins; August 19, 2021

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

25 mins; August 18, 2021

Afghanistan: History Repeating Itself?

29 mins; August 17, 2021

The Rise of Oliver Cromwell

29 mins; August 16, 2021

Bonnie Prince Charlie

47 mins; August 15, 2021

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