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Dan Snow's History Hit
Historian Dan Snow investigates the 'how' and 'why' of history's defining moments.From the Colosseum of Ancient Rome and the battlefields of Waterloo to the tomb of Tutankhamun, Dan journeys across the globe to share the greatest stories from the past that help us understand the present.New episodes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.You can get in touch with us at ds.hh@historyhit.comA podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts The Ancients, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.
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What happened to the bones of the Waterloo battlefield?
Episode Date: August 17, 2022In June 1815 the French army under the command of Napoleon was decisively beaten by an allied army led by Britain and Prussia at Waterloo in what is n...
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Walter Purdy: The Traitor of Colditz
Episode Date: August 16, 2022In the Second World War, the Germans liked to boast that there was 'no escape' from the infamous fortress and POW camp Colditz. However, the elite Bri...
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The Tiananmen Square Massacre
Episode Date: August 15, 2022In 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus of large-scale demonstrations as mostly young students crowded into central Beijing to protest fo...
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Mutiny on The Bounty
Episode Date: August 14, 2022Numerous novels, TV shows and as many as 5 movies- including the Hollywood classic starring Clarke Gable and Marlon Brando - have immortalised the sto...
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300 Years of British Prime Ministers Part 2
Episode Date: August 12, 20222/2. It's a big summer for British politics with Boris Johnson's resignation and the race between conservative hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to t...
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300 Years of British Prime Ministers Part 1
Episode Date: August 10, 20221/2. It's a big summer for British politics with Boris Johnson's resignation and the race between conservative hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to t...
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Unrest in Parliament: The Hot Summer of 1911
Episode Date: August 9, 2022The summer of 1911 was a hot one. Massive strikes took place across the country, including seamen, railwaymen, coal miners, women working in food proc...
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The Origins of Rome
Episode Date: August 8, 2022Known as the Eternal City, ancient Rome was one of the greatest civilisations in human history, but how did it come about?With a turbulent history of...
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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Episode Date: August 7, 2022On August 6 and 9, 1945, US B-29 bombers, dropped their nuclear bombs on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands and c...
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Anne Frank's Step Sister: 'How I Survived the Holocaust' Part 2
Episode Date: August 4, 20222/2. Eva Schloss remembers her days as a girl in Amsterdam playing in the street with the other children including Anne Frank who, for a time, took a...
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Anne Frank's Step Sister: 'How I Survived the Holocaust' Part 1
Episode Date: August 3, 20221/2. On the morning of the 4th of August 1944, exactly 78 years ago today, the Frank family cowered behind a bookshelf in Amsterdam, listening to heav...
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Thor: The God behind the Superhero
Episode Date: August 2, 2022Few early medieval gods are as well-known and as popular as Thor. He’s currently thrilling moviegoers worldwide with his new outing for the Marve...
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When Football Banned Women
Episode Date: August 1, 2022England’s historic Euro 2022 victory on Sunday night was the most watched TV programme of the year. It feels like it's the first time women's football...
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Episode Date: July 31, 2022In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel—and then a fierce...
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The Long Death of Slavery
Episode Date: July 28, 2022We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, and in the United States during the Civil War. Yet, over the ap...
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Anne of Cleves
Episode Date: July 27, 2022Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was she in fac...
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A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
Episode Date: July 26, 2022The Ottoman Empire was gigantic; at one point it reached the walls of Vienna to the Persian Gulf and beyond. It was established at the end of the 13th...
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The Biggest Prison Breakout of WW2
Episode Date: July 25, 2022During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, thousands of Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. On the icy night...
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Putin, Power and Personality
Episode Date: July 24, 2022Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine,...