Britain's Black Power Movement
Leila Hassan Howe and Amanda Kirton joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of the Black Power movement in Britain.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history docu...
19 Des 202024min
The Violence of the Suffragettes
Today we remember the suffragettes as a peaceful movement, but in the years before the First World War, the WSPU launched one of the most shocking terrorist campaigns the British mainland has ever see...
18 Des 202025min
Sicily '43
James Holland joined me on the podcast to discuss the allied invasion of Sicily on the 10th July 1943.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries, as well as ev...
17 Des 202023min
Ethiopia: All You Need to Know
Richard Reid joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of Ethiopia.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries, as well as every single episode of this...
16 Des 202023min
How Dogs Became Man's Best Friend
Mike Loades joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of dogs, and they are intertwined with human history.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries,...
14 Des 202016min
Adolf Hitler: The War Years
At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat. Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a su...
13 Des 202056min
How Slavery Built Modern Britain
Padraic Scanlan joined me on the podcast to talk about how Britain rose to global power on the backs of enslaved workers. Modern Britain has inherited the legacies and contradictions of a liberal empi...
12 Des 202022min
Disinformation and the White Helmets in Syria
Chloe Hadjimatheou joined me on the podcast to talk about the death of James Le Mesurier, the man who co-founded the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence force who filmed themselves pulling survivors...
11 Des 202019min
