Pre-historic Women
For years we've understood that in the prehistoric hunter-gather world, the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering. Prehistoric man went on adventures, invented, created and drew, whereas...
10 Feb 202329min
Dan, The Skeletons and The Battle of Waterloo
Dan Snow’s History Hit hits the road to Belgium and the Waterloo Battlefield to see the soldier’s bones found in an attic earlier this month. The Battle of Waterloo is often remembered for its great l...
9 Feb 202336min
Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.
Aethelfled, a warrior queen who crushed the Vikings, Jadwiga, the first Queen Regent of Poland and Hildegard of Bingen, an 11th-century polymath abbess who became a 20th-century feminist icon and sain...
8 Feb 202336min
The Real Casanova
Content Warning This episode contains adult themes and language that may not be suitable for children.On this special network crossover episode we're calling 'History Hit in the Sheets', host of our c...
7 Feb 202327min
The Murder of Charles I
It's 1660 and General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law board a ship bound for the New World. They're on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I. His execution, the culmination of the English...
6 Feb 202330min
Sex
250 million years ago the armour-plated Placoderm fish invented the act of sex as we know it. Hubba Hubba. Dive into the historical sack as we go in search of the origins of nature’s greatest-ever inv...
3 Feb 202321min
The End of Stalingrad
Stalingrad is one of the most titanic and totemic battles of the Second World War. Millions were killed, the city itself was utterly shattered by fighting and the seemingly unbeatable Wehrmacht suffer...
2 Feb 202342min
Normans, Romans and Victorians: History of England's New Forest
Where can you find an Iron Age fort, Roman kilns, trees built for Nelson's navy and the hunting lodge of William the Conqueror? In the place that Dan calls home: the New Forest in the South of England...
1 Feb 202321min
