Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on History Hit

Watch this video and more on History Hit

🎧 Were the Victorians Happier Than Us?

Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 26m

Up Next in Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧

  • 🎧 West Africa Before the Europeans

    Toby Green has been fascinated by the history of West Africa for decades after he visited as a student and heard whispers of history that didn’t appear in text books. Years later he wrote ‘Fistful of Shells,’ a survey of West Africa and West-Central Africa before the slave trade, and the effect t...

  • 🎧 Western Europe’s Age of Democracy

    In the second half of the twentieth century, western Europe was shaped by a revolutionary political force: democracy. Or at least that's what Martin Conway has argued in his major new history. On this podcast, Martin - a teacher from my university days - interrogated the years following the Secon...

  • 🎧 The Battle of Taranto

    The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Italian naval forces, under Admiral Inigo Campioni. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in histo...