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D-Day: The Air Invasion
Episode 1447
In the second episode of our D-Day series, we look to the skies. In the build-up to Operation Overlord, thousands of Allied pilots in heavy bombers a…
1 year, 9 months ago
D-Day: The Sea Invasion
Episode 1446
This is the often forgotten chapter of the D-Day story.
To begin our series for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we turn to the massive nav…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: Smuggling in Colonial America
Episode 1445
This is the story of a bloody mutiny aboard the Boston-based schooner, the Rising Sun. The ship had been on a routine smuggling voyage before it was …
1 year, 9 months ago
Coming Soon! D-day by Land, Sea and Air
June 6th marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day and Dan Snow's History Hit is it by bringing you its biggest series yet. From now until May next year, w…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s Third Queen
Episode 1443
Jane Seymour is a paradox. Of Henry VIII’s six wives, she is the one about whom we know perhaps the least. She was the most lowly of the queens, but …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Opium Wars
Episode 1442
2/2. The British Empire aggressively pursued the opium trade well into the 19th century, fueling an addiction epidemic within China. The Qing governm…
1 year, 9 months ago
The British Empire, China and Opium
Episode 1441
1/2. Victorian readers were captivated by descriptions of smoke-filled opium dens among backstreet brothels and pubs in London's East End in Oscar Wi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Civil War in Feudal Japan: The Sengoku Period
Episode 1440
Dating from 1467-1603, the Sengoku or ‘Warring States’ period is known as the bloodiest in Japan’s history; an era of continuous social upheaval and …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Royal Navy's Darkest Night & The Origins of Longitude
Episode 1439
A mix of treacherous seas, navigation errors, and historical intrigue led to one of the Royal Navy's darkest nights. Dan travels to the Scilly Isles …
1 year, 10 months ago
Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt: The Impossible Alliance that Won WWII
Episode 1438
In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. As the Germans drove towards Moscow, a catastrophic Soviet defeat seemed imminent - a defeat …
1 year, 10 months ago