ENDURANCE22: Dan Sets Sail for Antarctica!
The expedition has begun and Dan is here to answer your questions about all things Endurance22, the expedition to find Shackleton’s lost shipwreck! Fo...
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History! The most exciting and important things that have ever happened on the planet! Featuring reports from the weird and wonderful places around the world where history has been made and interviews with some of the best historians writing today. Dan also covers some of the major anniversaries as they pass by and explores the deep history behind today's headlines - giving you the context to understand what is going on today.
Russia's Threat to Invade Ukraine
Amid Moscow’s increasing build-up of troops along the Ukrainian border and the preparation of infrastructure for a possible invasion, tensions between...
The Troubles: How It Started
With Kenneth Branagh film, Belfast, hitting cinemas - we run down the historical background of the early years of the decades-long conflict in Norther...
The Forgotten Einstein
John von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived, a man who was in his day as well-known as Einstein and considered smart...
Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm
Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to live ...
The Execution of Charles I
On the 30th January, 372 years ago, Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland, stepped out of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to be beheaded in ...
After Nuremberg
The 1950s in West Germany saw a sharp decline in Nazi war crimes investigations and trials. Instead, there were campaigns for amnesties and reductions...
Nuremberg: The Trial of Major War Criminals
Carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949, the Nuremberg trials were held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Th...
The Boy Who Survived Auschwitz
Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he ha...
Endurance22: The Search for Shackleton's Shipwreck - New Season Coming to Dan Snow's History Hit!!
Have you heard? History Hit is going to the Antarctic!Dan is joining an incredible expedition to locate the missing shipwreck of Ernest Shackleton’s v...