Dan Snow's History Hit
Hosted by Dan Snow · History Hit
4.8from 10,552 ratings
- 1,510
- Episodes
- 399
- Transcribed
- 10,552
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Dan Snow's History Hit
Historian Dan Snow journeys across the globe to tell the stories of history's defining moments. From the Colosseum in Rome to the Great Wall of China, the battlefields of Waterloo to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, join Dan as he explores the how and why of the greatest monuments, battles, heroes, villains and events that have shaped our world. New episodes on Mondays and Thursdays with bonus subscriber only episodes every other Friday. You can get in touch with us at ds.hh@historyhit.com (mailto:ds.hh@historyhit.com) A podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts The Ancients, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets. History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™ Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe (https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- History Hit
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
399 of 1,510 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
WWI's Stalingrad: The Siege of Przemyśl
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Rise of Peter The Great
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Medieval Ghost Stories
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WWI's Stalingrad: The Siege of Przemyśl
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Well, for both sides, but for the defending forces? Because you say there's not enough food, so food shortage of disease. Yeah, well, this is one of the places, one of the many places in which... the experience of this city and these people kind of spans epochs because in some ways this is a siege. […]
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- Alexander Watson
- Daniel Beer
- Eleanor Janega
- Richard Vinen
- Ben Kiernan
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 2,066,709
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 4,432 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 6,120 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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