Dan Snow's HISTORY HIT

The Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein

Perhaps one of the best-known modern dictators, Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq for nearly 30 years...

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The Zong Massacre

In November 1781, a slave ship carrying hundreds of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic began...

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Operation Paperclip: Nazis in the USA

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Allied Powers sent research teams into the ruins of...

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Zelenskyy: TV Comedian to War President

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meteoric rise to power has been packed with drama and action. His journey...

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Septimium Severus

Given his incredible career, you'd perhaps expect the name of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus to...

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The Space Shuttle

Over a period of 30 years, NASA's Space Shuttle program contributed to some of space...

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Scott's Last Days in the Antarctic

In the last week of March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott died in his tent in Antarctica, on...

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HMS Victory

During the Battle of Trafalgar, the men on the gun decks of HMS Victory felt the heat of fire...

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How to Prepare for Nuclear War

With Putin's war in Ukraine raging on, the threat of a nuclear conflict feels as real as ever....

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Cooking for Churchill: Georgina Landemare

Clear soup, Irish stew and steamed puddings - this was the war work of Georgina Landemare, the...

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The Great Storm of 1703

A Stuart time capsule has emerged from beneath the sand after 320 years. In early December 1703,...

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Islam vs Christendom

As two of humanity's great religions, Islam and Christianity have shaped much of the world's...

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A Short History of Bank Collapses

Looking back at the past few weeks, it seems like banks are collapsing left, right and centre;...

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Soviet "Bone Music"

While rifling through a stall at a flea market in Leningrad- now St Petersburg- composer and...

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The Death of Amy Dudley

On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at Cumnor Place in...

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Satire & Scandal in Georgian England

Can we trace the 'British sense of humour' back to the Georgian period? It was an age of royal...

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What is a Fascist?

This is everything you ever wanted to know about fascism. Are the British government's new...

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The Glencoe Massacre

Glencoe in the Scottish highlands is a beautiful landscape with a dark past. While folks from all...

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Red Memory: Legacies of The Chinese Cultural Revolution

By the early 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong's campaign to modernise Communist China had ended in...

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Samuel Adams

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Samuel Adams was a political force of nature....

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