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16/06/2024

The baptism site of Jesus.
Christians believe that Jesus was acknowledged as God’s son just after his baptism. It was the start of his ministry and the start of Christianity.

10/06/2024

100 yrs ago: Everest’s greatest mystery.
Mallory and Irvine disappeared high on the mountain. Did they make it?
Podcast lands tomorrow. Dan Snows History Hit. Listen wherever you get yours pods

08/06/2024

D-day: the decisive 90 minutes in real time.
Please check out my new podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit, wherever you get your podcasts

08/06/2024

What is D-day?
80 years ago allied forces began the liberation of north west Europe. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It was 6 June, 1944. D-day.

02/06/2024

Ypres Battlefield dig.
Dig Hill 80. A wonderful project to excavate a stretch of WW1 battlefield which changed hands repeatedly during the fighting on the Western Front. I visited a few years back and it was illuminating....

01/06/2024

WW2 bunker hunting.
In 1940 Britain faced the threat of invasion. Among the preparations made was the establishment of a unit of top-secret, suicidal, assassins and saboteurs called Auxiliaries. They had bunkers set back from the coast from which they planned to emerge and strike at German targets. They had two weeks of supplies. They were not expected to live any longer than that.
Today, those bunkers are lost and occasionally discovered by a dog walker. Team historyhit went on the hunt!
Listen to the podcast by following the link in the bio!

22/05/2024

Today in 1917 Australian troops captured this wood near Ypres.
Polygon Wood was a very strong defensive position in which the Germans had built modern steel and concrete defences. The Austrians captured it today during the First World War but suffered terrible casualties in the process.

16/05/2024

The Acropolis of Athens.

12/05/2024

21 October 1805: Trafalgar Day
One of the most decisive sea battles in history, the British annihilated the French and Spanish fleets to reinforce British domination of the oceans.
Nelson gets all the attention but my favourite story at the battle is one about a good looking Irishman, James Spratt.

02/05/2024

Today in 1918 Wilfred Owen was killed. Just a week before the end of . In his last letter to his mum he wrote, “there is no danger down here.”
They brought her the news of his death a week later as she listened to the bells of Shrewsbury ringing for victory.
Here is his most famous poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’

27/04/2024

One of history’s bloodiest battles ended today in 1916
The Somme.
A million men killed and wounded.

19/04/2024

Quite a day.

10/04/2024

Falaise Castle, one of France’s most imposing strongholds. Birthplace of the Conqueror. Bastion of Norman rule

Northern Jordan. Visiting remarkable ruins and the equally remarkable craftsmen who (with the support of the excellent w...
31/03/2024

Northern Jordan. Visiting remarkable ruins and the equally remarkable craftsmen who (with the support of the excellent worldmonumentsfund and britishcouncil) are keeping the skills alive to conserve and restore. Although these buildings and their art are millenia old, their survival is a very contemporary challenge.

The only one of the Ancient Seven Wonders that is still standing is the Great Pyramid.
29/03/2024

The only one of the Ancient Seven Wonders that is still standing is the Great Pyramid.

Dan Snow joins Spooning With Mark Wogan this week.He talks about the foods that he thinks he loves and the foods that he...
07/03/2024

Dan Snow joins Spooning With Mark Wogan this week.

He talks about the foods that he thinks he loves and the foods that he thinks he hates, with dishes served by Jamie Shears at Mount Street Restaurant in Mayfair.

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Waterloo bones. In Brussels I was shown bones of soldiers from the battle of Waterloo in 1815 which have been recovered from the battlefield recently. They tell a fascinating story of that bloody day.

The baptism site of Jesus. Christians believe that Jesus was acknowledged as God’s son just after his baptism. It was the start of his ministry and the start of Christianity.

Blue plaques surprise, inspire and intrigue us.

Britain’s best view. One of them. Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh.

The oldest map of the Holy Land. From the 6th Century. Before the Arab conquest. In a church in Madaba, Jordan.

Robin Hood’s Castle! Maybe.

Dead Sea Scrolls. The oldest fragment of the bible we have. Found by a shepherd in 1947.

An ancient place of worship dedicated to Heracles, and also a place of Christian worship, when Greece was under the Ottoman Empire.

One of Britain’s oldest trees! This yew is between two and four thousand years old.

100 yrs ago: Everest’s greatest mystery. Mallory and Irvine disappeared high on the mountain. Did they make it? Podcast lands tomorrow. Dan Snows History Hit. Listen wherever you get yours pods

Happy Royal Oak Day! Here’s the OG Royal Oak Today is the date on which Parliament mandated the perpetual giving of thanks for the restoration of the Stuarts in 1660. I visited the place where Charles II his as a young fugitive in 1651 in an oak. It’s next to Boscobel House, Shropshire. The current oak is the child of that 17th C oak because it was ripped apart by souvenir hunters. When this one was hit by lightning, Prince Charles planted the grandchild of the Royal Oak next to it

D-day: the decisive 90 minutes in real time. Please check out my new podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit, wherever you get your podcasts #dday #DDay80

What is D-day? 80 years ago allied forces began the liberation of north west Europe. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It was 6 June, 1944. D-day.

Swimming tanks of D-day The DD tank doesn’t look like it should float but it does just that.

D-day80. Portsmouth Harbour. The Solent. Historic waterway.

D-day. 80 years ago right now there was fierce fighting on this Normandy beach and four others to the west. This was Sword Beach. A British landing zone. For a minute by minute account please head to the podcast Dan Snow’s History Hit wherever you get your pods. #DDay80

80 years ago today, Pegasus Bridge was the scene of fierce fighting on D-Day. Dan Snow (thehistoryguy) and the team visited last year to explore what happened on that famous ‘longest day’ in 1944. #dday80 #DDay

Stunning Scottish glen. A few miles south of Cape Wrath, looking west towards the Western Isles. Some of the world’s most beautiful landscape.

Alone in the Valley of the Kings. After closing time. One of the greatest sites on the earth.

200 years old and still the highest canal aqueduct in the world. The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, also Britain's longest, is a wonder of the world.

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