Dan Snow's HISTORY HIT

Thomas Penn, author of the Winter King, has released a new comprehensive history of the Wars of the Roses, making the striking claim that we shouldn't view the Wars of the Roses as a conflict between two rival houses, but instead as a civil war inside the House of York. For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, signup to 

Professor Andrew Hindmoor, head of Politics at the University of Sheffield, chats to Dan about the days that he thinks shaped Britain today. He talks about the notion of looking at specific days as a way of looking at history, and then talks about everything from Theresa May to Stephen Lawrence to the Premier League. For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, signup to 

The Haitian Revolution caused a seismic shift in global politics. When a mixture of different groups on the French colony of Saint Domingue rose against the colonists, few expected the rebellion to succeed. However, under the leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitians became one of the few peoples to not only successfully rebel against their masters, but also to success in retaining control over the colony. Dan talks to Dr Nicole Willson, an expert in the history of Haiti about the revolution and the key actors in the conflict. For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, signup to 

Orlando Figes talks to Dan about social and technological developments and their relationship to cultural changes in the 19th century. For information regarding your data privacy, visit

Dan talks to Greg Jenner about the history of celebrity and his role as historical advisor in the Horrible Histories film. For information regarding your data privacy, visit