NEW: Dan Snow's Story of England COMING SOON
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Tales of feuding monarchs, bloody battles, plagues, explorers and scandals. In a special mini-series dropping from the 22nd May 2023 in this feed, Dan hits the road for a 5-day road trip to bring listeners his favourite parts of England's epic history. He dashes through one million years from Stonehenge to the Hastings battlefield across to the heart of industry at Ironbridge and ends in York’s Cold War Bunker to tell England’s story from the beginning to the present day with help from the country's best experts and storytellers. It's going to be a wild ride, so make sure to subscribe to Dan Snow's History Hit and tell your friends!
If there's somewhere you want Dan to stop off at, email us at ds.hh@historyhit.com and it could end up in the series!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Dan Snow here. I'm embarking on an epic road trip of England and I'm taking the podcast with me. |
| 0:06.5 | We're covering over 500 miles and 1 million years of English history, |
| 0:11.5 | stopping at the places that tell the incredible story of this country. |
| 0:18.0 | From the south coast where the Romans arrived on Britain's rugged shores |
| 0:23.5 | to the nuclear defence bunkers of the northeast. |
| 0:27.5 | We're going to hear about the monks, the rulers, bloody battles, murder and mayhem. |
| 0:33.0 | Dan Snow's history is the best place to go close to history. |
| 0:36.0 | My story of England series starts on Monday 22 May. |
| 0:49.0 | Nearly 1 million years ago, humans first took their steps on this island. |
| 0:54.0 | Probably in Norfolk where I am now. |
| 0:58.0 | Since then, England's history has become a rich and complex tapestry of nomadic tribes, overseas invaders, |
| 1:06.0 | era defining denisties as well as the birthplace of pioneering inventors and explorers |
| 1:12.0 | who've shaped our modern world for better or worse. |
| 1:17.0 | It's a lot of history to cover, but on Dan Snow's history at Podcast we like to go big. |
| 1:25.0 | And this spring we're doing just that. I'm embarking on an epic road trip of England |
| 1:29.0 | and I'm taking the podcast with me. |
| 1:32.0 | We're covering over 500 miles and 1 million years of English history, |
| 1:36.0 | stopping at the places that tell the incredible story of this country. |
| 1:42.0 | From the south coast where the Romans arrived on Britain's rugged shores |
| 1:47.0 | to the nuclear defence bunkers of the northeast. |
| 1:51.0 | We're going to hear about the monks, the rulers, bloody battles, murder and mayhem. |
| 1:56.0 | What it was like for the rules, whether that's some medieval peasant or a slum dweller |
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