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Dan Snow's History Hit

Our Love Affair with History

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

History

4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

From the great battles such as Dunkirk, historical titans such Alexander the Great and historical oddities such as Henry VIII's enemas Dan speaks to author and historian Dominic Sandbrook about what it is that sparks a passion for history. They also discuss the challenges of writing and podcasting about history and Dominic's new series of books Adventures in Time which aim to bring the past alive for twenty-first century children, allowing them to discover the thrills and spills of history within a page-turning narrative.

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0:00.0

Have them welcome to Dance on His History. I've got a fellow podcast on the pod this time,

0:04.4

Dominic Sambrook, host of the Brilliant, the rest of his history podcast. He was like

0:08.7

me at TV, presented at the BBC, but unlike me, he's also written a slew of brilliant, best

0:13.7

selling, highly acclaimed history books as well. He's now a podcast as well as an author,

0:18.5

but he's also decided to take a new tack. He's writing some history books for kids, and

0:22.7

we both agree, does we have kids of so major, that there is a kind of weird gap in the market,

0:26.8

which is a rare thing in our capitalist world of competing interests. There's a sort of gap

0:31.1

in the market for history for a certain age group, where in danger of losing kids at that

0:36.3

particular age, so after the horrible history's excitement of being young and has been chopped

0:40.8

off, and before they can start getting to kind of adult popular history, there's a

0:45.3

sort of gap, and he's trying to fill it. Good luck to him. In this podcast, we talk about

0:49.0

history, talk about broadcasting it, studying it, writing it. What makes good history stories

0:54.5

to tell and engage young people? Interesting stuff. If you wish to log on to watch the

1:01.1

World's Best History Channel, you can now do so anywhere in the world. All you have

1:04.3

to do is go to history.tv. You head over there, and for a small subscription, less than

1:10.6

the cost of a cocktail every month, you get access to history hit TV. We've got documentaries

1:15.8

going very well at the moment this week, on the final 100 days of the first award, the

1:19.4

series of largely forgotten victories, one by the American, British and French allies

1:23.7

and others, on the Western Front, fighting the Germans in 1918. We all remember the great

1:28.7

sort of futile stalemates of the First World War, very few of us talk about the succession

1:33.3

of enormous and significant victories that ended that war 103 years ago this month. So

1:40.5

please head over and do that. Those documentaries are great, and they're doing really well. So

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