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Empress Dowager Cixi, part two
Season 5 Episode 38
After part one laid a lot of track, part two is just all engines go as we look at the subsequent forty-seven years. There were two cult-based rebelli…
3 years, 9 months ago
Empress Dowager Cixi, part one
Season 5 Episode 37
OK this is a major episode, so get ready for the twists and turns of a truly unforgettable saga. Cixi was born to a Manchu family in China in the 19t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Artemisia I of Caria
Season 5 Episode 36
Artemisia I of Caria is one of the earliest recorded tits out women of history. She was the Queen of Halicarnassus hundreds of years before Cleopatra…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sarah Kidd (with Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos)
Season 5 Episode 35
You may not have heard of Sarah Kidd, but you likely have heard of her third husband: Captain Kidd, the famous pirate. I'm joined by Daphne Palmer Ge…
3 years, 10 months ago
Super Special: Before We Were Trans (with Kit Heyam)
Season 5 Episode 34
As soon as I read Kit Heyam's new book "Before We Were Trans" I knew I had to try and get them on the podcast. And happy day, Kit agreed! We talk in …
3 years, 10 months ago
Manuela Sáenz, part two
Season 5 Episode 33
Doña Manuela Sáenz de Vergara y Aizpuru was the illegitimate daughter of Spanish nobility in Quito (in modern day Ecuador). Side by side with Simón B…
3 years, 10 months ago
Manuela Sáenz, part one
Season 5 Episode 32
Doña Manuela Sáenz de Vergara y Aizpuru was the illegitimate daughter of Spanish nobility in Quito (in modern day Ecuador). After a political awakeni…
3 years, 11 months ago
Lola Montez, part two (with Allison Epstein)
Season 5 Episode 31
Part two of our exploration of Ireland's most scandalous heroine covers the second part of Lola Montez's life. Can't mention any details here, it's a…
3 years, 11 months ago
Lola Montez, part one (with Allison Epstein)
Season 5 Episode 30
Lola Montez is such a groundbreakingly dirtbaggy grifter and icon, we had to invite friend of the pod Allison Epstein (author of A Tip for the Hangma…
3 years, 11 months ago
Queen Min, part two
Season 5 Episode 29
In the second part of the saga of Queen Min, we see her extremely competently take control of the Joseon kingdom during a wildly chaotic period in ti…
3 years, 11 months ago