Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Season 3 Episode 2
Katherine Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), later Katherine Brandon, then Katherine Bertie, was an English heiress, Protestan…
6 years ago
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Season 3 Episode 1
Mary Tudor (9 October 1514 – 1 January 1515), not to be confused with Queen Mary I or Mary, Queen of Scots, was briefly Queen of France. She then had…
6 years ago
Pandemic Special: Milkmaids, Harem girls, and the History of the Smallpox Vaccine
Smallpox was a highly contagious, deadly disease which likely first appeared around the 3rd century BCE in Egypt. From then on, it followed trade rou…
6 years, 4 months ago
Pandemic Special: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the English sweating sickness
From 1485 - 1551, England experienced several epidemics of a mysterious illness known only as the sweating sickness. Unlike other diseases that affec…
6 years, 4 months ago
Joanna of Naples
Season 2 Episode 9
Joanna of Naples (1326-1382) was Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily for thirty action-packed and highly scandilicious years. This story has it al…
6 years, 5 months ago
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Season 2 Episode 9
Anne I (1665 – 1714), best known as the main character of the movie The Favourite, was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland and then of Great Brita…
6 years, 5 months ago
Eyam, The Plague Village (Pandemic Super Special)
In 1665, the tiny English town of Eyam was beset by the same plague that was affecting London. Under the guidance of the town's reverend, the village…
6 years, 5 months ago
Charles II de Valois And The Pillow Fight Of Death (Pandemic Super Special)
Charles II de Valois (1522-1545) was the third son of the French King Francis I. He died very young from an entirely preventable and ridiculous pillo…
6 years, 5 months ago
Juana I of Castile
Season 2 Episode 7
Juana I of Castile (1479-1555) was the third child of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. She's remembered now for being "Juana La Loca/Juan…
6 years, 5 months ago
Joan Of England: The Princess And The Plague (Pandemic Super Special)
Joan of England (1335-1348) was the first known English person to die of the bubonic plague. She set out with a massive entourage from England to Cas…
6 years, 5 months ago