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Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy The most devious, murderous cut-throat family of renaissance Italy.. or misunderstood victims of slanderous propaganda? Emma and Janina take a look at one of Italy's most infamous families, their rise, and fall.

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy ... and were they really so dark? Listener survey link: https://forms.gle/78wMyX42uQvpHf1Y8 Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-82-what-makes-the-dark-ages-dark

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Graham and Ali from Rex Factor are here and we're talking about England's most consequential Queen Consorts, and all the skulduggery she got up to! ⚠ Listener survey! ⚠ We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the best that it can be. To help us figure this stuff out, please answer whichever questions you can (none are mandatory, if you don't want to answer, just skip it). -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BqExg24ETNNN0Z3roCcyDpW6rlQ3qsaGeS2Nrb3YQEtl5A/viewform?usp=sf_link <-

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Willkommen in Österreich! Emma is joined by History Is Sexy producer and Austria Correspondent Oliver to have a look at a story that's captured Austrian hearts for a hundred years, the life of Empress Elisabeth. ⚠ Listener survey! ⚠ We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the best that it can be. To help us figure this stuff out, please answer whichever questions you can (none are mandatory, if you don't want to answer, just skip it). -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BqExg24ETNNN0Z3roCcyDpW6rlQ3qsaGeS2Nrb3YQEtl5A/viewform?usp=sf_link <-

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Emma is joined by HR Owen once again to discuss the most dramatic family in Classical Egypt! ⚠ Listener survey! ⚠ We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the best that it can be. To help us figure this stuff out, please answer whichever questions you can (none are mandatory, if you don't want to answer, just skip it). -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BqExg24ETNNN0Z3roCcyDpW6rlQ3qsaGeS2Nrb3YQEtl5A/viewform?usp=sf_link <-

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Janina's on a bit of a break, but history never sleeps, so Emma is joined by acclaimed podcaster HR Owen for a deep dive into perhaps one of the most dramatic families in history, the Ptolemys. ⚠ Listener survey! ⚠ We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the best that it can be. To help us figure this stuff out, please answer whichever questions you can (none are mandatory, if you don't want to answer, just skip it). -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BqExg24ETNNN0Z3roCcyDpW6rlQ3qsaGeS2Nrb3YQEtl5A/viewform?usp=sf_link <-

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy How did the various states that've existed on the British Isles/North Atlantic Archipelago coalesce, fracture, and coalesce over and over until it became the country we know today? A thousand years of history, all in just over an hour! ⚠ Listener survey! ⚠ We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the best that it can be. To help us figure this stuff out, please answer whichever questions you can (none are mandatory, if you don't want to answer, just skip it). -> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5BqExg24ETNNN0Z3roCcyDpW6rlQ3qsaGeS2Nrb3YQEtl5A/viewform?usp=sf_link <-

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy In 60CE, Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, led a violent uprising of unprecedented scale that tore across the southeast of Britannia, burning London and shocking the Roman world. But what's the real story? Was she real? Was she a literary construct? How are our modern conceptions of Boudica affected by the Victorians and Elizabethans?

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Put on your gown and get ready to enter high society, as Emma and Janina walk you through the bizarre world of Debutantes, Balls, and "The Season"

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy This time, Dr Emma Southon and Janina Matthewson take a deep dive into matriarchal societies in classical and pre-history, did they really exist?

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Caligula is a 1979 film made by pornographers, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Sir John Gielgud, and Peter O'Toole. It's also completely bananas. Join Emma (seen it dozens of times) and Janina (not seen it before) as they discuss this scandalous and notorious historical film.

And why was he so special?

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Emma and Janina investigate the mystery of wild children, and whether any of them were actually raised by olves.

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy What's "The Great Masculine Renunciation?" Who was Beau Brummell? Why are men's clothes so boring now?

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Emma and Janina are back behind the mast of the longship! This time, we're discussing sagas, eddas, and other various mythological titbits. www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy We're back, and better than ever! This time, Emma and Janina will be answering a few questions about everyone's favourite nordic seafaring pirate raiders, the Vikings! Were the Vikings the ISIS of the 9th century? Were the Vikings criminal outcasts from their homelands? Did we like Assassin's Creed: Valhalla? Tune in to find out!

A quick update to promise you that we are not dead and encourage you to stop giving us money. Please stop giving us money until 2023! <3

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Where did the idea that Victorians were all repressed weirdos come from? Is it true? Did they cover their piano legs for modesty? What's going on? Show notes and links and get in contact at www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Who were the Illuminati? Did they cause revolutions all over the world, or were they just a bunch of nerds? Are philosophers to blame for everything? And did the French make books out of the skins of those they guillotined? Show Notes at https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-66-did-the-illuminati-cause-the-french-revolution Support us at www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy What's the history of Petra? Why was it considered lost for so long? Why aren't Bedouin people allowed to live there any more, and other things colonialism has ruined. Show notes at https://historyissexy.com/

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy This week we explore the weird and wonderful world of alchemy, from ancient China to Isaac Newton. Show notes https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-64-whats-the-history-of-alchemy

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy People who's lives turned out to involve things no one could have predicted. Show notes: historyissexy.com/show-notes/cqcz3d5vh0ftaryie0kdkbw8s5ht7g

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy *Reuploaded* This episode we talk political philosophy, chaos, revolutions and war crimes and the messy path to human rights theory. Show notes, merch and contact form at www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Did a real human man called Jesus actually live and was he really crucified or did the church make the whole thing up? Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-61-did-jesus-really-exist

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Was the past stinky? Were medieval peasants covered in poo like Monty Python? Did people really piss out of windows like in Blackadder? Were the streets of medieval London rivers of animal guts and dung? Or were the people of the past just like us? Let's find out! Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-60-how-smelly-was-the-past

We debate Oliver Cromwell and whether, massacres and puritanism aside, he was really such a bad guy. Show notes at historyissexy.com/show-notes/0pd9rhjo7tx1caqc6baqevdinck1y3

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Was there really an all female tribe of warrior women in the ancient world? Did they cut off one boob? Why would they do that? Emma and Janina discuss the evidence. Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-58-were-the-amazons-real

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy The greatest escapes in history, or; how we learned the most tried and true escape methods. Show notes and merch available at https://historyissexy.com/

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy A continuation of the last episode on Arabic libraries and centres of learning, today we visit West Africa and learn how Timbuktu became a focus of Islamic scholarship and learning. Show notes historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-56-whats-the-history-of-timbuktu

We talk about the great libraries of Baghdad and Cordoba. Includes a truly thrilling escape story that for some reason hasn't had a big budget HBO series made about it? Show notes and merch available at historyissexy.com/

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Sieges, sieges and more sieges! Turns out there's more to Malta than just seiges, but there are a lot of them. Janina and Emma discuss knights, crusades, mother goddesses and endless, interminable wars. Show notes and links at www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy The final part of our Rasputin series features Boney M, Anastasia, and Rasputin's alleged dick! Show notes and merch available at https://historyissexy.com/

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy In part two of our Rasputin series, we talk about actual Rasputin! His life, his death, and our new favourite historical personage, his murderer. Show notes and merch available at https://historyissexy.com/.

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy It's a series! Part one of a three part look at that cat that really was gone, Rasputin. Show notes and merch available at https://historyissexy.com/.

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy *reupload to fix sound problems at the start!* This week, Emma and Janina talk about clothing laws, colonialism and pants! Show notes, contact details and merch are at www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy This week, Janina and Emma discuss the ways in which people mostly people with uteruses) prevented pregnancy in the past! Content warnings for miscarriage, abortion and a lot of horrible things gong into vaginal canals! For show notes and merch, see our shiny new website! www.historyissexy.com

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Emma and Janina talk all things poison and unexpected methods of poisoning people throughout the ages. Sources at https://historyissexy.com/

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy This time Emma and Janina take a look at the history of pets, where did dogs come from? Why were cats persecuted in the middle ages? What were the favourite pets of the Romans? 😺🐶🐦 Show notes and references https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-47-history-pets

Emma's new book is OUT NOW! To celebrate the launch of A Fatal Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, we had a lovely Live Episode/Q&A event. Here is the unedited audio recording for you to listen to at your leisure. Buy A Fatal Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatal-Thing-Happened-Way-Forum/dp/1786078376/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600377106&sr=8-1 https://www.bookdepository.com/Fatal-Thing-Happened-on-Way-Forum-Emma-Southon/9781786078377?ref=grid-view&qid=1600377032474&sr=1-1

Emma has a book out so we are having a live episode (on zoom) for free and we invite you to join us! Register here (for free) https://bit.ly/3itHqxb

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy 👽👽👽 We're back for another episode! This time Emma and Janina dive into the weird and wonderful world of aliens, and for just how long people have believed in them. So strap into your UFO chair, drink your weird blue milk, and enjoy the ride! 👽👽👽 Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-46-history-aliens

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy That's right folks, this time Emma and Janina step into the ring to examine the surprising history of everyone's favourite grappling-based sports entertainment, wrestling!

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy It's a three-in-one this time as Emma and Janina tackle three questions, all on the theme of Women's suffrage! Why did New Zealand grant universal suffrage so early? Who was the *real* first woman MP? Why is Switzerland so weird? Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-44-womens-suffrage Janina's Musical: https://open.spotify.com/album/27pikGLOASw0WtUnfxBbCh?si=bgANPckGSSuULrBoJMJpdg

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Join Emma and Janina as they take a look at the topic of redheads in history, and why something as simple as a hair colour has been consequential for so many people. Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-43-red-headed-history

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy We're back! This time Emma and Janina tackle some quicker listener questions! Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-42-more-short-questions

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy We're back! This time we're taking a deep dive into the stories of the coolest Roman women from after 68CE! www.ko-fi.com/hispod www.twitter.com/sexyhistorypod Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-41-coolest-roman-women

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Yo ho me hearties! We're back with another swashbuckling episode for all you landlubbers. Emma and Janina answer another burning question: Were pirates communists? Did they also occasionally get married to each other? Just how good were they anyway? Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-40-were-pirates-really-communists

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy This time, Emma and Janina tackle a very complicated pair of questions. Which royal figures in history were queer/LGBT, and has the gender binary/heteronormativity always been that way? Sources: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-39-queer-royals

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Join Emma and Janina as they take a deep dive into the strange and surprising history of gynaecology. Featuring: Speculae! Forceps! Babies with slightly squashed heads!

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Emma and Janina return for the second bit of their two-part quest to tackle Chinese history, dynasty by dynasty. There's so much of it! www.ko-fi.com/hispod