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Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Dormice? Sow's Uterus? What on earth did the Romans eat? Join Emma and Janina for a culinary odyssey through the world of Roman Food.

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/historyissexy Who are some of the most badass saints? What were their lives like? What's a "desert father"? Find out all of this and more!

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 stuf...

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 po...

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...

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 be...

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 h...

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.

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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!

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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...

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