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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Join sex historian Dr Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush.What were the Victorians really like behind closed (bedroom) doors? How did the Black Death favour women in medieval England? And what was Caesar like in the sack? Join Kate as she bed-hops around different time periods; from ancient civilisations, to the middle ages, to renaissance and early modern...right up to now.You’ll laugh, you’ll wince, and you’ll ask yourself how much has actually changed.Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - a podcast from History Hit.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Grisly Deaths of Kings & Queens
Episode Date: October 21, 2022Did Henry VIII really have syphilis? Who died from a red hot poker up the bum? And which king was taken down by a school of fish?To learn about the of...
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Black Georgians
Episode Date: October 18, 2022Who were Ignatius Sancho, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Francis Barber?Between 10,000 and 30,000 black people lived in Britain during the Georgian period....
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Henrietta Maria: The Most Hated Queen Consort?
Episode Date: October 14, 2022What does it take to get the reputation as one of the least popular queens in history?Should we remember Henrietta Maria as the wife of the King execu...
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Serial Killers & Misogyny
Episode Date: October 11, 2022What is it with our culture’s fascination with serial killers? Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Peter Sutclifffe, Jack the Ripper….these violent people are...
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Phobias & Manias
Episode Date: October 7, 2022What did Salvador Dali, Elizabeth I and Sigmund Freud have in common? They all had phobias, and it's possible you do too.As ‘normal’ as you might cons...
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Black Victorians
Episode Date: October 4, 2022Why is there an assumption that Victorian Britain was white? Who does this mean is missing from our history books? And how can we find out more about...
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Bad King James VI & I
Episode Date: September 30, 2022You might know him best as the longest reigning Scottish king, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, the father of Charles I, or the eponymous poster of th...
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Private Members’ Clubs
Episode Date: September 27, 2022Private Members’ Clubs are often the location of suspected scandal - from Oscar Wilde to Chris Pincher, what happens behind these elitist doors?Seth A...
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The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Episode Date: September 23, 2022Marilyn Monroe. She's got to be one of the most famous people of all time, hasn't she?But what happens when an investigative war reporter dedicates ye...
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Forbidden Books
Episode Date: September 20, 2022What makes a book bad? Does it have to be nonsensical? Heretical? Libellous? Sexy?Well for 500 years, a panel from the Roman Catholic Church attempted...
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Women in Power
Episode Date: September 16, 2022What do Hatshepsut and Hillary Clinton have in common?Well, what do they have in common with the vast majority of women who have been so successful as...
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Con Artists
Episode Date: September 13, 2022Whether they are online scams or in person card tricks, confidence games - better known now as cons - have been around for as long as we have. But whi...
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Mafia Women
Episode Date: September 2, 2022Who was Pupetta Maresca? And what did she do to become the first woman in Italy to be prohibited from having a funeral?In this episode, Kate chats to...
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Charles II's Mistresses
Episode Date: August 30, 2022Lucy Walter, Barbara Palmer, Louise Kérouaille and Nell Gwynn. These are the names of just a key few of King Charles II’s mistresses.In this episode,...
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Sexual Violence
Episode Date: August 26, 2022Definitions of what can and cannot be described as sexual violence vary widely across time and place. In 48 countries around the world today, for exam...
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Viking Sex
Episode Date: August 23, 2022Who was Loki having sex with? What is a horse penis cult? And were the Vikings as brutal as we think they were?Betwixt the Sheets today, Kate is joine...
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Women & Football
Episode Date: August 19, 2022Football, or soccer depending on where you are in the world, is quite unsuitable for women, wouldn’t you agree? No? Well the Football Association thou...