Vulgar History

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A feminist women's history comedy podcast. We look at history through a feminist lens, focusing on the women often removed from the narrative. This season, we're looking at the Revolutions of the 18th century: the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the French Revolution.

Episode Date
Giving Credit To History's Disregarded Women
Jun 04, 2025
Canadian History: Thanadelthur, the Peacemaker
Jun 03, 2025
Movie Discussion: Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
May 28, 2025
French Revolution: Radicals (part 6): The Secret Female Journalist
May 21, 2025
French Revolution: Radicals (part 5): The Triple Agent
May 14, 2025
Movie Discussion: Conclave (2024)
May 09, 2025
French Revolution: Radicals (part 4): She Killed Him In The Bathtub
May 07, 2025
French Revolution: Radicals (part 3): A Toxic Bisexual Love Story
Apr 30, 2025
French Revolution: Radicals (part 2): The Actress With A Sword
Apr 23, 2025
French Revolution: Radicals (part 1): The Feminist Writer
Apr 16, 2025
Canadian History (part 5): The First Jew In Canada Was Trans
Apr 11, 2025
Author Interview: Hallie Rubenhold (Story of a Murder)
Apr 09, 2025
Canadian History (part 4): Acadian Martyr Madame La Tour
Apr 05, 2025
Women Leaders, part 9: The Murderous Medieval Queen (Rerelease)
Apr 02, 2025
Canadian History (part 3): Anahareo Married A Liar
Mar 28, 2025
Women Leaders, part 8: Queen Anne: Bisexual Icon (Rerelease)
Mar 26, 2025
Canadian History (part 2): WWII Resistance Fighter, Mona Parsons
Mar 21, 2025
Eugénie of France, the Rebel Empress (with Nancy Goldstone)
Mar 19, 2025
Canadian History (part 1): Civil Rights Icon, Viola Desmond
Mar 13, 2025
Author Interview: Veronica Chapa (Malinalli)
Mar 12, 2025
Fagin the Thief: Live from Minneapolis with Allison Epstein!
Mar 10, 2025
Women Leaders, part 7: The Madness of Juana La Loca (Rerelease)
Mar 05, 2025
Introducing: Fear Daily
Feb 28, 2025
Women Leaders, part 6: Genocidal Warrior Queen, Isabella I (Rerelease)
Feb 26, 2025
The Jewish Lady Gangster Who Ran New York City
Feb 19, 2025
Women Leaders, part 5: Almost-Queen Matilda (Rerelease)
Feb 12, 2025
The Beyoncé of the Antebellum, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Feb 05, 2025
Author Interview: Surekha Davies (Humans: A Monstrous History)
Jan 29, 2025
Author Interview: Helen King (Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts)
Jan 22, 2025
Author Interview: Elle Machray (Remember, Remember)
Jan 15, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti (with Marlene L. Daut)
Jan 08, 2025
Women Leaders, part 4: Killing Vikings With Murder Bees (Rerelease)
Jan 01, 2025
Movie Discussion: A Knight's Tale (2001)
Dec 25, 2024
The Irish Lady Pirate, Gráinne O’Malley
Dec 18, 2024
Author Interview: Mary McMyne (A Rose By Any Other Name)
Dec 11, 2024
Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age (with Annie Reed)
Dec 04, 2024
Author Interview: Therese Oneill (The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America)
Nov 27, 2024
Vaccination Pioneer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Nov 20, 2024
The Mysterious Foreign Princess Who Wasn't What She Seemed
Nov 13, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 7): The Lady Painter
Nov 06, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 6): Madame Tussaud
Oct 30, 2024
Bonus: Ann Is Writing A Book!
Oct 25, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 5): Lafayette's Later Years
Oct 23, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 4): Lafayette In America
Oct 16, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 3): Black Musical Pioneer Joseph Boulogne
Oct 09, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 2): Madame du Barry Lost Her Head
Oct 02, 2024
French Revolution: Witnesses (part 1): Madame du Barry, Versailles Hot Girl
Sep 24, 2024
So This Asshole: Louis XIV
Sep 23, 2024
Women Leaders, part 3: Boudica (Literally) Burned London Down (Rerelease)
Sep 18, 2024
Women Leaders, part 2: Ancient Rome's Most Murderous Woman (Rerelease)
Sep 11, 2024
Women Leaders, part 1.5: Cleopatra's Legacy
Sep 04, 2024
Women Leaders, part 1: Cleopatra Was That Bitch (Rerelease)
Aug 28, 2024
American Revolution, part 9: Ona Judge: Escaping Slavery And The Washingtons (pt 2/2)
Aug 21, 2024
American Revolution, part 8: Ona Judge: Enslaved By George & Martha Washington (pt 1/2)
Aug 14, 2024
American Revolution, part 7: Benedict Arnold's Wife (pt 2/2)
Aug 07, 2024
American Revolution, part 6: Benedict Arnold's Wife (pt 1/2)
Jul 31, 2024
American Revolution, part 5: Cherokee Leader, Nanye'hi aka Nancy Ward
Jul 24, 2024
Introducing BEEF with Bridget Todd
Jul 19, 2024
Peg Plunkett, Ireland's Most Successful Whore, part three
Jul 17, 2024
Peg Plunkett, Ireland's Most Successful Whore, part two
Jul 10, 2024
Peg Plunkett, Ireland's Most Successful Whore, part one
Jul 03, 2024
American Revolution, part 4: Sally Hemings (pt 2/2)
Jun 26, 2024
American Revolution, part 3: Sally Hemings (pt 1/2)
Jun 19, 2024
American Revolution, part 2: The Trans Quaker Guru
Jun 12, 2024
American Revolution, part 1: The Trans Soldier
Jun 05, 2024
New Zealand Lady Pirate, Charlotte Badger
May 29, 2024
Constanze Mozart, You've Probably Heard Of Her Husband
May 22, 2024
That Time An Enslaved Black Woman Burned Down Montreal (Allegedly)
May 15, 2024
Author Interview: June Hur (A Crane Among Wolves)
May 08, 2024
Author Interview: Ella McLeod (The Map that Led to You)
Apr 30, 2024
Las Soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution (with Cristina Lumague)
Apr 24, 2024
Indigenous Canadian Heroine Thanadelthur and the Hudson's Bay Company
Apr 17, 2024
The Real Story Of Pocahontas (Whose Name Was Actually Matoaka)
Apr 10, 2024
The First Female Egyptian Pharaoh, Hatshepsut
Apr 03, 2024
Latin American Nightmare Woman, La Quintrala
Mar 27, 2024
Margaret of Scotland Saved A Book And Became A Saint
Mar 20, 2024
Old Hollywood's First Asian Amerian Star, Anna May Wong
Mar 13, 2024
Author Interview: Flora Carr (The Tower)
Mar 06, 2024
Mary Shelley's Scandalous Stepsister, Claire Clairmont
Feb 28, 2024
The Queen of Sheba and African History
Feb 21, 2024
Black Canadian Abolitionist Hero, Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Feb 14, 2024
Author Interview: Avery Cunningham (The Mayor of Maxwell Street)
Feb 07, 2024
Author Interview: Vanessa Miller (The American Queen)
Jan 30, 2024
Author Interview: Andrea Penrose (The Diamond of London)
Jan 24, 2024
Women Behaving Badly, part 6: The Super Secret Spy (Rerelease)
Jan 17, 2024
Women Behaving Badly, part 5: Mary Toft Pulled (Several) Rabbits (Out Of Her Vagina ) (Rerelease)
Jan 10, 2024
Women Behaving Badly, part 4: Elizabeth Báthory Bathed In Blood (Not Really) (Rerelease)
Jan 03, 2024
Women Behaving Badly, part 3: She Stole Marie Antoinette's Necklace (Rerelease)
Dec 27, 2023
Women Behaving Badly, part 2: She Poisoned Her Enemy In Jail (Rerelease)
Dec 20, 2023
Muslim Heroine of the Crusades, Iṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn
Dec 17, 2023
Women Behaving Badly, part one: Caroline of Brunswick, Rebel of the Regency (Rerelease)
Dec 13, 2023
Rachel (Just One Name, Like Cher) And Her Union Of Lovers
Dec 06, 2023
Brunhild, War Queen Of Ancient France
Nov 29, 2023
Author Interview: Katherine Howe (A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself )
Nov 22, 2023
Aboriginal Australian Criminal Heroine, Mary Ann Bugg
Nov 15, 2023
Author Interview: Emma Southon (A Rome Of One's Own: Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire)
Nov 08, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots: Bonus: The A Scottish Witch Who Didn't Burn
Nov 01, 2023
Author Interview: John Guy and Julia Fox (Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe)
Oct 25, 2023
The Six Foot Tall Russian Empress Who Loved To Crossdress
Oct 18, 2023
The Genderqueer Life Of Louisa May Alcott
Oct 11, 2023
Author Interview: Denny S. Bryce (The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Goddaughter)
Oct 04, 2023
Author Interview: Heather Redmond (Death and the Sisters: A Mary Shelley Mystery)
Sep 27, 2023
Rome's Horny Trans Teen Emperor, Elagabalus
Sep 23, 2023
Author Interview: Rosie Harte (The Royal Wardrobe: A Very Fashionable History of the Monarchy)
Sep 20, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots: Bonus: Mary's Besties, The Four Marys
Sep 13, 2023
Author Interview: Jenni Nuttall (Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words)
Sep 06, 2023
Real Estate Boss Bitch of the Tudor Era, Bess of Hardwick
Aug 30, 2023
Author Interview: Yunte Huang (Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History)
Aug 23, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots: Bonus: Mary's sister-in-law, Elisabeth of Valois
Aug 16, 2023
Author Interview: Rachel Cantor (Half-Life of a Stolen Sister)
Aug 11, 2023
Author Interview: Craig Shreve (The African Samurai)
Aug 09, 2023
Author Interview: Jamila Ahmed (Every Rising Sun)
Aug 04, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Ten: Legacy
Aug 02, 2023
Author Interview: Genevieve Gornichec (The Weaver and the Witch Queen)
Jul 28, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots: Bonus: Clare Hunter (Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power)
Jul 26, 2023
Author Interview: Nikki M. Taylor (Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance)
Jul 21, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Nine: In My End Is My Beginning
Jul 19, 2023
Author Interview: Vanessa Riley (Queen of Exiles)
Jul 13, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Eight: Cat(te) And Mouse
Jul 12, 2023
Author Interview: Angela Saini (The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality)
Jul 07, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Seven: Lochleven
Jul 05, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots: Bonus: Jean Gordon, Highland Salt Entrepreneur
Jun 30, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Six: The Mermaid and the Hare
Jun 28, 2023
Author Interview: Claudia Cravens (Lucky Red)
Jun 23, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Five: A Dagger, A Cloak, A Chair, and a Length of Rope
Jun 21, 2023
Author Interview: Mattie Kahn (Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions)
Jun 16, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Four: The Jewelled Tortoise
Jun 14, 2023
The 18th-Century Trans Spy Who Fenced Her Way To Fame (Rerelease)
Jun 13, 2023
Author Interview: Rita Chang-Eppig (Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea)
Jun 09, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Three: The Marriage Question
Jun 07, 2023
Author Interview: Logan Steiner (After Anne)
Jun 02, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Two: A Progress North
May 31, 2023
Author Interview: Debra Magpie Earling (The Lost Journals of Sacajewea)
May 26, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Part One: Birth of a Queen
May 24, 2023
Author Interview: Jane Draycott (Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen)
May 19, 2023
Author Interview: Celia Bell (The Disenchantment)
May 17, 2023
Author Interview: Elizabeth Chadwick (The King's Jewel)
May 12, 2023
Queen Charlotte Was Not As Cool As On Bridgerton, I'm Sorry
May 10, 2023
Was Queen Charlotte Really Black?
May 05, 2023
Catherine de'Medici, Part Three
May 03, 2023
Author Interview: Valerie Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English)
Apr 28, 2023
Catherine de'Medici, Part Two
Apr 26, 2023
Author Interview: Vanessa Wilkie (A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England)
Apr 21, 2023
Catherine de'Medici: Part One
Apr 19, 2023
Author Interview: Max Wallace (After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller)
Apr 14, 2023
Author Interview: Paterson Joseph (The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho)
Apr 12, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary's Mother, Marie de Guise: Part Two
Apr 05, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary's Mother, Marie de Guise: Part One
Mar 28, 2023
The Gorgeous Legacy of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti
Mar 22, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary's Grandmother, Margaret Tudor: Part Two
Mar 15, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary's Grandmother, Margaret Tudor: Part One
Mar 08, 2023
Author Interview: Molly Greeley (Marvelous: A Novel)
Mar 01, 2023
Author Interview: Jac Jemc (Empty Theatre)
Feb 22, 2023
The Ancient African Queen Who Defeated the Romans
Feb 14, 2023
So This Asshole: Napoleon Bonaparte
Feb 08, 2023
Author Interview: Emran Iqbal El-Badawi (Queens and Prophets How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam)
Feb 01, 2023
Author Interview: Flora Fraser (Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora MacDonald)
Jan 25, 2023
Author Interview: Joanna Hickson (The Queen's Lady)
Jan 18, 2023
So This Asshole: Charles Dickens Was A Terrible Husband
Jan 11, 2023
The 16th-Century Jewish Woman Who Ran A Pepper Empire
Dec 21, 2022
International, part 39: Chinese Pirate Queen, Zheng Yi Sao
Dec 14, 2022
International, part 38: Empress Cixi: Final Years (pt 2/2)
Dec 07, 2022
International, part 37: China's Empress Cixi (pt 1/2)
Nov 30, 2022
International, part 36: Ancient Iranian Warrior Queen Artemisia I of Caria
Nov 23, 2022
Author Interview: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos (The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd)
Nov 16, 2022
Author Interview: Kit Heyam (Before We Were Trans)
Nov 09, 2022
International, part 33: Manuela Sáenz: Post-Revolution (pt 2/2)
Nov 02, 2022
International, part 32: Manuela Sáenz: Revolutionary (pt 1/2)
Oct 26, 2022
International, part 31: Lola Montez and the Gold Rush (part 2/2)
Oct 19, 2022
International, part 30: Irish Grifter Lola Montez (pt 1/2)
Oct 11, 2022
International, part 29: Queen Min Takes Over The Kingdom (pt 2/2)
Oct 05, 2022
International, part 28: Korea's Queen Min Surprises Everyone (pt 1/2)
Sep 28, 2022
Author Interview: Sarah Horowitz (Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It)
Sep 21, 2022
International, part 26: Empress Sisi: Final Years (3/3)
Sep 14, 2022
International, part 25: Empress Sisi's Unhappy Marriage (pt 2/3)
Sep 07, 2022
International, part 24: Empress Sisi: Teen Horse Girl (pt 1/3)
Aug 31, 2022
International, part 23: Hortense Mancini's Sisters (pt 6/6)
Aug 27, 2022
International, part 22: Hortense Mancini's Lasting Legacy (pt 5/6)
Aug 17, 2022
International, part 21: Hortense Mancini Invents Champagne (pt 4/6)
Aug 10, 2022
International, part 20: Hortense Mancini Becomes the King's Mistress (pt 3/6)
Aug 03, 2022
International, part 19: Hortense Mancini's Escape (pt 2/6)
Jul 27, 2022
International, part 18: Hortense Mancini, Child Bride (pt 1/6)
Jul 20, 2022
International, part 17: Kristina of Sweden, Final Years (pt 4/4)
Jul 13, 2022
International, part 16: Kristina of Sweden is a Freelance Queen (pt 3/4)
Jul 06, 2022
International, part 15: Kristina of Sweden Yeets The Crown (pt 2/4)
Jun 29, 2022
International, part 14: Kristina, The Queer Swedish Monarch (pt 1/4)
Jun 22, 2022
International, part 13: The Trans Spy
Jun 15, 2022
Author Interview: Tracy Dawson (Let Me Be Frank: Women Who Dressed Like Men To Do Shit They Weren't Supposed To Do)
Jun 08, 2022
International, part 12: The Drama Queen of England (Who Was Married To A Gay Man)
Jun 01, 2022
Tits Out Brigade Qs and As, part two
May 25, 2022
Tits Out Brigade Qs and As, part one
May 18, 2022
International, part 11: Catalina de Erauso Meets the Pope (pt 3/3)
May 11, 2022
International, part 10: Catalina de Erauso Herds 20,000 Llamas (pt 2/2)
May 04, 2022
International, part 9: Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun (pt 1/3)
Apr 27, 2022
International, part 8: Njinga vs. Colonizers (pt 2/2)
Apr 20, 2022
International, part 7: Queen Njinga's Rocky Road To The Throne (pt 1/2)
Apr 13, 2022
International, part 6: Hürrem Sultan, Sultana Era (pt 2/2)
Apr 05, 2022
International, part 5: Hürrem Sultan: From Slavery To Queen (pt 1/2)
Mar 30, 2022
International, part 4: Mexico's Notorious La Malinche
Mar 23, 2022
International, part 3: The Muslim Pirate Queen of Morocco
Mar 16, 2022
International, part 2: Portugal's doomed lovers
Mar 09, 2022
International, part 1: The Disabled Woman Who Ruled Ancient Kashmir
Mar 02, 2022
Author Interview: Shelley Puhak (The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World)
Feb 23, 2022
Movie Discussion: Shakespeare In Love (1998)
Jan 26, 2022
The Scandalous Saga of Sweden's Pirate Princess Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa
Dec 15, 2021
Author Interview: Lucy Jago (A Net for Small Fishes)
Nov 17, 2021
La Voisin, The French Abortionist Tried As A Witch
Oct 28, 2021
Mary Shelley: The Goth Teen Who Wrote Frankenstein
Oct 20, 2021
Elizabeth Woodville, The English Queen Who Was Also (Maybe) A Witch
Oct 13, 2021
Your Favorite Royal's Favorite Royal: Fredegund, Part Three
Sep 29, 2021
Your Favorite Royal's Favorite Royal: Fredegund, Part Two
Sep 22, 2021
Your Favorite Royal's Favorite Royal: Fredegund, Part One
Sep 15, 2021
Women Trapped In Towers, part 8: The Lady In The Eyepatch
Jun 23, 2021
Women Trapped in Towers, part 7: England's Uncrowned Queen Sophia Dorothea
Jun 16, 2021
Women Trapped in Towers, part 6: The Real-Life Rapunzel
Jun 09, 2021
Women Trapped In Towers, part 5: Queen Margot's Wedding Massacre
Jun 02, 2021
Women Trapped In Towers, part 4: The Niece of Henry VIII
May 26, 2021
Women Trapped in Towers, part 3: The Mad Queen Who Lived With Ghosts
May 19, 2021
Women Trapped in Towers, part two: The Oldest Woman Executed for Treason
May 12, 2021
Women Trapped In Towers, part 1: The She-Wolf of France
May 05, 2021
Shakespeare's Rival Was A Bisexual Spy
Jan 06, 2021
Queen Elizabeth's Lookalike Younger Cousin And How She Stole The Queen's Man
Dec 23, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 9: Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven
Oct 28, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 8: Lady Mary Grey
Oct 21, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 7: Lady Katherine Grey, Countess of Hertford
Oct 14, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 6: Lady Jane Grey
Oct 07, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 5: Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk
Sep 30, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 4: Anne Askew
Sep 23, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 3: Catherine Parr
Sep 16, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 2: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Sep 09, 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part one: Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Sep 02, 2020
Pandemic Special: Milkmaids, Harem girls, and the History of the Smallpox Vaccine
May 19, 2020
Pandemic Special: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the English sweating sickness
May 06, 2020
Women Leaders, part 9: The Murderous Medieval Queen
Apr 22, 2020
Women Leaders, part 8: Queen Anne: Bisexual Icon
Apr 15, 2020
Pandemic Special: Eyam, The Plague Village
Apr 13, 2020
Pandemic Special: Charles II de Valois And The Pillow Fight Of Death
Apr 10, 2020
Women Leaders, part 7: The Madness of Juana La Loca
Apr 08, 2020
Pandemic Special: Joan Of England: The Princess And The Plague
Apr 06, 2020
Women Leaders, part 6: Genocidal Warrior Queen, Isabella I
Apr 01, 2020
Women Leaders, part 5: Almost-Queen Matilda
Mar 25, 2020
Women Leaders, part 4: Killing Vikings With Murder Bees
Mar 18, 2020
Women Leaders, part 3: Boudica (Literally) Burned London Down
Mar 11, 2020
Women Leaders, part 2: Ancient Rome's Most Murderous Woman
Mar 04, 2020
Women Leaders, part 1: Cleopatra Was That Bitch
Feb 26, 2020
So This Asshole: Count Cagliostro: A Messy Diva Who Lived For Drama
Feb 05, 2020
Women Behaving Badly, part 6: The Super Secret Spy
Dec 11, 2019
Women Behaving Badly, part 5: Mary Toft Pulled (Several) Rabbits (Out Of Her Vagina)
Dec 04, 2019
Women Behaving Badly, part 4: Elizabeth Báthory Bathed in Blood (Not Really)
Nov 27, 2019
Women Behaving Badly, part 3: She Stole Marie Antoinette's Necklace
Nov 20, 2019
Women Behaving Badly, part 2: She Poisoned Her Enemy In Jail
Nov 13, 2019
Women Behaving Badly, part 1: Caroline of Brunswick, Rebel of the Regency
Nov 06, 2019
Introducing Vulgar History
Sep 01, 2019