There's more to history than what you learned in high school, and we're going to skip to the good stuff together. Listen on Spotify. Available on. Report content on Spotify. Episode The Monster Mash. Dirty Sexy History Nov 08, Episode 4. Warm Bodies. The Life and Times of a Renaissance Anatomist. Gabrielle Falloppia is credited with inventing the condom. Aug 08, Ancient history has traditionally been dominated by the lives of great men, while ancient women are confined to the margins or omitted altogether.
In The Missing Thread, award-winning classicist Dr Daisy Dunn pulls these women out of the shadows and puts them center stage, where they belong. This week, we talk about the lives of ancient women: love, marriage, extra-marital relationships, divorce, sex, contraception, same-sex relationships, and even dildos made of bread?!
We also talk about women leading armies, ruling nations, and the very first woman to win at the Olympics, long before women were even allowed to compete. Jul 25, Tea in Colonial America. This week we talk to Dr James Fichter about tea consumption, bans, the protests like the Boston Tea Party in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.
Jul 10, Jun 26, Abortion in Early Modern Italy. At the same time, the GOP is calling for a nationwide ban on abortion. But what happens when abortion is banned? It was overturned only three years later in This week, Jess talks to Dr John Christopoulos about Early Modern family planning and the difference between Church doctrine and the sex lives of real people.
We cover bans, common practice, extramarital sex, same-sex relationships in convents, and more. Jun 12, The History of Nostalgia. Nostalgia can be both good and bad—at its best, it manifests in historical reenactment, vintage fashion, and mid-century modern furniture. At its worst, it can drive regressive political policies, fascism, and book bans. In this thoughtful episode, Jess talks to Dr. Agnes Arnold-Forster about historical ideas about nostalgia, nostalgia as a medical condition, and the surprising link to a poltergeist that took the form of a talking mongoose called Gef.
