Vulgar History Podcast
1) Cleopatra VII
As the first part of our new series "Women Leaders And The Men Who Whined About Them," we take it all the way back to the first century BCE and the legendary Egyptian Pharaoh Cleopatra VII. Growing up...Show More
2) Disabled Regency Era Artist Sarah Biffen
Watch this as a video Sarah Biffen was one of the most sought-after portrait artists of the Regency Era, painting members of the royal family, including the King. How did a farmworker's daughter born...Show More
3) Regency Era Spy Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Grace Dalrymple Elliott was a courtesan in London, a spy in French Revolutionary Paris, the lover of two of history's most annoying Princes, and finally, a memoir-writer in the Regency Era. Our guest ...Show More
4) Elizabeth Bathory: Serial Killer?
Elizabeth Bathory is currently in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific female serial killer. But was she? Author Shelley Puhak's new book The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and ...Show More
5) The Brontë Sisters: Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë
Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë were all accomplished novelists. Charlotte's famous work is Jane Eyre, and Emily's is Wuthering Heights. But how did three sisters all become popular authors at the s...Show More
6) Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (part two)
Last time, we discussed the first part of Georgiana's life. This time, we get into all the illegitimate children of it all, with bonus visits to Revolution-era Paris and also Earl Grey tea time. With ...Show More
7) Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (part one)
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire is a key person connecting the French Revolution era to the Regency Era, because she was besties with Marie Antoinette, wore poufs, and then became besties with the Re...Show More
8) A Regency Era Sapphic Schoolteacher Scandal
In the Regency Era, reputation was all many working-class women had. When Edinburgh schoolteachers Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie were accused of sapphic behaviour by their student Jane Cumming, they l...Show More
9) Queen Marie-Louise Christophe: A Black Regency Era Queen
It's our Regency Era, which means we had to get Vanessa Riley (current Queen of Regency era fiction) on the podcast. This week we're revisiting out conversation from 2023 about her novel Queen of Exil...Show More
10) Jacquotte Delahaye: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean
The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black, and women! And Jacquotte Delahaye was the most famous of them all. Author Vanessa Riley's new novel, Fire Sword and Sea, is a sweeping, immersive saga ...Show More