Vulgar History: Revolution
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 274
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Women Trapped In Towers, part 1: The She-Wolf of France
We're back! This season is themed: Women In Towers And the Assholes Who Sent Them There. And where else to begin than with the long, weird saga of Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482)! Her story has les twi…
01:03:37 |
Wed 05 May 2021
Shakespeare's Rival Was A Bisexual Spy
It's a super special!
Author Allison Epstein (A Tip For The Hangman) joins us to share the wildly interesting saga of Christopher Marlowe, the 16th century playwright/SPY. What was his deal, what's h…
01:07:20 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
Queen Elizabeth's Lookalike Younger Cousin And How She Stole The Queen's Man
Lettice Knollys (8 November 1543 – 25 December 1634) was the first cousin once-removed of Queen Elizabeth I (on the Boleyn side). Lettice was also basically the Queen's younger, prettier lookalike wh…
00:46:53 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 9: Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven
Anne Stanley (May 1580 – c. 8 October 1647) was a descendant of Mary Tudor through Eleanor Brandon. Following the death of the three Grey sisters, she became a potential heir to the English throne. S…
00:50:24 |
Wed 28 Oct 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 8: Lady Mary Grey
Lady Mary Grey (c. 1545 – 20 April 1578) was the youngest sister of Lady Jane Grey. Through her grandmother, Mary Tudor, she had a claim on the crown of England. Mary did her best to stay out of trou…
01:07:51 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 7: Lady Katherine Grey, Countess of Hertford
Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568), born Lady Katherine Grey, was the younger sister of Lady Jane "Nine Days Queen" Grey. Following the execution of her older …
01:27:51 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 6: Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537 – 12 February 1554) was kinda the first-ever woman to rule England, except she was technically a girl and technically sort of didn't actually rule? Hence this whole season-lon…
00:48:31 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 5: Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk
Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559), was an English noblewoman. As the daughter of Mary Tudor and niece of Henry VIII, she was of royal lineage and in the line of succe…
01:00:32 |
Wed 30 Sep 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 4: Anne Askew
Anne Askew (1521-1546) was one of the earliest-known female poets to compose in the English language, the first Englishwoman to demand a divorce, and wound up the only recorded woman to be tortured i…
00:40:25 |
Wed 23 Sep 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 3: Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr (1512-1548) is best known for surviving being the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII. She had three other husbands, one of whom was worse than even Henry; she was held hostage; she bro…
00:38:32 |
Wed 16 Sep 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part 2: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Katherine Willoughby de Eresby (22 March 1519 – 19 September 1580), later Katherine Brandon, then Katherine Bertie, was an English heiress, Protestant rebel, and overall total heroine. From a pretty …
00:50:34 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days, part one: Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Mary Tudor (9 October 1514 – 1 January 1515), not to be confused with Queen Mary I or Mary, Queen of Scots, was briefly Queen of France. She then had a secret marriage to her boyfriend, Charles Brand…
00:50:39 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
Pandemic Special: Milkmaids, Harem girls, and the History of the Smallpox Vaccine
Smallpox was a highly contagious, deadly disease which likely first appeared around the 3rd century BCE in Egypt. From then on, it followed trade routes and colonization, decimating populations in ma…
00:25:09 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Pandemic Special: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the English sweating sickness
From 1485 - 1551, England experienced several epidemics of a mysterious illness known only as the sweating sickness. Unlike other diseases that affected the very young, very old, and the poor, this o…
00:19:32 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Women Leaders, part 9: The Murderous Medieval Queen
Joanna of Naples (1326-1382) was Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily for thirty action-packed and highly scandilicious years. This story has it all: kidnappings! Revenge murders! Evil popes! Evil …
00:59:32 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Women Leaders, part 8: Queen Anne: Bisexual Icon
Anne I (1665 – 1714), best known as the main character of the movie The Favourite, was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland and then of Great Britain and Ireland for twelve years. Her life story is…
00:50:26 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
Pandemic Special: Eyam, The Plague Village
In 1665, the tiny English town of Eyam was beset by the same plague that was affecting London. Under the guidance of the town's reverend, the villagers agreed to quarantine themselves in order to pro…
00:21:17 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Pandemic Special: Charles II de Valois And The Pillow Fight Of Death
Charles II de Valois (1522-1545) was the third son of the French King Francis I. He died very young from an entirely preventable and ridiculous pillow fight related situation in the middle of a plagu…
00:23:48 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Women Leaders, part 7: The Madness of Juana La Loca
Juana I of Castile (1479-1555) was the third child of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. She's remembered now for being "Juana La Loca/Juana The Mad" but, in fact, that reputation was just …
00:52:51 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
Pandemic Special: Joan Of England: The Princess And The Plague
Joan of England (1335-1348) was the first known English person to die of the bubonic plague. She set out with a massive entourage from England to Castile to meet her betrothed, didn't listen to warni…
00:26:49 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
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