Frances Howard, Duchess of Somerset (Ann’s Version)

December 20, 2023

This week is a re-release of season 1, episode 2 of Vulgar History, telling the scandalicious saga of OG tits out icon/ our patron saint, Frances Howard.

This rerelease includes a new edit of the original recording and a bunch of new updates about Frances, two other people ALSO called Frances Howard, what is Bobby Duds doing in this narrative, and: Lettice Knollys! I also reassess Frances’s score on the Fredegund Memorial Scandilicious Scale.

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Iṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn

December 17, 2023

Iṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn was a 12th-century Muslim woman who lived in the Levant. She lived during the Frankish Wars aka The Crusades, and made a name for herself through her bravery and diplomacy.

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Call for de-escalation and ceasefire (for US people)

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Take action to call for a ceasefire (for US, UK, Canada, and international people)

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Booklist to learn more about the history of the Levant

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Donate to MSF (Doctors Without Borders)

Donate to World Central Kitchen

Donate to PCRF (the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund)

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Podcasts mentioned:

The History of the Crusades

The Islamic History Podcast

PreOccupation: A Not-So-Brief History of Palestine

Head On History

Historias Unknown

Jewitches

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References:

Wikipedia

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

Queens of Jerusalem: The women who dared to rule by Katherine Pangonis

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/crusades

Saladin episode of You’re Dead To Me podcast

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Caroline of Brunswick (Ann’s Version) (with Lana Wood Johnson)

December 13, 2023

Revisiting where it all began! This week is a re-release of season 1, episode 1 of Vulgar History, telling the saga of the rebel of the regency: Caroline of Brunswick!

This rerelease includes a new edit of the original recording and one hour of new content, INCLUDING a reappraisal of Caroline’s score on the Fredegund Memorial Scandilicious Scale.

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References:

Caroline and Charlotte: Regency Scandals by Alison Plowden

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Rachel (aka La Grande Rachel aka Mademoiselle Rachel aka Rachel Félix) (with Allison Epstein)

December 6, 2023

My name is Ann, joined this week by Allison, to talk about a tits out women who only needs one name: RACHEL.

References:

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Francaise by Rachel H. Brownstein

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09571558211045052

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rachel-eliza-rachel-felix

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6068-felix-elisa-rachel

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As mentioned in the episode, here are images of Rachel’s tomb.

And here is Wikimedia Commons’s page of images of Rachel, almost entirely in various togas, her signature look.

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Brunhild of Austrasia (with Shelley Puhak)

November 29, 2023

Remember awhile ago, we did three episodes about the iconic Queen Fredegund? And she was so iconic we re-named the scandilicious scale after her? WELL

By popular request, we’re back to look at Fred’s arch-nemesis, Brunhild of Austrasia. To keep my #TeamFred energy from overwhelming things, our guest this week is Shelley Puhak, author of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Formed The Medieval World aka, the person who introduced Fred and Brun into all our lives!!

Learn more about Shelley and her work at shelleypuhak.com.

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Here’s the Radegund book Shelley spoke about. Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen by E.T. Dailey (published by Oxford University Press).

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Author Interview: Katherine Howe (A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself )

November 22, 2023

Today we’re joined by Katherine Howe to talk about her pirate-y new novel, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself.

Learn more about Katherine and her work at katherinehowe.com

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Mary Ann Bugg (with Meg Foster)

November 15, 2023

This week, it’s a Foster duet as we’re joined by Dr. Meg Foster (no relation) to talk about Australia’s legacy of bushrangers, and her recent book Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers. If you don’t know who the bushrangers were, don’t worry, that’s the first thing Meg explains.

Our discussion focuses on Mary Ann Bugg, a mixed-race Worimi woman often left out or misrepresented in bushranger sagas.

Learn more about Meg and her work at hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-meg-foster

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Author Interview: Emma Southon (A Rome Of One’s Own: Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire)

November 8, 2023

Today, we’re joined by Emma Southon to talk about lesser-known women of Roman history and her new book, A Rome of One’s Own: Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire.

Learn more about Emma and her work at emmasouthon.com

Listen to Emma’s podcast History Is Sexy historyissexy.com

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Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl (with Lucy Hinnie)

November 1, 2023

It’s a slightly belated Halloween super special/ continuation of the Mary, Queen of Scots saga this week! We’re talking about Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl: older sister of one of the Four Marys and also a witch who was never arrested or punished for it.

Our guest is Lucy Hinnie, an Early Career Researcher, Wikimedian and digital humanist. She is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a Digital Skills Wikimedian for Wikimedia UK.

Learn more about Lucy and her work at lucyrhinnie.co.uk

Get all the tea about Lucy’s time working at Holyrood Palace in The Vulgar History Aftershow on Patreon!

Eleanor Janega’s blog about why you are (probably) not the granddaughter of the witches they couldn’t burn

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References:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fleming-160

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fleming,_Countess_of_Atholl

Queen Mary’s Women: female relatives, servants, friends and enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosalind K. Marshall

The Scottish witch-hunt in context edited by Julian Goodare

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Author Interview: John Guy and Julia Fox (Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe)

October 25, 2023

Historians and authors Julia Fox and John Guy join us this week to talk about their new co-written biography, Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage that Shook Europe.

Learn more about Julia and her work at juliafox.co.uk

Learn more about John and his work at johnguy.co.uk

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