Episode #63 - "Did A Girl From Cork Become a Moroccan Empress?" And Other Stories
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy People who's lives turned out to involve things no one could have predicted. Show notes: historyissexy.com/show-notes/cqcz3d5vh0ftaryie0kdkbw8s5ht7g
28 Okt 20211h 7min
Episode #62 - Where Did The Idea Of Human Rights Come From?
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy *Reuploaded* This episode we talk political philosophy, chaos, revolutions and war crimes and the messy path to human rights theory. Show notes, merch and contact form at www.historyissexy.com
14 Okt 20211h 19min
Episode #61 - Did Jesus Really Exist?
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Did a real human man called Jesus actually live and was he really crucified or did the church make the whole thing up? Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-61-did-jesus-really-exist
30 Sep 20211h 14min
Episode #60 - How Smelly Was the Past?
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Was the past stinky? Were medieval peasants covered in poo like Monty Python? Did people really piss out of windows like in Blackadder? Were the streets of medieval London rivers of animal guts and dung? Or were the people of the past just like us? Let's find out! Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-60-how-smelly-was-the-past
2 Sep 20211h 12min
Episode #59 - How Big a Dickhead Was Oliver Cromwell?
We debate Oliver Cromwell and whether, massacres and puritanism aside, he was really such a bad guy. Show notes at historyissexy.com/show-notes/0pd9rhjo7tx1caqc6baqevdinck1y3
19 Aug 20211h 29min
Episode #58 - Were the Amazons Real?
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy Was there really an all female tribe of warrior women in the ancient world? Did they cut off one boob? Why would they do that? Emma and Janina discuss the evidence. Show notes: https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-58-were-the-amazons-real
5 Aug 20211h 10min
Episode #57 - History's Greatest Escapes
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy The greatest escapes in history, or; how we learned the most tried and true escape methods. Show notes and merch available at https://historyissexy.com/
22 Jul 20211h 9min
Episode #56 - What's The History of Timbuktu?
Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexy A continuation of the last episode on Arabic libraries and centres of learning, today we visit West Africa and learn how Timbuktu became a focus of Islamic scholarship and learning. Show notes historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-56-whats-the-history-of-timbuktu
8 Jul 20211h 5min
