58. Coco Chanel - The Fascist Fashionista
Coco Chanel, the creator of the couture French fashion house was a style icon, an astute business women and also a Nazi collaborator... From the poorhouse to the cream of Parisian high society, Gabrie...
24 Jan 202356min
57. Evelyn Nesbitt - The First Supermodel
Evelyn Nesbitt was the original "It" girl, she was THE Gibson Girl, the world's first supermodel and unsurprisingly like most women in history, a victim to the men who surrounded her. Listen today on ...
12 Jan 20231h 16min
56. Cleopatra - The Last Ruler of Egypt
Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last ruling member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, and perhaps the most famous. A woman who used her skills, knowledge and wits to align herself with powerful allies, ...
3 Jan 20231h 8min
Bittisode 012: Weird History of Christmas
There are some Christmas traditions that are weird, creepy or downright illegal... Some have fallen out of fashion (looking at you , Feast of the Ass) while others are probably better off gone. So jum...
15 Dec 202224min
55. Dame Alice Kyteler - Ireland's First Witch
Dame Alice Kyteler was the first woman to be officially charged for the crime of witchcraft in Ireland, and maybe all of Europe... Let Katie tell you all about the tale of Alice, the first witch of Ir...
13 Dec 202245min
54. The War at Christmas
What says historically festive ore than wartime at Christmas? Join Katie as she shares yuletide tales of truces, more truces and clandestine gifts... From that festive football game that may or may no...
5 Dec 202242min
53 - The Burning of Bridget Cleary
In the late 1800s Bridget Cleary was burned alive by her husband, was it because the "real" Bridget had been stolen by evil fairies and had been replaced by a changeling or was it because the you ng a...
18 Okt 20221h 6min
Bittisode 011: The Island that Despised Doing it!
Inis Beag, a small island off the coast of Galway, was an Irish island that was so repressed no-one got naked, even to bathe! The rural islanders were so isolated from the mainland that when the Swing...
29 Sep 202227min
