Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination
A minor aristocrat, Charlotte Corday could have lived an ordinary life in Normandy in the 18th century. Instead, she took it upon herself to kill the prominent leader of the Jacobin revolutionaries - ...
5 Dec 202330min
Caroline Norton Balancing the Scales of Justice
CW: Spousal abuse, miscarriage. In the UK in the early 19th century, married women didn't exist as their own legal entities; they were extensions of their husbands. Caroline Norton's abusive husband ...
28 Nov 202329min
The Princess Who Wrestled for Her Future
Khutulun was a 13th century Mongolian princess born in the war-torn years after Genghis Khan's massive empire began falling apart at the seams. She fought valiantly at her father's side to defend his ...
21 Nov 202338min
The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities
Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor, was an obsessive collector — of art, of rare and expensive artifacts, of scientific equipment, of natural curiosities. (He claimed he had a siren's jaw and a phoenix...
14 Nov 202351min
The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, was one of the most famous and glamorous women of the 20th century. But her life was lived in view of, and in response to, the tabloid scandals ...
7 Nov 202337min
Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch
After marrying the Duke of Gloucester, Eleanor Cobham became one of the wealthiest and post powerful women in England. She and her husband were a heartbeat away from being King and Queen, and the prom...
31 Okt 202331min
The Thrift-Shop Pope
After Vatican II, many traditionalist Catholics around the world decided that the heresies of the Pope meant that the papal throne was actually empty. For one member of that group, the only solution w...
24 Okt 202335min
The Cage of the Ottoman King
When Mehmed III, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died, his young son Ahmed took the throne. Tradition dicrated that Ahmed should have killed any rivals to the throne, specifically his half-brother, Must...
17 Okt 202341min
