Sieges, sieges and more sieges! Turns out there's more to Malta than just seiges, but there are a lot of them. Janina and Emma discuss knights, crusades, mother goddesses and endless, interminable wars. 

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Episode #54 - What's the History of Malta?

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

Episode #60 - How Smelly Was the Past?

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

Episode #61 - Did Jesus Really Exist?

*Reuploaded*

This episode we talk political philosophy, chaos, revolutions and war crimes and the messy path to human rights theory.

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Episode #62 - Where Did The Idea Of Human Rights Come From?

Who were the Illuminati? Did they cause revolutions all over the world, or were they just a bunch of nerds? Are philosophers to blame for everything? And did the French make books out of the skins of those they guillotined? 

Show Notes at https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-66-did-the-illuminati-cause-the-french-revolution

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Episode #66 - Did the Illuminati Cause the French Revolution?

Where did the idea that Victorians were all repressed weirdos come from? Is it true? Did they cover their piano legs for modesty? What's going on? 

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Episode #67 - Why Do We Think The Victorians Were Prudes?

We're back, and better than ever! 
This time, Emma and Janina will be answering a few questions about everyone's favourite nordic seafaring pirate raiders, the Vikings! 

Were the Vikings the ISIS of the 9th century?
Were the Vikings criminal outcasts from their homelands?
Did we like Assassin's Creed: Valhalla?

Tune in to find out!

Episode #68 - What's the Deal with Vikings, Part 1

Emma and Janina are back behind the mast of the longship! This time, we're discussing sagas, eddas, and other various mythological titbits.

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Episode #69 - What's The Deal With Vikings, Part 2

What's "The Great Masculine Renunciation?" 
Who was Beau Brummell?
Why are men's clothes so boring now?

Episode #70 - When Did Men's Clothes Get So Boring?

Emma and Janina investigate the mystery of wild children, and whether any of them were actually raised by olves.

Episode #71 - What's the Deal with Wild Children?

Episode #72 - What Was So Great About Alexander?

Caligula is a 1979 film made by pornographers, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Sir John Gielgud, and Peter O'Toole. It's also completely bananas. Join Emma (seen it dozens of times) and Janina (not seen it before) as they discuss this scandalous and notorious historical film.

Episode #73 - Caligula (1979)

This time, Dr Emma Southon and Janina Matthewson take a deep dive into matriarchal societies in classical and pre-history, did they really exist?

Episode #74 - What's The Deal With Matriarchal Societies In History?

Put on your gown and get ready to enter high society, as Emma and Janina walk you through the bizarre world of Debutantes, Balls, and "The Season"

Episode #75 - On Debutantes, Balls, and "The Season"

In 60CE, Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, led a violent uprising of unprecedented scale that tore across the southeast of Britannia, burning London and shocking the Roman world. But what's the real story? Was she real? Was she a literary construct? How are our modern conceptions of Boudica affected by the Victorians and Elizabethans?

Episode #76 - The Story of Boudica

How did the various states that've existed on the British Isles/North Atlantic Archipelago coalesce, fracture, and coalesce over and over until it became the country we know today? A thousand years of history, all in just over an hour!

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Episode #77 - Why Is The UK "United"?

Janina's on a bit of a break, but history never sleeps, so Emma is joined by acclaimed podcaster HR Owen for a deep dive into perhaps one of the most dramatic families in history, the Ptolemys.

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Episode #78 - The Ptrouble With Ptolemys, Part 1 (feat. HR Owen)

Emma is joined by HR Owen once again to discuss the most dramatic family in Classical Egypt!

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Episode #79  - The Ptrouble With Ptolemys - Part 2! (Feat. HR Owen)

Willkommen in Österreich! Emma is joined by History Is Sexy producer and Austria Correspondent Oliver to have a look at a story that's captured Austrian hearts for a hundred years, the life of Empress Elisabeth.

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Episode #80 - What's The Deal With Empress Elisabeth?

Graham and Ali from Rex Factor are here and we're talking about England's most consequential Queen Consorts, and all the skulduggery she got up to!

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Episode #81 - History is Rexy! Anne Boleyn (feat. Rex Factor)

... and were they really so dark?

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Episode #82 - What Makes The Dark Ages "Dark"?

The most devious, murderous cut-throat family of renaissance Italy.. or misunderstood victims of slanderous propaganda? Emma and Janina take a look at one of Italy's most infamous families, their rise, and fall.

Episode #83 - The Borgias

Who are some of the most badass saints? What were their lives like? What's a "desert father"? Find out all of this and more!

Episode #84 - Badass Saints

Dormice? Sow's Uterus? What on earth did the Romans eat? Join Emma and Janina for a culinary odyssey through the world of Roman Food.

Episode #85 - What Did The Romans Eat?

How big of a dickhead was Napoleon III, anyway? 

Episode #86 - Napoleon III

Join Dr Emma Southon and Janina Matthewson as they examine the impact of Roman conquest, both on the conquered peoples and how we view Rome in the modern world.


The tintinnabulum: 
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Monty Python: 
https://goo.gl/8ouUh3

Animated map of growth of the Roman Empire 
https://goo.gl/2vvRDV

Pliny 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pliny-the-Elder

Episode #1: What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

Join Dr Emma Southon and Janina Matthewson as they attempt to untangle one of history's big questions: What was world war one all about? 

British anti-German propaganda: http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/intense-british-anti-german-propaganda.html?m=1

Stefan Zweig's The World Of Yesterday: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-world-of-yesterday/stefan-zweig/anthea-bell/9781906548674

Episode #2: What Was World War One All About?

This week, Emma and Janina have a go at unravelling one of the more tricky questions submitted by listeners: What's the deal with antipopes?

"Habemus Papam/We Have A Pope": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456472/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Episode #4: What's The Deal With Antipopes?

Murderesses! Bloodbaths! Wicked rulers! Cruel sadists! 

In this week's episode, Emma and Janina examine the horrible stories of some the nastiest and most bloodthirsty women in history.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode features graphic descriptions of torture and murder that some listeners might find upsetting.

Episode #6 - History's Horrible Women

This week our question is: "When In Rome, What Did The Romans Do?"
Join Emma and Janina as they take a closer look into the daily lives of Roman citizens, both at work and play.

Featuring:
Sad lions! 🦁
Seneca complaining about everything! 👴
Would you want to be buried with your colleagues? ☠️
Roman comedy! 🎤
Checking out your friends equipment in the bath! 🛀

Episode #7 - When In Rome, What Did The Romans Do?

History is Sexy is a podcast presented by historian Dr Emma Southon and writer Janina Matthewson answering listener questions about history. What did the Romans do for us? Where did marrying for love come from? What was world war one all about? Produced and edited by Oliver Kealey. Theme music by Ketsa.

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