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61. Let's Get Divorced
Feb 21, 2023Getting married is all fine and well, but what happens when you (historically) want to dissolve your relationship, well my friends question no more as Katie takes you through Celtic Ireland, Medieval ...
60. The Impotence Trials
Feb 07, 2023In Medieval Europe, especially France and England, it was basically illegal not to have sex with your spouse! In order to ensure that a marriage could be dissolved the couple had to go through the Tri...
59. The Brides in the Bath Murders
Jan 31, 2023While the Great War rages on across the Channel, tragedy strikes on a chilly afternoon in London where a newlywed is found dead in the bathtub, a mere day into her honeymoon. But not all is as it seem...
58. Coco Chanel - The Fascist Fashionista
Jan 24, 2023Coco 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...
57. Evelyn Nesbitt - The First Supermodel
Jan 12, 2023Evelyn 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 ...
56. Cleopatra - The Last Ruler of Egypt
Jan 03, 2023Queen 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, ...
Bittisode 012: Weird History of Christmas
Dec 15, 2022There 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...
55. Dame Alice Kyteler - Ireland's First Witch
Dec 13, 2022Dame 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...
54. The War at Christmas
Dec 05, 2022What 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...
53 - The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Oct 18, 2022In 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...