History Is Sexy
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.
Latest episodes
Nov 25, 2021 • 1h 17min
Episode #64 - What's the History of Alchemy?
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This week we explore the weird and wonderful world of alchemy, from ancient China to Isaac Newton.
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Oct 28, 2021 • 1h 7min
Episode #63 - "Did A Girl From Cork Become a Moroccan Empress?" And Other Stories
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People who's lives turned out to involve things no one could have predicted.
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Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 19min
Episode #62 - Where Did The Idea Of Human Rights Come From?
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*Reuploaded*
This episode we talk political philosophy, chaos, revolutions and war crimes and the messy path to human rights theory.
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Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 14min
Episode #61 - Did Jesus Really Exist?
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Did a real human man called Jesus actually live and was he really crucified or did the church make the whole thing up?
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Sep 2, 2021 • 1h 12min
Episode #60 - How Smelly Was the Past?
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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!
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Aug 19, 2021 • 1h 30min
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.
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Aug 5, 2021 • 1h 11min
Episode #58 - Were the Amazons Real?
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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.
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Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 9min
Episode #57 - History's Greatest Escapes
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The greatest escapes in history, or; how we learned the most tried and true escape methods.
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Jul 8, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode #56 - What's The History of Timbuktu?
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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.
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Jun 24, 2021 • 1h 7min
Episode #55 - Arabic Libraries
We talk about the great libraries of Baghdad and Cordoba. Includes a truly thrilling escape story that for some reason hasn't had a big budget HBO series made about it?
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