All Episodes

Episode 4.8. Warm Bodies. The Life and Times of a Renaissance Anatomist

Episode 4.7. Love and War: The Secret Lives of Ancient Women

Episode 4.6. Tea in Colonial America

Episode 4.5. The Undesirables: How Britain Locked Away a Generation

Episode 4.4. Abortion in Early Modern Italy

Episode 4.3. The History of Nostalgia

Episode 4.2. Josephine McCarty: Abortionist, Spy, Mother of the Year?

Episode 4.1. High Priestess and Empress: Florence Farr and Ellen Terry

Episode 3.21. Dancing With Myself: The History and Science of Masturbation

Episode 3.20. “Fallen Women” in Victorian Poetry

Episode 3.19. Adult Toys

Episode 3.18. Mythbusting Corsets

Episode 3.17. Men’s Sexual Health in Early Modern England

Episode 3.16. Renaissance Beauty: Cosmetics, Poison, and Plastic Surgery

Episode 3.15. The Oneida Community: Progressive Utopia or Polyamorous Cult?

Episode 3.14. Fairies, Entities, Ghosts, and Gods: Rebel Folklore with Icy Sedgwick

Episode 3.13. Black Sam Bellamy and the Golden Age of Piracy

Episode 3.12. Big Cult-Leader Energy. The Legacy of Madame Blavatsky

Episode 3.11. Fight Like Hell: Women and the American Labor Movement

Episode 3.10. Snuff, Smelling Salts, and Sulfur: Scent in 18th Century Fiction

Episode 3.9. Inside the Chicken Ranch, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Episode 3.8. The American Plan

Episode 3.7. Psychotropic Drugs in Nineteenth Century France

Episode 3.6. Naming Gotham: The People Behind NYC’s Place Names

Episode 3.5. George Remus: The Bootleg King and the Women Who Brought Him Down

Episode 3.4. When Whales Attack

Episode 3.3. Marriage, Dependence, and Divorce in Revolutionary America

Episode 3.2. The HMS Black Joke and the Battle Against the Slave Trade

Episode 3.1. A Haunted History of Invisible Women

Episode 2.20. Myth America with Dr Kevin Kruse and Dr Julian Zelizer

Episode 2.19. Sex and Social Protest in 18th Century Pornography

Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag

Episode 2.17. Pink Triangle Legacies: From Imprisonment to Gay Liberation

Episode 2.16. Pamela Colman Smith and the Golden Dawn

Episode 2.15. Queer Suffragists with Dr. Wendy Rouse

Episode 2.14. Monstrous Women with Dr Nicole Dittmer

Episode 2.13: Founding F*ck Buddies with Dr. Cassandra Good

Episode 2.12. Radium Cosmetics with Lucy Jane Santos

Episode 2.11. The Gender Outlaws of 19th Century France

Episode 2.10. Misinformation Nation: 18th Century Fake News with Dr Jordan Taylor

Episode 2.9. Illegitimate Birth in the 18th Century with Dr Kate Gibson

Episode 2.8. Women’s Mental Institutions of the 19th Century

Episode 2.7. The Invention of Gender with Dr. Sandra Eder

Episode 2.6. The Gilded Edge with Dr Catherine Prendergast

Episode 2.5. The Women’s House of Detention

Episode 2.4. Before We Were Trans: Gender Nonconformity in History with Dr Kit Heyam

Episode 2.3. The Real Stede Bonnet with Jeremy Moss

Episode 2.2: Secrets and Scandals of Regency Britain with Violet Fenn

The Facemaker with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

Episode 33: Gunpowder Toothpaste. 10 Surprising Victorian Beauty Trends

Episode 32: “The Poor Whores’ Petition” and the Shrove Tuesday Riots of 1668

Episode 31: Lola Montez Part Two. When Lola Met Ludwig

Episode 30: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Claude Duval

Episode 29: The Legend of Lola Montez (Part 1)

Episode 28: Historical Themes in Heavy Metal

Episode 27: Ariadne Unraveled

Episode 26: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Episode 25: “Female Husbands.” LGBTQ+ Unions in England through the Georgian Era

Episode 24: Cocaine, Coca-Cola, and the Contraceptive that Wasn’t

Episode 23: The Monster Mash

Episode 22: Byron’s Fault. An Introduction to Vampires with Violet Fenn

Episode 21: Daniel Mendoza and the Modern Art of Boxing

Episode 20: Death in the Walls. How Arsenic Green Poisoned Victorian Britain

Episode 19: 40 Elephants, with special guest Sarah MacLean

Episode 18: The Catacombs of Paris

Episode 17: The Malleus Maleficarum. Witch Hunts in Late Medieval Europe

Episode 16: Witchcraft, Part One. Women’s Vices

Episode 15: Heroin and the Spanish Flu

Episode 14: Porn. Politics and Censorship in 19th Century England

Episode 13: Perfect Love and Sacred Sin. The Spiritual Side of Historical Kink

Episode 12: Dead Sexy. Tuberculosis and Other Beauty Tips

Episode 11: Dreams of Love: Franz Liszt and la Dame aux Camelias

Episode 10: The Necessary Evil. How Sex Work Built London’s Churches

Episode 9: Pumpkin Spice Laudanum

Episode 8: The Storming of the Bastille

Episode 7: In Love and Dirt: Cross-Class Romance in 19th Century England

Episode 6: The Transgender Priests of Cybele

Episode 5: Chasing Ghosts in 19th Century Paris. Horror Tourism in the City of Light

Episode 4: The Sickness of Naples. Syphilis and the Invention of the Modern Condom

Episode 3: The Problematic History of BMI, plus Deadly Diet Drugs of the 1930s

Episode 2: Hurts So Good! 19th Century Dominatrix Theresa Berkley

Episode 1: Contraception in History, from Pomegranates to Pennyroyal

Dirty Sexy History (Trailer)