Épisodes

  • S2 Ep18: How To Avoid Consumption

    S2 Ep18: How To Avoid Consumption
    Nov 13 2025
    It's winter season in 1839 and you're trying to survive. What would be your reading of choice? Probably "How To Prevent Consumption", with bleakly useless advice and wild theories.
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    31 min
  • S2 Ep17: Buster Keaton, The Exclusive Property of MGM

    S2 Ep17: Buster Keaton, The Exclusive Property of MGM
    Oct 23 2025
    Famous for his dead-pan comedy style, Buster Keaton was one the kings of slapstick comedy. But behind his success hid battles with production studios, his wife, and his addiction. In today’s episode, we’re reading Keaton’s memoir “My Wonderful World of Slapstick”.
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    35 min
  • S2 Ep16: The Private (?) Life of Marie Antoinette

    S2 Ep16: The Private (?) Life of Marie Antoinette
    Oct 9 2025
    There is so much myth and speculation around who Marie Antoinette was as a person, that it’s really helpful to have historical texts from the era – like today’s “Memoirs of Madame Campan” - of people that really knew her. But how reliable are her observations?
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    41 min
  • S2 Ep15: The Mass Female Protest of Ancient Rome

    S2 Ep15: The Mass Female Protest of Ancient Rome
    Sep 25 2025
    Probably the farthest we’ve ever gone in our podcast time machine – today we’re in ancient Rome, in a crowd of very upset women, as described by Livy in “History of Rome”.
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    35 min
  • S2 Ep14: I’d Rather Drown Than Submit To a Man

    S2 Ep14: I’d Rather Drown Than Submit To a Man
    Sep 4 2025
    A feminist – bordering on misandrist – text from 1592? Written by a woman? Count me in! In today’s episode, we’re reading Moderata Fonte’s “The Merits of Women”, translated and edited by Virginia Cox.

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    45 min
  • S2 Ep13: The OG Edwardian Cat Lady

    S2 Ep13: The OG Edwardian Cat Lady
    Aug 21 2025
    While owning cats as pets goes back to antiquity and beyond, the existence of self-proclaimed “cat people” is a result of the popularization of the hobby in the 19th and 20th centuries. Today we’re reading Francis Simpson’s “Cats and All About Them” from 1902 to see what Edwardian cat ownership looked like.
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    41 min
  • S2 Ep12: The Victorian Anti-Rizz Guide

    S2 Ep12: The Victorian Anti-Rizz Guide
    Aug 7 2025
    In today’s episode we’re reading a rulebook on how to be an absolutely insufferable Victorian f*ckboy, by none other than the courtesan and dancer Lola Montez. Her “The Art of Fascinating” from 1858 should be a guide to anyone setting up a Tinder profile.
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    25 min
  • S2 Ep11: Woman's Thoughts on Women

    S2 Ep11: Woman's Thoughts on Women
    Jul 24 2025
    Not all women involved with the feminist movement were necessarily radical. Today we’re reading “Woman’s Thoughts on Women” by Dinah Craik, a British writer with an unusual life story, and discovering her views on female work, female friendships, and old women’s clothes.
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    29 min