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Join sex historian Dr Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush. What were the Victorians really like behind closed (bedroom) doors? How did the Black Death favour women in medieval England? And what was Caesar like in the sack? Join Kate as she bed-hops around different time periods; from ancient civilisations, to the middle ages, to renaissance and early modern...right up to now. You’ll laugh, you’ll wince, and you’ll ask yourself how much has actually changed. Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - a podcast from History Hit. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe . <p style='color:grey; font-size:0.
History Hit hosts Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society, a history show with 440 episodes published.
Poor Catherine Howard. She was smart, intelligent and undeniably beautiful, but ultimately no match for the vicious Henry VIII. She was certainly a victim but was she totally blameless? Joining Kate today is the always-f
Pablo Picasso's impact on the art world was sensational, but what impact did he have on the people around him? His relationship history contains some problematic moments, to say the least, so we are asking if you can - o
After the Russian Revolution in 1917, sex work was a prime example of what capitalism did to society. Under communism, sex work would no longer need to exist in society. Spoiler: it very much still existed. How wer
Beautiful women are always causing trouble in history, and perhaps none more so than Helen of Troy. She's the daughter of Zeus and a human mother, after all. With the new film Odyssey hitting the big screen, find out all
Picture a dragon and its dragon slayer. What do you imagine? It's likely going to be a giant, scaly, fire-breathing beast and a rugged knight with a massive sword. However, throughout history we have amazing myths of wom
With the Fourth of July and America's 250th around the corner we wanted to revisit an episode and take a look back at the presidents from the past what we know about their sex lives. Which president was well-endowed and
Why did 200 people queue to give blood in the San Diego summer heat on 16 July 1983? During the AIDS crisis, many people living with HIV developed severe anaemia as a result of the disease and the treatments available at
Marlene Dietrich was unapologetic in her love of sex, and she had a lot of it. She took Hollywood by storm in the 1930s and slept with some of tinsel town's most famous men and women. What made her so unique and create s
Why on earth would anyone make a perilous journey across wilderness and snow covered mountains, all because of a bit of gold? This isn't Lord of the Rings, it's the Klondike Gold Rush, when an estimated hundred thousand
Mata Hari was a dancer and courtesan who was executed in 1917 for being a spy during the First World War. How did she get involved in such dangerous business? Was she really a mastermind spy who used her sexuality to gai
Has Burlesque always meant the same thing? Where did it come from? And how has it changed? Kate is joined by Dr Marissa Vigneault, Associate Professor of Art History at Utah State University, to find out more about how b
Madam du Barry's life was remarkable: from rags, to riches, to... revolution. And she pi**ed off Marie Antoinette along the way, too. How did this courtesan from a poor background make it to be royal mistress in Versaill
What really went down in the Garden of Eden? Was there an apple? Was there a snake? Was the 'original sin' all that bad? To answer these questions and more, Kate is joined by Dr Dylan Johnson, biblical scholar and histor
In this new mini-series, we're exploring and celebrating women whose sexuality was used to define them. First up is Roman Empress Theodora. How did "Theodora from the brothels", as she was known, rise to be the most powe
Sex in the distant past is often thought about with all the fun taken out of it. Pleasure must have been a part of the sex lives of women and men in the past, so what evidence do we have to back this up? What evidence of
How do you not only lose your own reputation and career, but also tank the reputation and freedoms of your entire industry? Today we’re exploring the first real Hollywood scandal, when actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was a
It’s got many names: giving head, going down, eating out, dining at the Y, muff diving. Why has cunnilingus been stigmatised and feared so consistently throughout history?! When the Kama Sutra is turning its back on it,
Who was Lettice Knollys? And why was she expelled from Elizabeth I's court? Kate is joined by Estelle Paranque in this episode to find out how a man came between loving cousins, and explore whether getting with your frie
There will be giggling and gasping galore! And that's just when you listen to this episode! Dan Snow quizzes Kate on all things female pleasure. When was the first recorded female orgasm? Has there always been an orgasm
What do you have to do wrong to be specifically named in a law? In the 14th Century, one of the mistresses of King Edward III found out. So who was Alice Perrers? Kate is joined by the one and only Eleanor Janega to find
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