History Is Sexy

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October 14, 2021 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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1 hr 20 min
September 30, 2021 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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1 hr 15 min
September 02, 2021 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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1 hr 13 min
August 19, 2021 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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1 hr 30 min
August 05, 2021 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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1 hr 11 min
July 22, 2021 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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1 hr 10 min
July 08, 2021 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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1 hr 6 min
June 24, 2021 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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1 hr 8 min
June 10, 2021 Episode #54 - What's the History of Malta?
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Sieges, sieges and more sieges! Turns out there's more to Malta than just seiges, but there are a lot of them. Janina and Emma discuss knights, crusades, mother goddesses and endless, interminable wars.
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1 hr 23 min
May 20, 2021 Episode #53 - Ra Ra Rasputin Part III
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The final part of our Rasputin series features Boney M, Anastasia, and Rasputin's alleged dick!
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1 hr 8 min

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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…