The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages

By James BoultonSociety & Culture Education History

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The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages episodes

May 07, 2023 5.07 Roxelana (2) From 'sold meat' to Sultana
Roxelana picks a fight with a rival and has another killed. She was playing for keeps.

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31 min
April 16, 2023 5.06 Roxelana (1) Revolutionary monogamy
Sold into slavery at a young age, Roxelana would tear up the rule book in the Imperial harem in Istanbul.

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29 min
April 02, 2023 5.05 Lady Nijo: The confessions of a concubine
After losing her parents at a young age, Lady Nijo is sent to be the concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa. But if he expected her to knuckle under, he would be sorely disappointed.

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40 min
March 19, 2023 5.04 Servilia (2) The mother of an honourable man
As the Roman Republic entered its death spiral - Servilia would have to choose between her son and the man she loved.

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35 min
March 06, 2023 5.03 Servilia (1) Lover of Caesar
The decline and fall of the Roman Republic is one of history's great epics - with a colourful cast of characters that have become household names. All of them men. All, except one.

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36 min
February 19, 2023 5.02 Aspasia of Miletus: Notorious woman of Athens
The teacher of Socrates and the lover of Pericles - Aspasia of Miletus came to Athens with nothing, but left quite a legacy.

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39 min
February 12, 2023 5.01 Rulers' Mistresses: History's Other Women
In the fifth season of the Other Half Podcast, we are looking at Rulers' Mistresses: a cross-cultural story of extra-marital love and lust, bringing ten women, who so often existed in the shadows, into the light.

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15 min
October 30, 2022 4.26 Pascalina Lehnert (2) The powerful virgin
Pascalina helps propel Pius XII to the papacy, becoming his right-hand woman and the most powerful woman in Vatican history.

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35 min
October 16, 2022 4.25 Pascalina Lehnert (1) Dealing with devils
Pascalina would come a long way from her family farm in Bavaria, becoming the right-hand woman to a man who would become Pope just as Europe slipped towards war.

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34 min
October 02, 2022 4.24 Christina of Sweden (4) The uninvited pest
Scandal was never far from Christina but she is about to get embroiled in her most serious one to date.

Pontifacts: Women and Female Power in the Vatican with The Other Half Podcast

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41 min

About The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages

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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women…