Vulgar History

    A feminist women's history comedy podcast hosted by Ann Foster. How do you solve a problem like Marie Antoinette?

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (with Sean Lusk, author of A Woman of Opinion)

  • The Art of Crime: Princess Caraboo (with Gavin Whitehead)

  • Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (with Bridget Quinn)

  • Madame Tussaud (with Gavin Whitehead)

  • Ann Is Writing A Book: Rebel of the Regency: The Napoleon of it all

  • Marquis de Lafayette, part two (with Allison Epstein)

  • Marquis de Lafayette, part one (with Allison Epstein)

  • Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier of Saint-Georges (with Julian Ledford)

  • Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry aka Madame du Barry, part two (with Amanda Matta)

  • Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry aka Madame du Barry, part one (with Amanda Matta)

  • So This Goofball: Louis XIV

  • Boudica, Queen of the Iceni (Ann's Version)

  • Agrippina the Younger (Ann's Version)

  • Cleopatra Discussion (with Gina Berry)

  • Cleopatra VII (Ann's Version)

  • Ona Judge Staines aka Oney Judge, part two

  • Ona Judge Staines aka Oney Judge, part one

  • Peggy Shippen, part two

  • Peggy Shippen, part one

  • Nanye'hi aka Nancy Ward

  • Introducing BEEF with Bridget Todd

  • Peg Plunkett, part three (with Karyn Moynihan)

  • Peg Plunkett, part two (with Karyn Moynihan)

  • Peg Plunkett, part one (with Karyn Moynihan)

  • Sally Hemings, part two

  • Sally Hemings, part one

  • The Public Universal Friend (with Kit Heyam)

  • Deborah Sampson aka Robert Shurtleff (with Greta LaFleur)

  • Charlotte Badger (with Jennifer Ashton)

  • Constanze Mozart (with Kristin Franseen)

  • Marie-Josèphe Angélique

  • Author Interview: June Hur (A Crane Among Wolves)

  • Author Interview: Ella McLeod (author of The Map that Led to You)

  • Las Soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution (with Cristina Lumague)

  • Thanadelthur (with Rosalie Tsannie-Burseth)

  • Matoaka aka Pocahontas (with Lauren DeLeary)

  • Hatshepsut (with Gina Berry)

  • La Quintrala aka Catalina de los Ríos y Lísperguer (with Maria Marsilli)

  • Saint Margaret of Scotland (with E.K. McAlpine)

  • Anna May Wong (with Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll)

  • Author Interview: Flora Carr (Author of The Tower)

  • Claire Clairmont (with Lesley McDowell, Author of Clairmont)

  • The Queen of Sheba (with Princess O'Nika Auguste)

  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary (with Nneka D. Dennie)

  • Author Interview: Avery Cunningham (Author of The Mayor of Maxwell Street)

  • Author Interview: Vanessa Miller (Author of The American Queen)

  • Author Interview: Andrea Penrose (Author of The Diamond of London)

  • Lucy Percy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (Ann's Version)

  • Mary Toft (Ann's Version)

  • Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Ann's Version)

  • Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte (Ann's Version)

  • Frances Howard, Duchess of Somerset (Ann's Version)

  • Iṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn

  • Caroline of Brunswick (Ann's Version) (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Rachel (aka La Grande Rachel aka Mademoiselle Rachel aka Rachel Félix) (with Allison Epstein)

  • Brunhild of Austrasia (with Shelley Puhak)

  • Author Interview: Katherine Howe (A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself )

  • Mary Ann Bugg (with Meg Foster)

  • Author Interview: Emma Southon (A Rome Of One's Own: Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire)

  • Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl (with Lucy Hinnie)

  • Author Interview: John Guy and Julia Fox (Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe)

  • Empress Elisabeth of Russia (with Allison Epstein)

  • Louisa May Alcott (with Alice Rutkowski)

  • Author Interview: Denny S. Bryce (The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Goddaughter)

  • Author Interview: Heather Redmond (Death and the Sisters: A Mary Shelley Mystery)

  • Elagabalus (with Kit Heyam)

  • Author Interview: Rosie Harte (The Royal Wardrobe: A Very Fashionable History of the Monarchy)

  • The Four Marys

  • Author Interview: Jenni Nuttall (Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words)

  • Bess of Hardwick

  • Author Interview: Yunte Huang (Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History)

  • Elisabeth of Valois (with Leah Redmond Chang)

  • Author Interview: Rachel Cantor (Half-Life of a Stolen Sister)

  • Author Interview: Craig Shreve (The African Samurai)

  • Author Interview: Jamila Ahmed (Every Rising Sun)

  • There's Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Ten: Legacy (with Allison Epstein and Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Author Interview: Genevieve Gornichec (The Weaver and the Witch Queen)

  • There’s Something About Mary Queen of Scots: Bonus: Clare Hunter (Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power)

  • Author Interview: Nikki M. Taylor (Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance)

  • There's Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Nine: In My End Is My Beginning (with Allison Epstein)

  • Author Interview: Vanessa Riley (Queen of Exiles)

  • There's Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Eight: Cat(te) And Mouse (with Allison Epstein)

  • Author Interview: Angela Saini (The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality)

  • There's Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Seven: Lochleven (with Allison Epstein)

  • Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell (with Jennifer Morag Henderson)

  • There's Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Six: The Mermaid and the Hare (with Allison Epstein)

  • Author Interview: Claudia Cravens (Lucky Red)

  • There's Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Five: A Dagger, A Cloak, A Chair, and a Length of Rope (with Allison Epstein)

  • Author Interview: Mattie Kahn (Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions)

  • There’s Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Four: The Jewelled Tortoise (With Allison Epstein)

  • Rerelease: La Chevalière d'Éon (with Maya Deane)

  • Author Interview: Rita Chang-Eppig (Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea)

  • There’s Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Three: The Marriage Question

  • Author Interview: Logan Steiner (After Anne)

  • There’s Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part Two: A Progress North

  • Author Interview: Debra Magpie Earling (The Lost Journals of Sacajewea)

  • There’s Something About Mary, Queen of Scots: Part One: Birth of a Queen

  • Author Interview: Jane Draycott (Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen)

  • Author Interview: Celia Bell (The Disenchantment)

  • Author Interview: Elizabeth Chadwick (The King's Jewel)

  • Queen Charlotte (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Queen Charlotte and Race (with Dr. Brooke Newman and Stacey Murrell)

  • Catherine de'Medici, Part Three (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Author Interview: Valerie Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English)

  • Catherine de'Medici, Part Two (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Author Interview: Vanessa Wilkie (A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England)

  • Catherine de'Medici: Part One (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Author Interview: Max Wallace (After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller)

  • Author Interview: Paterson Joseph (The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho)

  • Marie de Guise: Part Two (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Marie de Guise: Part One (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Nefertiti (with Gina Berry)

  • Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: Part Two

  • Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: Part One

  • Author Interview: Molly Greeley (Marvelous: A Novel)

  • Author Interview: Jac Jemc (Empty Theatre)

  • Amanirenas, Queen of Kush (with Princess O'Nika Auguste)

  • So This Asshole: Napoleon Bonaparte (with Allison Epstein)

  • Author Interview: Emran Iqbal El-Badawi (Queens and Prophets How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam)

  • Author Interview: Flora Fraser (Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora MacDonald)

  • Author Interview: Joanna Hickson (The Queen's Lady)

  • So This Asshole: Charles Dickens

  • Doña Gracia Nasi

  • Zheng Yi Sao (aka Shi Yang aka Ching Shih)

  • Empress Dowager Cixi, part two

  • Empress Dowager Cixi, part one

  • Artemisia I of Caria

  • Sarah Kidd (with Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos)

  • Author Interview: Kit Heyam (Before We Were Trans)

  • Manuela Sáenz, part two

  • Manuela Sáenz, part one

  • Lola Montez, part two (with Allison Epstein)

  • Lola Montez, part one (with Allison Epstein)

  • Queen Min, part two

  • Queen Min, part one

  • Marguerite Steinheil (with Sarah Horowitz)

  • Empress Sisi, part three (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Empress Sisi, part two (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Empress Sisi, part one (with Lana Wood Johnson)

  • Keeping Up With Les Mazarinettes

  • Hortense Mancini, Duchess de Mazarin: part five

  • Hortense Mancini, Duchess de Mazarin: part four

  • Hortense Mancini, Duchess de Mazarin: part three

  • Hortense Mancini, Duchess de Mazarin: part two

  • Hortense Mancini, Duchess de Mazarin: part one

  • Kristina of Sweden, part four

  • Kristina of Sweden, part three

  • Kristina of Sweden, part two

  • Kristina of Sweden, part one

  • La Chevalière d'Éon (with Maya Deane)

  • Author Interview: Tracy Dawson (Let Me Be Frank: Women Who Dressed Like Men To Do Shit They Weren't Supposed To Do)

  • Anne of Denmark

  • Tits Out Brigade Qs and As, part two

  • Tits Out Brigade Qs and As, part one

  • Doña Catalina de Erauso: Part Three (with Allison Epstein)

  • Doña Catalina de Erauso: Part Two (with Allison Epstein)

  • Doña Catalina de Erauso: Part One (with Allison Epstein)

  • Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Part Two

  • Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Part One

  • Hürrem Sultan (aka Haseki Sultan, aka Roxelana): Part Two

  • Hürrem Sultan (aka Haseki Sultan, aka Roxelana): Part One

  • Malintzin (aka Doña Marina, aka La Malinche)

  • Sayyida al-Hurra ibn Banu Rashid

  • Inês de Castro

  • Rani Didda of Kashmir

  • Author Interview: Shelley Puhak (The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World)

  • Vulgar History presents: Vulgarpiece Theatre: Shakespeare In Love (1998)

  • Princess Cecilia of Sweden (Tits Out Festive Holiday Super Spectacular)

  • Author Interview: Lucy Jago (A Net for Small Fishes)

  • Catherine Monvoisin aka La Voisin

  • Mary Shelley: Goth Queen Mom Friend

  • Halloween Super Special: Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England

  • Fredegund, Queen of Neustria: Part Three

  • Fredegund, Queen of Neustria: Part Two

  • Fredegund, Queen of Neustria: Part One

  • Doña Ana de Mendoza de la Cerda y de Silva Cifuentes, Princess of Eboli, Duchess of Pastrana

  • Sophia Dorothea of Celle

  • Lady Arbella Stuart

  • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (aka Queen Margot)

  • Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

  • Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Castile and León

  • Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

  • Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England and France

  • Christopher Marlowe (with Allison Epstein)

  • Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Lady Mary Grey

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Lady Katherine Grey, Countess of Hertford

  • Lady Jane Grey, or, How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

  • Anne Askew

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Catherine Parr

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk

  • How To Lose A Queen In Nine Days: Mary Tudor, Queen of France

  • Pandemic Special: Milkmaids, Harem girls, and the History of the Smallpox Vaccine

  • Pandemic Special: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the English sweating sickness

  • Joanna of Naples

  • Anne, Queen of Great Britain

  • Pandemic Special: Eyam, The Plague Village

  • Pandemic Special: Charles II de Valois And The Pillow Fight Of Death

  • Juana I of Castile

  • Pandemic Special: Joan Of England: The Princess And The Plague

  • Isabella I of Castile

  • Empress Matilda

  • Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians

  • Boudica, Queen of the Iceni

  • Agrippina the Younger

  • Cleopatra VII

  • Vulgar History Presents: So This Asshole: Count Cagliostro

  • Lucy Percy Hay, Countess of Carlisle

  • Mary Toft

  • Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed

  • Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte

  • Frances Howard, Duchess of Somerset

  • Caroline of Brunswick

  • Introducing Vulgar History

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