Podcasts

The First Tools

What if the first technology was just a stone?

Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emma Finestone, - Curator and the Robert J. and Linnet E. Fritz...

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

On a summer day in Sarajevo in 1914, a young man fired two rounds of his pistol in the middle of the street, killing a Royal couple... He didn't...

Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle

What was Anne Boleyn like before she became the most controversial queen in English history? Can the rooms and gardens at her childhood home...

The Assassination of Trotsky

This is the true story of the plot to kill Stalin's greatest enemy. It involves ice axe, a bloody study in Mexico City, and a betrayal years in...

Challenging the Pope: The Avignon Papacy

Who would pick a fight with the Pope?? Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega dive into the explosive clash between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of...

Who was the first 'Lesbian'?

Was Sappho queer? Or was this Ancient Greek poet just really really good friends with women?

Today on Betwixt the Sheets, Kate is joined by...

Shays' Rebellion: An Honorable Rebellion?

Shays’ Rebellion has long been taught as a dangerous uprising, one that risked shaking the newly founded United States of America. But by...

Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress

How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire?

From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her...

Titanic's Biggest Myths Debunked

Is it true that third-class passengers were locked below decks? Or that more lifeboats would have saved more lives? Did the band really play as...

Churchill's Secret Army

Trap doors under toilets, hidden radio rooms in the back of wardrobes, secret bases behind waterfalls....Dan investigates an extraordinary network...

Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles

A legend of the great Greek city of Athens, Themistocles rose from obscurity to save ancient Greece and helped shape one of the greatest naval...

Sex Work in the American Revolution

Where the American War of Independence raged, the camp followers...followed.

Among them were sex workers, for both the American and British...