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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Saint Valentine, the ancient Roman rebel and martyr who has given his name to our modern romantic holiday.
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The book based on this popular podcast is almost out! Just in time for the book's release, historian and author Valorie Castellanos Clark has recorded an excerpt of a chapter. Amelio Robles Ávila is not covered in any other episode of the podcast, so to learn how his story ends, pick up a copy of Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries in bookstores starting March 5, 2024.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Kheir-ed-Din, better known in Anglophone countries as Barbarossa. He was a Corsair, or pirate, in the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th century--his tale is full of excitement on the high seas.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Saint Valentine, the ancient Roman rebel and martyr who has given his name to our modern romantic holiday.
Pre-order the Unruly Figures book now! Out March 5, 2024.
This podcast is sponsored by Audible. Get a free trial of Audible, including one free audiobook, by visiting audibletrial.com/unruly.
As always, you can get ad-free versions of the episode, and much much more on the Unruly Figures Substack: http://unrulyfigures.substack.com There, you can find transcripts of each episode, photos of each episode's subject, and behind-the-scenes goodies. So come join us!
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Owain Glyndŵr, the last Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Noor Inayat Khan, a princess, a children's story author, and an uncover agent for the British during WWII.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Alfred Carlton Gilbert, the man who saved Christmas.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Lepa Svetozara Radić, an icon of Nazi resistance and teenaged hero in the Balkans.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering Petra Herrera, the oft-forgotten cross-dress, bridge-destroying hero of the Mexican Revolution. She was wildly successful but never received any credit.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, the woman who peacefully took power for herself in ancient Egypt. She broke every rule of how royal women were supposed to behave and we still remember her for her incredible success almost 4,000 years later.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Castellanos Clark is covering the mad monk Rasputin, who is credited with singlehandedly destroying the Russian monarchy by sleeping with the Russian queen.
But did he though? We explore the legend and truth of Rasputin in this juicy episode.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the legendary pirate Princess Alfhild, who ran away from her betrothed to become a pirate with a gang of girls who also wanted to escape marriage.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the incredible life of Yasuke, the first known Black samurai in Japan.
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Welcome to season 3 of Unruly Figures! We have a couple of exciting changes to the show:
New backing music! Huge thanks to Danny Wolf of Wolf and Love for creating this! The Unruly Figures shop is now open! All merch is 15% off until September 10 2023 to celebrate--use code LAUNCH15This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the incredible--and artistic--life of Blanche Ames Ames, an artist, inventor, and women's rights activist in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Photo of Blanche courtesy of BCN Productions.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the rebellious life of Mekatilili wa Menza, a key figure in the grassroots fight against British colonization in Kenya.
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Cover art of Mekatilili from Google Arts & Culture.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the amazing life of Sarah Bernhardt, the incredible French actress of the nineteenth century. She was not only an impressive stage actress, she was also a great sculptor and a pioneer of modern celebrity.
Want to hear Bernhardt's ethereal and incredible voice?
Bernhardt reciting Racine in 1902: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKa7JleYqm8&ab_channel=theatrotv Bernhardt reciting La Samaritaine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4Y8fWYIJo&ab_channel=robertfellsThis podcast is sponsored by Audible. Get a free trial of Audible, including one free audiobook! Go to audibletrial.com/unruly to learn more.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the amazing life of Sylvia Rivera, an icon of queer history. She was at Stonewall (maybe), started the first activist group working for trans rights, and more.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the amazing life of Alan Turing, who you might remember as the computer genius that Benedict Cumberbatch played in The Imitation Game. In this episode, Valorie dives deep into the inspiration behind Turing's biggest breakthroughs in computing technology, the questions that occupied him after WWII, and the conspiracy theories which surround his death.
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This week, historian and host Valorie Clark is covering the amazing life of Hans Christian Andersen, who you might remember as the author behind "The Little Mermaid." Though Ariel and The Ugly Duckling are probably two of Andersen's most famous characters, he was an incredibly prolific writer who wrote hundreds of stories during his life. In this episode, Valorie tackles the myths he built around his childhood, his dark experience in school, and the intense debates around his sexuality.
Link to Anderson's early poem "The Dying Child" - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dying-child-2/
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