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This week, we're revisiting a classic Vulgar History episode. Agrippina the Younger was also the sister, wife/niece, and mother of three different Roman emperors and also one of the villainesses in the 1976 BBC miniseries I, Claudius!
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Reference:
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon (now available in paperback!)
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There was no way I could revisit the Cleopatra episode and score without getting Gina Berry's assistance! She was a guest on our epic Nefertiti and Hatshepsut episodes, and now she's here to talk all things Cleo. As ever, when the two of us get together, it will be at LEAST 2 hours of episode.
I recommend listening to the Cleopatra episode first before diving into this discussion, but you do you.
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Reference:
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
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Remember in early 2020 when we were doing the season Women Leaders and the Men Who Whined About Them? This was the first episode of that series, now remastered by Cristina for improved audio quality! Plus, a special new intro and extro!
Coming up next week: we revisit Cleo's score with a very special guest.
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Intro ends: 04:07
Ad break: 34:54
Story ends: 1:13:58
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Reference:
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
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Ona Judge Staines, also known as Oney Judge, was born in 1774 into enslavement at Mount Vernon, the plantation owned by George and Martha Washington. She travelled with the Washingtons to New York City and Philadelphia, where she would eventually escape. In this week's episode, we hear about how she made that happen.
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Story starts: 02:15
Ad break: 49:53
Story ends: 1:10:09
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The episode image is an interpretive panel from Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia PA.
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Reference:
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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Ona Judge Staines, also known as Oney Judge, was born in 1774 into enslavement at Mount Vernon, the plantation owned by George and Martha Washington. She travelled with the Washingtons to New York City and Philadelphia, where she would eventually escape.
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Story starts 04:39
AD BREAK: 28:30
Story ends: 54:20
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Reference:
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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The episode image is an interpretive panel from Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia PA.
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Learn more about the Brister English Project, a non-profit passionate about connecting American descendants of chattel slavery with their ancestry.
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GoFundMe to support The Edinburgh Seven Fringe show
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In the second part of Peggy Shippen's scandalous saga, we see Philadelphia throw one of its classic riots, and she and Benedict visit a variety of places including my own hometown in Nova Scotia!
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Intro ends/story starts 04:07
Ad break: 30:11
Story ends/outro starts 1:01:04
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Reference:
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-era Women and the Radical Men They Married, by Nancy Rubin Stuart
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Peggy Shippen was living a Revolutionary-era brat summer when she married the worst possible person, and things went buck wild from there. Featuring: most of the characters from Hamilton. And: the city of Philadelphia.
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Intro ends/story starts: 03:47
AD BREAK: 21:11
Story ends/outro starts: 47:30
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Reference:
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-era Women and the Radical Men They Married, by Nancy Rubin Stuart
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Nanye'hi, also known as Nancy Ward, was a prominent leader and diplomat of the Cherokee Nation during the American Revolution.
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Intro over/story starts: 04:06
Ad Break: 36:05
Story ends/outro starts: 1:11:04
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References:
Finding Your Roots “Fathers and sons”
Nancy Ward: American Patriot or Cherokee Nationalist? by Michelene E. Pesantubbee
Nanyehi's Experience of the American Revolution by Lillie Burke
Women in World History entry by Deborah Jones
Woman of Many Names by Debra S. Yates
Cherokee Nation: A History of Survival, Self-Determination, and Identity by Dr. Bob Blackburn, Dr. Duane King, and Dr. Neil Morton
Cherokees and British Sign Treaty of Whitehall
Nanyehi (Nancy Ward) episode of the Long May She Reign podcast
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This week on Beef, the brilliant 17th century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dares to defy the Catholic Church with her scholarship and searing wit. Pick up Dr. Stephanie Kirk's fascinating book Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico.
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All good stories must come to an end, and so it is with Peg Plunkett. Guest co-host Karyn Moynihan (co-host of Double Love: The Sweet Valley High Podcast) joins us to wrap up this instantly iconic trilogy.
Karyn has also designed an incredible Peg-themed merch design! Pick up a Peg Plunkett tee, mug, sticker, pin and more at:
Teepublic (better shipping for US people)
Redbubble (better shipping for non-US people)
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Intro ends/story begins: 04:38
Ad break: 31:24
Story ends/outro starts: 1:06:37
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References:
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore by Julie Peakman
Memoirs of Mrs. Margaret Leeson by Peg Plunkett aka Mrs. Leeson
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This week continues (but does not conclude) the tits out story of Irish icon, Peg Plunkett. Our guest is, again, Karyn Moynihan: Irish person, co-host of Double Love: The Sweet Valley High Podcast, and designer of several Vulgar History merch items.
Next week: the thrilling conclusion of the Peg saga. Herman, my pills!
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Ads: 23:08
Story ends/outro starts: 46:16
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References:
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore by Julie Peakman
Memoirs of Mrs. Margaret Leeson by Peg Plunkett aka Mrs. Leeson
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We're headed to Ireland this week to talk about Peg Plunkett, a scandalous and influential figure in 18th-century Dublin. We're joined this week by Karyn Moynihan: Irish person, co-host of Double Love: The Sweet Valley High Podcast, and designer of several Vulgar History merch items.
Pace yourselves, because this is part one a multi-week extravaganza! Herman, my pills!
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Intro Ends/story begins: 05:59
AD BREAK: 23:08
Story ends/Outro Starts 46:08
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References:
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore by Julie Peakman
Memoirs of Mrs. Margaret Leeson by Peg Plunkett aka Mrs. Leeson
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Last time, we looked at Sally's family background and pre-Paris life. This time, we look at her return to Monticello from Paris, and what happened next.
0:00 Intro
04:55 Sally’s story begins
45:47 Ads
1:26:44 Extro
The image for this episode is from the multimedia installation The Life of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson's plantation home, Monticello. Learn about the exhibit here.
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As mentioned in the intro, here is the link for Ancestry's new resource: Articles of Enslavement on Ancestry
And here is more information about (and the recipe for) James Hemings's Mac and Cheese
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References:
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Life of Sally Hemings (Monticello.org)
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Sally Hemings was born in 1773 to enslaved mother Elizabeth Hemings and Elizabeth's enslaver, John Wayles. She grew up alongside her mother and siblings in enslavement in Virginia at around the same time as the American Revolution.
In part one, we learn about Sally's family and childhood and how a series of coincidences led her to live in Paris just before the French Revolution.
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0:00 Intro
10:34 Sally’s story begins
36:16 Ads
1:06:15 Extro
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The image for this episode is from the multimedia installation The Life of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson's plantation home, Monticello. Learn about the exhibit here (spoilers for part two of this podcast, if you don't already know her story!)
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References:
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Life of Sally Hemings (Monticello.org)
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This season on Vulgar History, we're investigating How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? To do so, we're looking at the lives of people who lived during the revolutionary era of the 18th century.
In honour of Pride Month, we're talking this week about the trans historical figure The Public Universal Friend. The Friend, aka PUF, grew up as a Quaker in late 18th-century Pennsylvania. Were they also a cult leader? Listen and find out!
We're joined this week by three-time returning guest Kit Heyam to talk about this fascinating historical figure.
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Organizations to Support:
Kit recommends supporting TransActual (UK)
Ann recommends supporting:
Point of Pride (US)
Trans Care+ (Canada)
The Trevor Project (US)
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References:
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Public Universal Friend essay by Amanda Carson Banks from Women in World History
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This season on Vulgar History, we're investigating How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? To do so, we're looking at the lives of people who lived during the revolutionary era of the 18th century.
In honour of Pride Month, this week we're talking about trans historical figure Deborah Sampson/Robert Shurtleff. Deborah/Robert fought in the American Revolution in a sort of Mulan scenario and their gender presentation has lots to discuss.
Greta LaFleur, associate professor of American studies at Yale University, is our guest this week to help explain Deborah/Robert's story and offer an introduction to the American Revolution.
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Organizations to Support:
Greta recommends supporting the Trans Justice Funding Project (US)
Ann recommends supporting:
Point of Pride (US)
Trans Care+ (Canada)
The Trevor Project (US)
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References:
The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America by Greta LaFleur
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, co-edited by Greta LaFleur
Deborah Sampson essay by Harry M. Ward from Women in World History
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This season on Vulgar History, we're investigating the question How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? To do so, we're looking at the lives of women who lived during the revolutionary era of the 18th century.
This week, we're headed to New Zealand (via England and Australia) to learn how the Industrial and American Revolutions contributed to the adventurous life of a convicted thief named Charlotte Badger. This week's guest is Jennifer Ashton, author of Thief, Confict, Pirate, Wife: The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger.
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References:
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton
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This season on Vulgar History, we're investigating the question How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? To do so, we're looking at the lives of women who lived during the revolutionary era of the 18th century.
This week, Kristin Franseen joins us to discuss Constanze Mozart, best known as the wife and then widow of Amadeus Mozart.
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Learn about the Grove Music Online website of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Project
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Kristin's references:
Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover
1791: Mozart's Last Year by H.C. Robbins Landon
"Salieri's Cosi fan tutte" by Bruce Alan Brown and John Rice, Cambridge Opera Journal 8, no. 1
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life edited by Robert Spaethling
A Mozart Pilgrimage by Vincent and Mary Novellos
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It's season seven! This year we're investigating the question How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marie Antoinette? Marie Antoinette was famously executed during the French Revolution. To understand how that happened means understanding the French Revolution, which means understanding the spirit of revolution that occurred around the world in the 18th century. This is why the first part of season seven is sub-titled Age of Revolution.
Things kick off with the story of Marie-Josephe Angelique, an enslaved Black Portuguese woman who may or may not have burned down Montreal in 1734.
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References:
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal by Afua Cooper
Wikipedia
https://globalnews.ca/news/211853/montreal-to-honour-slave-marie-josephe-angelique-with-park-name/
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-hanging-of-angelique-book-review
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marie-joseph-angelique
https://this.org/2017/03/27/new-film-takes-a-much-needed-glance-into-canadas-uncomfortable-past-with-racism-and-slavery/
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Today's guest, June Hur, is the author of historical novels that read like K-dramas. Her latest, A Crane Among Wolves, is set in Joseon-era Korea during the reign of tyrant King Yeonsan.
Learn more about June and her books at junehur.com
Buy a copy of A Crane Among Wolves from bookshop.org
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