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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Join sex historian Dr Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush. What were the Victorians really like behind closed (bedroom) doors? How did the Black Death favour women in medieval England? And what was Caesar like in the sack? Join Kate as she bed-hops around different time periods; from ancient civilisations, to the middle ages, to renaissance and early modern...right up to now. You’ll laugh, you’ll wince, and you’ll ask yourself how much has actually changed. Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal &…

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Betwixt The Sheets explores one of medieval Christianity's strangest devotional obsessions: the Holy Prepuce, or Jesus' foreskin. Host Kate is joined by Dr. James White, a historian of late medieval Europe at the University of Alberta specializing in religious devotion and the body, to investigate how this relic…

Worth it if you're interested in medieval history, religious material culture, the weird corners of Christian devotion, or how relics shaped medieval society and belief.

Betwixt The Sheets examines Nazi obsession with birth rates and family policy, specifically the Lebensborn program. The episode is hosted with historian Lisa Pine, a Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, lending credible academic…

Worth it if you want an academic overview of Nazi family policy and the Lebensborn program from a credentialed historian, and you're comfortable with mature historical content on reproduction and eugenics.

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