Transgender & Non-Binary Royals & Nobles

Transgender & Non-Binary Royals & Nobles

Up next

The Windsor Beauties - 10 Women of the Restoration Court

I'm at Hampton Court Palace in the Communication Gallery to look at a very special collection of paintings, the Windsor Beauties. These portraits immortalize 10 woman said to be the most stunning members of the restoration court. They exude elegance, confidence, and more than a h ...  Show more

Historic Royals with Tattoos

Tattoos have a long and colorful history across the world, and are an important part of many cultures. While 1 in 3 Americans have at least 1 tattoo today, western culture still sees the art form as counter culture, risque and rebellious. You might be shocked if you learned that ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Introducing Tides of History
Tides of History

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, said Mark Twain. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the modern world: history ebbs and flows over the centuries, driven by great tides of economic, social, political, religious, and cultural change that shap ...

  Show more

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

Throughout history, it's mostly been queer men who were persecuted under the historical sodomy laws, but the Tudor period saw a spike in women being tried under it.


Why was this? And why was it mostly happening in what is modern day Belgium and Netherlands?


  Show more

The Rise of Cleopatra
The Ancients

Famed across the ages and around the world - everyone knows the name Cleopatra. But how did she become one of the most infamous women in history?


Born in 69BCE, a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Hellenistic Egypt, Cleopatra VII lived a tumultuous life. Within<stro ...

  Show more

SYMHC Classics: Alan Turing, Codebreaker
Stuff You Missed in History Class

This is a revisit of a Sarah and Deblina episode on Alan Turing, who conceived of computers decades before anyone was building one. He also acted as a top-secret code breaker during World War II. Despite his accomplishments, he was prosecuted as a homosexual by the British gov ...

  Show more