CLASSIC: Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing Scandal of Victorian England

CLASSIC: Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing...

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CLASSIC: Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)

Nowadays most people know the pirates depicted in fiction bear little resemblance to real-life, historical pirates. Few actually buried any treasure, and fewer still lived in secretive island hideouts -- however, in at least one case, the truth appears stranger than fiction. Join ...  عرض المزيد

The Outlaw Origins of NASCAR: From Moonshine to Racing

NASCAR! This thoroughly American racing organization is huge in the United States -- and has a lot of international gearhead fans, as well. However, as Ben, Noel and Max discover in today's episode, this multibillion-dollar industry has a fascinating, ridiculous, and criminal pas ...  عرض المزيد

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38. Fanny Davies - Uncommon Thief
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

In this new series Lucy Worsley switches her attention from Lady Killers to Lady Swindlers - con women, thieves and hustlers. This is where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back in time to revisit the audacious and surpris ...  عرض المزيد

Women Behaving Badly, part 2: She Poisoned Her Enemy In Jail (Rerelease)
Vulgar History: Regency Era

This week is a re-release of season 1, episode 2 of Vulgar History, telling the scandalicious saga of OG tits out icon/ our patron saint, Frances Howard. This rerelease includes a new edit of the original recording and a bunch of new updates about Frances, two other people ALSO c ...  عرض المزيد

Case 32: Grace & Kathleen Holmes
Casefile True Crime

<div>After migrating from England to Australia after World War II, the Holmes family were looking forward to embracing a safer and higher quality of life. They’d experienced trauma and hardship during the war years and were ready to start afresh. </div><div>
That dream was sha ...
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Close Readings: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray
The LRB Podcast

Thackeray's comic masterpiece, 'Vanity Fair', is a Victorian novel looking back to Regency England as an object both of satire and nostalgia. Thackeray’s disdain for the Regency is present throughout the book, not least in the proliferation of hapless characters called George, ye ...  عرض المزيد