Ancient History Fangirl
Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy
4.6from 1,268 ratings
- 337
- Episodes
- 90
- Transcribed
- 1,268
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About Ancient History Fangirl
An ancient history podcast run by two Millennial women. Misbehaving emperors, poison assassins, mythological mayhem; it’s like if Hardcore History met up with My Favorite Murder in the ancient world, with a heavy helping of booze and laughter.
- Publisher
- Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Feb 2018
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
90 of 337 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
RE-RELEASE: Ghosts of Wrangel Island
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Virgil the Virgin and the Creation of the Authoritarian State
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can Christian Nationalists Be Normal in a Democracy? (With Brad Onishi)
Inside a recent episode
RE-RELEASE: Ghosts of Wrangel Island
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So perfectly adapted that when the last Ice Age ended, so did they. No woolly mammoths have walked the Earth for the last 10,000 years. Or did they? It turns out that the last mammoths didn't disappear 10,000 years ago. Wait, no, is this going to be like that crazy thing about like the building of the Spanx last season? No, this is real, Jen. This is real. You're not giving me pseudo-history, you promise? I promise. It's not pseudo-history. It turns out that the last mammoths didn't disappear 10,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths still existed on this earth when the pyramids were being built, after Scarabrae was abandoned, When the Indus Valley civilization was thriving for thousands of years after their extinction in the rest of the world, a small population of woolly mammoths hung on on a remote island in the Arctic called Wrangell Island, which is just such an evocative name. […]
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- Brad Onishi
- Eva Leigh
- Emma Southon
- Jennifer Saint
- Douglas Boin
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,876
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 456 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 812 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 99
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