What's your favorite history? Each interview on this podcast begins with this one question. Our guests are people who like history and get really excited about a particular time, place or person from our distant or not so distant past. The jumping off point is the place where our they became curious then entered the rabbit hole into discovery through scholarly research, pop culture, documentaries, other podcasts...We look at history through the filter of other peoples eyes.https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=965986
Armchair Historians
Claim This Podcastby Anne Marie Cannon
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Podcast Overview
What's your favorite history? Each interview on this podcast begins with this one question. Our guests are people who like history and get really excited about a particular time, place or person from our distant or not so distant past. The jumping off point is the place where our they became curious then entered the rabbit hole into discovery through scholarly research, pop culture, documentaries, other podcasts...We look at history through the filter of other peoples eyes.https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=965986
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Recent Episodes
April 14, 2026
Sonja Mongar on Writing Cora Paul Back into History
Send us Fan Mail What happens when one forgotten diary, a trunk full of artifacts, and decades of research bring an erased woman’s story back into view? In this episode of Armchair Historians, I’m joined by writer, teacher, and my former multimedia writing mentor, Sonja Mongar, to talk about her powerful work on Cora Paul — a real woman whose life unfolded between Victorian expectations and modern independence in the early American West. Sonja shares how Cora’s 1907 diary, family photographs,...
April 7, 2026
Molly Houses and Queer Georgian London with Marcus James
Send us Fan Mail Armchair Historians Show Notes Marcus James — Queer History of London / Molly Houses Episode Summary In this episode of Armchair Historians, Anne Marie Cannon talks with Marcus James, founder of Queer London Tours, about the hidden and deeply human history of queer London. Their conversation focuses especially on the world of Molly Houses in Georgian London—clandestine spaces where queer men found community, joy, ritual, performance, and belonging in a time of danger and repr...
March 31, 2026
Gigi Berardi on Bianca’s Cure, Bianca Capello, and Women Alchemists in Renaissance Florence
Send us Fan Mail Author Gigi Berardi joins Anne Marie Cannon to discuss Bianca’s Cure, a historical novel inspired by Bianca Capello, Renaissance Florence, women’s hidden knowledge, and the search for a cure for malaria. Together, they explore alchemy, medicine, power, and the ways women carved out influence in a world designed to constrain them. Learn more about Gigi Berardi: https://gigiberardi.com/ Bianca’s Cure: https://gigiberardi.com/biancas-cure/ https://shewritespress.com/product/bi...
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