Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Hosted by Kate · History Hit
4.9from 6,274 ratings
- 463
- Episodes
- 275
- Transcribed
- 6,274
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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 & Society - a podcast from History Hit.History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe (https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- History Hit
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Mar 2022
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
275 of 463 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Get Ready With Marie Antoinette
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Lesbian Love Affair of 16th Century Scotland
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Debauched Were Roman Orgies?
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Get Ready With Marie Antoinette
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because if there's one piece of fashion Marie Antoinette is widely known for, it's her shoes. She loved a shoe. Yeah, she did love a shoe. I believe at the height of her everything, she was being sent by her court cobbler like seven pairs of shoes a week. That was a lot of shoes. It's a lot of shoes. So shoes at the time were centrally lasted, which meant that there wasn't a left and a right. The shoes were just one shape. So they can be a little bit uncomfortable. Yeah. They have what's called a Louis heel, which is this very specific sort of kitten heel shape, which were made of wood, just covered in leather or silk. […]
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