A history podcast emphasizing the fun stuff, like fighting and fornicating, with not so much on medieval farming techniques. Each episode we ask a big question and sometimes nearly succeed in answering it. Contact us with feedback, questions, and suggestions for future episodes @historyhotchpod on Twitter and Instagram.
Artwork by the amazing Zach Smithson: https://zachsmithson.artstation.com
By way of a taster for S3 we hope you enjoy another slightly different edition of the podcast.
It was recorded—as you'll be able to tell—earlier in the year, but life kept getting in the way of the edit. We're now hard at work on S3 but we do have some spaces left to fill, so if there's anything you'd like to hear us waffle on about, please give us a shout with your suggestions and requests.
5 Apr 2021
S2 E10 Genghis Khan
Magnificent forger of empires or mad as a badger and armed to the teeth?
And we reach the end of our second season with a look at one of the most requested historical figures, the great Khan. You sick lot. Questions of his levels of sadism compared to contemporaries, his inability to keep his trousers on and the logical conclusion to his funeral cortege are all here. Warning: contains pronunciation that’s ropey even by our standards.
29 Mar 2021
S2 E9 Spartan Women
Radical feminists of Ancient Greece or bossy troublemakers?
Nearing the end of Women’s History Month, we look at the women of ancient Sparta, famous for having more freedom and rights than women elsewhere in the Greek world. Often seen as promiscuous and domineering by contemporaries outside of Sparta, the ladies of Lacedaemon enjoyed academic and physical education, could pursue their own interests, and married later than their counterparts in other city-states. They also took multiple sexual partners all in the interests of producing more healthy warriors for the formidable Spartan military. Warning: contains audible chuckling at the notion of people exercising nude.
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