by Rachel Dyer + Hazel Atkinson
Welcome to Love is Dead: Historical Heartbreaks and Hot Takes. The podcast where history answers your modern dating queries. Each week Hazel and Rachel will investigate how history would answer modern dating concerns. Instagram @loveisdeadpodcast Twitter @LoveisDeadPod Art @afools_designs
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2/14/2021
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June 1, 2021
<p>This week in an unedited special episode Hazel and Rachel explore how to show love in a long distance relationship. Hazel digs into the often one-sided love affair of Emperor Napoleon and his wife Josephine. Rachel explores the softer side of General and President Ulysses S. Grant. Long distance can be hard but if you put in the effort sometimes the other person will be into it?</p>
May 11, 2021
<p>Do you believe in love at first sight?</p> <p>Today Hazel and Rachel answer the oldest question in the book (if that book happens to be The Bible or the Argonautica) and discuss whether we should believe in 'love at first sight'.</p> <p>Rachel gets biblical with the story of Jacob and his wife Rachel . . . and Leah . . . and all their handmaidens. Would you work for seven years just to marry the one you love?</p> <p>Then Hazel looks at the story of Medea and Jason, in which we learn of the 'sweet anguish' caused by the arrows of Eros, and wonder if the Argonauts count as the first 'lads on tour'.</p> <p><br></p>
April 20, 2021
<p>CW: death, non-consensual sexual activity</p> <p>(Although as usual we are a light-hearted podcast please note this week's episode may contain some upsetting themes)</p> <p><br></p> <p>We're back baby! And answering one of your dating queries: are grand gestures the epitome of romance, or just a little too much?</p> <p>Hazel guides Rachel through the ‘Undo Your Door’, a late medieval Romance simply stuffed with all manner of twists and turns, leading them to wonder: is embalming a practical skill?</p> <p>Then Rachel discusses one of history's most famous romantic gestures: the abdication of King Edward VIII, a sacrifice made in the name of love for an - *gasp* - American!</p> <p>It gets icky, it gets weird, it's history!</p>
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Welcome to Love is Dead: Historical Heartbreaks and Hot Takes. The podcast where history answers your modern dating queries. Each week Hazel and Rachel will investigate how history would answer modern dating concerns.
Instagram @loveisdeadpodcast Twitter @LoveisDeadPod Art @afools_designs
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