Yokai Women | Evil Monsters or Victims?
What happens when women become the monsters of Japanese folklore? In this episode of For the Love of History, we dive into the terrifying wo...
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I'm TK, your guide to the past as we uncover the people, events, and little-known-facts hidden in the shadows of your old history textbooks. From empress baddies to activist profiles, turkey...
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Empress Baddie | Theodora of the Byzantine Empire
Was she a teenage s*x worker or a young woman caught in the crossfire of history?! Let’s dive into how Empress Theodora became one of the mo...
Minamata | Japan's Cover-Up That Poisoned Generations
A quiet fishing town. Cats dancing themselves to death on the wharf. And a company that knew exactly why. This is what happens when companie...
The Mystery of Scythain Tattoos
For 2,500 years, her tattoos were invisible, hidden beneath mummified skin until infrared imaging revealed what no one knew existed. In this...
Samurai Fart Art of Japan | 10 Min History
Japan gave us The Great Wave. It also gave us 34 feet of fart scroll! 💨 When archivists at Waseda University unrolled a 34-foot Edo-period...
The Deadly Search For Immortality
What if the pill you believed would save your life was slowly killing you? In the third century, the most powerful ruler in human history, Q...
The History of Heels | The Military Tech That Became Women's Most Impractical Shoe
Men invented high heels. Men made them a power symbol. Then men decided women should wear them instead. Classic. In this episode of For the...
Japan's Dirtiest Jobs — and Why One of Them Created a Caste System That Still Exists
From professional fart scapegoats to the workers who literally built civilization from the ground up. Edo Japan's labor history is wild, gro...
The Forgotten Scientist Behind Every Pair of Glasses You've Ever Worn | The History of Glasses
Did we invent glasses, or did we invent the problem that makes us need them? 👓 From bone goggles carved by the Inuit 2,000 years ago to the...
Polianitsy Warrior Women: Myth, Misogyny, and the Evidence They Ignored
Were warrior women real—or is that just a myth we’ve been told for centuries? From the legendary Amazons of Greek myth to the very real Scyt...
6 Years of Weird, Dark & Hidden History 👀 | Q&A + Women’s History, Books & Podcast Life
Six years. SIX. YEARS. 🎉 And somehow… we’re still here, still talking about history, and now—✨we’ve finally released the intern from the ed...
Empress Baddie Lady K’abel: Maya Supreme Warlord of the Snake Dynasty
What if one of the most powerful warlords in the ancient Maya world… was a woman? In this episode of For the Love of History, we dive deep i...
The Real Mythology of Spirited Away | Yokai, River Dragons & the Meaning of No-Face
What does Spirited Away actually mean? And who—or what—is No-Face really supposed to be? In this episode of For the Love of History, we dive...
History of Alchemy Explained: Ancient Science Before Chemistry
When most people think of alchemy, they imagine a medieval wizard desperately trying to turn lead into gold. But the real story of alchemy i...
The Hidden People of Japan | Ainu History and Myth
What happens when a racist A**hole tells your history?! Well, your religion and mythology get missinterepretted for a couple hundred years u...
Gothic Romance | The Fight for Women’s Education that Led to Wuthering Heights
The Gothic novel didn’t emerge from nowhere. As women’s literacy rates rose in the late 18th and 19th centuries, so did a powerful new readi...
Creator of Humanity and Destroyer of Worlds | The History of Salt
How could something so small hold so much power!? This week, let's hop in the time machine to discover how something so small and seemingly...
The Most Chaotic Olympics in History and the Games that Don't Exist
It's a miracle the Olympic Games continued after the absolute clusterf*ck that was its early history. From near-death marathons to shady org...
Empire Building Cheat Code | The History of Sacred Llamas of the Incan Empire
I've found Yzma's llama potion, and I'm taking it back to the 13th century!! Yes, beloved, we're going to Emperor's New Groove it in this ep...
Empress Baddie | Himiko The Shamin Queen and My Beef with the Imperial Housing Agency of Japan
Say hello to spicy TK this episode because I have MAD beef with the Japanese Imperial Household Agency and their very dumb rules! But beside...