Women Artists of the Renaissance
When we think about Renaissance art, men's names are usually the first to come to mind. But some the period's artists were, of course, also...
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Join us as we time travel back through history, exploring the lives and stories of ladies of the past, from the everyday to the extraordinary, imagining what it might have been like to be th...
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The Women Who Flew During WWII with Becky Aikman
Today we're time traveling somewhere The Exploress has rarely been - World War II - to meet some of its daring female pilots. Turns out wome...
Empress Börte and Life for Women in the Mongol Empire
Genghis (or Chinggis) Khan is pretty famous for building the largest contiguous land empire the world has ever seen. But he couldn't have do...
Giving Cleopatra Voice with Natasha Solomons
In this episode of the Exploress Book Club, Natasha Solomons and I explore her new book I Am Cleopatra and the complexities of bringing Cleo...
Empress Cleopatra of Ancient Egypt
In this series, we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman who ran them. This time, we're revisiting a ruling lady...
Empress Theodora & Life for Women in the Byzantine Empire
In this series, we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman who helped run them. Let's link up with Empress Theodora...
Empress Taytu Betul & Life for Women in 19th-century Ethiopia
In this series, we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman who helped run them. Allow me to introduce you to Empres...
Women Who Ruled the World with Elizabeth Norton
Dr. Elizabeth Norton has returned! This time, she's taking us out of the Tudor period to take a more global look at queenship. Her new book...
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau
There is a woman in the Old Quarter who can give you the world for a price. They say her followers gather deep in the bayou after dark. Some...
Women's Medicine in the 19th Century (with a side of spice) with Adriana Herrera
Season 6, Episode 13. Welcome back to Exploress Book Club! Join me and Adriana Herrera, author of the historical romance novel A Tropical Re...
Empress Nur Jahan & Life for Women in Mughal India
Season 6, Episode 12. In this series, we're time traveling with three different empresses, exploring their reigns, their worlds, and what it...
Empress Trailer
EMPRESS. The word comes from Old French, but its roots stretch back to the Latin imperium. It means a command; it means authority, it means...
Heroines of the Harlem Renaissance with Victoria Christopher Murray
Season 6, Episode 11. Welcome back to Exploress Book Club! Join me in talking to Victoria Christopher Murray, author of the historical ficti...
A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 5: Shield Maidens and Sorceresses
Season 6, Episode 10. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're explori...
A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 4: Weavers, Traders, Raiders, and Slaves
Season 6, Episode 9. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're going to...
Lesbian Fashion History with Eleanor Medhurst
Season 6, Episode 8. Happy Pride Month! Join me and Eleanor Medhurst to discuss her book 'Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion,' which e...
The Wild Times of Julie D'Aubigny
Season 6, Episode 7. If you were living in Paris in the late 1600s and happened to pick up a newspaper, you might have read about the latest...
Ladies Who Sleuth in Regency England with Alison Goodman
Season 6, Episode 6. Welcome to Exploress Book Club! Join me in talking to Alison Goodman, author of The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered...
1,001 Nights with Al-Khayzuran
Season 6, Episode 5. One Thousand and One Nights – the famed collection of stories in which the vizier's daughter, Scheherazade, agrees to w...
A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 3: The Daily Grind
Season 6, Episode 4. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're going to...