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Kate Lister
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning. https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
I swear my mate just told me her toddler has foot and mouth disease. In my role of child free auntie, I have no idea how to help. Do I send a get well soon card, or help her burn the farm down to stop the infection spreading???
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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'cast your mind back over your dating history and then ask yourself how good your gut instinct really is'

En vaak weet je het ergens ook wel, maar toch proberen, hè.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Opinion | It gives us a great deal of comfort to believe we have innate instincts that can wheedle out a social menace and spot a liar on sight, but the truth is that we don’t

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November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If Traitors taught us anything it’s this, don’t trust your gut. Your gut is an idiot.

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The reason you can never tell if someone is lying to you
Despite our 'gut' being unreliable to say the least, we often prefer to follow it
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November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to Helen Carr about possibly the most toxic royal marriage in medieval Britain, Edward II of England and Queen Isabella of France… and Hugh Despenser.

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November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking all things #VanGogh with the marvellous Teio Meedendorp from the VanGogh Museum

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November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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😍😍 OMG, wonderful episode & crying out to be dramatised in the style of Sally Wainwright’s #RiotWomen @k8lister.bsky.social
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Who was the Husband Poisoner of Renaissance Italy?
Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 07/11/2025 · 35m
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November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Really very highly recommend you listen this episode of @k8lister.bsky.social's show that covers the origin of Frankestein, or rather some of the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rotten little nepo bitch.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the incomparable Cathryn Kemp about her work on the Italian, mass husband poisoner, Giulia Tofana 💀☠️🍾🪦
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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You should absolutely go find this if you, like me and all right-thinking people, enjoy telling Percy Bysshe Shelley to fuck off into the sun.
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Frankentastic Fiona Sampson about the life and loves of #MaryShelley
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Frankentastic Fiona Sampson about the life and loves of #MaryShelley
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Tilberi were the pets of #Icelandic witches and you can see them in the #Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and #Witchcraft, where I visited as part of the new film on History Hit, Witchmen: the Icelandic age of ice and fire.
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I love people who know how to get stains out of clothes. Not dry cleaners, that’s their job, I mean the woman who tears across the street and kicks the door in to tell you that you need to soak an ink stain with hand sanitiser before washing it on a low heat. Those people have seen some shit.
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
When some tailgating jerk aggressively overtakes, only to have to cut in front of you because it wasn’t safe to overtake - and then you get to sit right behind him for miles with both of you knowing his prick move was completely pointless? 10/10
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Anything under 20% off should not be allowed to call itself a “sale.” Don’t be sending me excited emails about your “flash sale” to only knock 5% off your jumpers.
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
As a single woman without kids, I am always caught out when trick or treaters knock on my door. “No, I don’t have any sweets to give you. Can I interest you in some Brie?”
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Everyone forgets the male witches.
My latest documentary with History Hit looks at the witch hunts in 17th century Iceland, where 93% of those condemned as witches were men. Now available at historyhit.com (free trial period available.)
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My latest documentary with History Hit looks at the witch hunts in 17th century Iceland, where 93% of those condemned as witches were men. Now available at historyhit.com (free trial period available.)
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Buying this instead of turning the heating on this winter. Checkmate, energy companies
“& what does this incredible product do to “alleviate symptoms associated with perimenopause & menopause”? It heats up. Because that’s what any woman dealing with hot flushes that could be measured on the Scoville scale needs, right? A hot vibrator up her chuff? Genius.”

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With the menopause dildo, we've officially reached peak menopause bollocks
The menopause has become a great way to cash in on women who are struggling
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October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“& what does this incredible product do to “alleviate symptoms associated with perimenopause & menopause”? It heats up. Because that’s what any woman dealing with hot flushes that could be measured on the Scoville scale needs, right? A hot vibrator up her chuff? Genius.”

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With the menopause dildo, we've officially reached peak menopause bollocks
The menopause has become a great way to cash in on women who are struggling
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October 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We need some kind of warning system to let people without kids know it’s half term. I wasn’t ready for Leeds central train station this morning.
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Automated admin systems that charge an “admin fee” to make changes can suck all the dicks in hell. Why the hell are you charging me? I’m the one who made the changes!!! I AM THE ADMIN!
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Julia Martins about the history of virginity and how they faked it.

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October 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Have you ever spent three hours trying to teach your parents how to fill out an online pdf form, or are you not currently looking at 15 to life?
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM