Vulgar History
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Feminist women’s history comedy podcast hosted by Ann Foster
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I wrote a book and it’s coming out in February 2026! REBEL OF THE REGENCY is a funny biography of Caroline of Brunswick, the lesser-known British queen. It will be published in North America by @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social @htpbooks.bsky.social
Get all the info at rebeloftheregency.com
Get all the info at rebeloftheregency.com
The Regency Era in Britain had a lot of heiresses. Some of them inherited money from Caribbean plantations and enslavement.
Our guest Miranda Kaufmann talks about her research on this topic and her book HEIRESSES, today on the podcast. pod.link/1489560920/e...
Our guest Miranda Kaufmann talks about her research on this topic and her book HEIRESSES, today on the podcast. pod.link/1489560920/e...
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Regency Era in Britain had a lot of heiresses. Some of them inherited money from Caribbean plantations and enslavement.
Our guest Miranda Kaufmann talks about her research on this topic and her book HEIRESSES, today on the podcast. pod.link/1489560920/e...
Our guest Miranda Kaufmann talks about her research on this topic and her book HEIRESSES, today on the podcast. pod.link/1489560920/e...
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And serving some sass!
The fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Wil, Switzerland. He is a catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
And serving some sass!
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Banjo doing his world-famous ammonite impression.
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Banjo doing his world-famous ammonite impression.
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She’s a STAR!! My upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY just received a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩 www.publishersweekly.com/9781335000637
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Uncrowned Queen by Ann Foster
Though virtually forgotten today, during her lifetime Caroline of Brunswick (1768–1821) was as well-loved by Britain’s commoners...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
She’s a STAR!! My upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY just received a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩 www.publishersweekly.com/9781335000637
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hate it when this happens.
In Japanese folklore be sure you follow the appropriate protocols when building your home: if a pillar is placed upside down, the spirit of the dead tree, the sakabashira, will manifest as a luck-stealing poltergeist, moaning and causing misery. #FolkloreSunday
🖼: M. Meyer
🖼: M. Meyer
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
hate it when this happens.
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Snazzy poster for our Brontë Studies CFP on Poetry (more details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...)
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Snazzy poster for our Brontë Studies CFP on Poetry (more details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...)
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
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‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
She’s a STAR!! My upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY just received a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩 www.publishersweekly.com/9781335000637
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Uncrowned Queen by Ann Foster
Though virtually forgotten today, during her lifetime Caroline of Brunswick (1768–1821) was as well-loved by Britain’s commoners...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
She’s a STAR!! My upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY just received a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩 www.publishersweekly.com/9781335000637
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I just can't believe something called Hamnet can be good
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I just can't believe something called Hamnet can be good
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HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS
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The mass of men may very well lead lives of desperation, but at least it used to be quiet
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The mass of men may very well lead lives of desperation, but at least it used to be quiet
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thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
Omg wait @clairewillett.bsky.social are all of the Pope’s jerseys relics now????
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
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The Pope tossing his new jersey into the big pile
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The Pope tossing his new jersey into the big pile
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Hi everyone. I am pleased to announce my new book GILDED AGE FASHION! ➡️ Reserve your first edition copy now from your favorite bookseller.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hi everyone. I am pleased to announce my new book GILDED AGE FASHION! ➡️ Reserve your first edition copy now from your favorite bookseller.
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Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
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Assassins is the most indispensable American musical ever written, and therefore the greatest, and I will die on this tiny hill, clinging to my tiny flag like charlie guiteau clinging to a flimsy chapbook of his own poetry
also "the ballad of guiteau" is one of the best songs in sondheim's Assassins, which is one of history's best musicals
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Assassins is the most indispensable American musical ever written, and therefore the greatest, and I will die on this tiny hill, clinging to my tiny flag like charlie guiteau clinging to a flimsy chapbook of his own poetry
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Technically, it's an aggravated felony sexual assault of a child, with harsher penalties put in place for perpetrators with younger victims.
Also, ACTUAL MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN HERE: For non-nobles, the average age of brides from the Black Death onwards was...22.2 years old.
Also, ACTUAL MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN HERE: For non-nobles, the average age of brides from the Black Death onwards was...22.2 years old.
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Technically, it's an aggravated felony sexual assault of a child, with harsher penalties put in place for perpetrators with younger victims.
Also, ACTUAL MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN HERE: For non-nobles, the average age of brides from the Black Death onwards was...22.2 years old.
Also, ACTUAL MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN HERE: For non-nobles, the average age of brides from the Black Death onwards was...22.2 years old.
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Reminder that donations to my personal fundraiser to support Scarleteen count DOUBLE up to the first $1,000! I'd love to hit $800 tonight, so come at me, big spenders.
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
Scarleteen is people-powered, NOT AI! We’re raising $40,000 for staff and volunteer health care and today, we’d like to celebrate some amazing volunteers who make inclusive, joyful sex, health, and relationships education possible. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Reminder that donations to my personal fundraiser to support Scarleteen count DOUBLE up to the first $1,000! I'd love to hit $800 tonight, so come at me, big spenders.
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
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Regency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer.
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Regency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer.
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
Regency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer.
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Regency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer.
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
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Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow.#JacobinDay
More information on the harrow
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This is trying to make the staff the thing that needs to be fixed.
It is not the staff.
It is not the staff.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is trying to make the staff the thing that needs to be fixed.
It is not the staff.
It is not the staff.