The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women have been the driving force behind history for millennia, from female Pharoahs, warrior princesses and pirates, to the revolutionaries who sought to topple the male-dominated political systems of their day. From host of the popular 'Queens of England Podcast', The Other Half tells the forgotten and ignored stories of the most powerful and influential women in history.
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United States
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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women have been the driving force behind history for millennia, from female Pharoahs, warrior princesses and pirates, to the revolutionaries who sought to topple the male-dominated political systems of their day. From host of the popular 'Queens of England Podcast', The Other Half tells the forgotten and ignored stories of the most powerful and influential women in history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language:
English
Episodes
5.17 Manuela Sáenz (2) The Liberator of the Liberator
4/14/2024
Manuela Sáenz returns to Simón Bolívar's side in Bogota as he struggles to hold his dream together and assassins close in.
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Duration:00:36:08
5.16 Manuela Sáenz (1) La Libertadora
3/24/2024
Simon Bolivar is celebrated as the Liberator of five. And by his side was one of history's great forgotten female revolutionaries.
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Duration:00:44:04
5.15 Sally Hemings (2) Sally's Choice
3/3/2024
Sally arrives in France on the eve of Revolution and into a sexual relationship with her enslaver begins - leading to a fateful choice that would change her life forever.
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Duration:00:46:15
5.14 Sally Hemings (1) Keeping it in the family
2/11/2024
Not all rulers are monarchs, and not all mistresses consented to sleeping with rulers. The relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is one of the most controversial in American history - this is how it starts.
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Duration:00:36:40
5.13 Madame de Pompadour (3) After us, the Flood
1/14/2024
As the sexual side of her relationship with Louis XV ended, Reinette would need to find new ways to remain in power - all the while, a new enemy emerged from across the Rhine.
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Duration:00:34:40
5.12 Madame de Pompadour (2) The Fishes Daughter
12/17/2023
Reinette solidifies her position as the maitresse-en-titre to Louis, but. in doing so, creates some powerful enemies.
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Duration:00:37:00
5.11 Madame de Pompadour (1) The little Queen
11/26/2023
A mother takes her daughter to see a fortune teller, who tells her that she would grow up to sleep with the King of France.
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Duration:00:32:29
5.10 Hortense Mancini (2) Queen of the Amazons
11/12/2023
Hortense travels to England and seduces a King. And his daughter.
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Duration:00:41:32
Podcast Update - I'm coming back!
11/5/2023
The Other Half Podcast will return next weekend!
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Duration:00:02:39
Podcast update
8/13/2023
I've been away for a little while. I'll be away for a little while longer. Here's why.
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Duration:00:02:17
5.09 Hortense Mancini (1) The runaway Mazarinette
6/4/2023
A woman born in Italy, raised in the court of the Sun King and who would become the mistress of England’s most famous womanising monarch.
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Duration:00:35:13
5.08 Roxelana (3) A tale of two princes
5/21/2023
Roxelana goes to even more extraordinary lengths to protect her family, but even she would not be able to keep cracks from opening up.
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Duration:00:29:24
5.07 Roxelana (2) From 'sold meat' to Sultana
5/7/2023
Roxelana picks a fight with a rival and has another killed. She was playing for keeps.
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Duration:00:30:05
5.06 Roxelana (1) Revolutionary monogamy
4/16/2023
Sold into slavery at a young age, Roxelana would tear up the rule book in the Imperial harem in Istanbul.
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Duration:00:28:15
5.05 Lady Nijo: The confessions of a concubine
4/2/2023
After losing her parents at a young age, Lady Nijo is sent to be the concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa. But if he expected her to knuckle under, he would be sorely disappointed.
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Duration:00:39:16
5.04 Servilia (2) The mother of an honourable man
3/19/2023
As the Roman Republic entered its death spiral - Servilia would have to choose between her son and the man she loved.
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Duration:00:34:30
5.03 Servilia (1) Lover of Caesar
3/6/2023
The decline and fall of the Roman Republic is one of history's great epics - with a colourful cast of characters that have become household names. All of them men. All, except one.
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Duration:00:35:50
5.02 Aspasia of Miletus: Notorious woman of Athens
2/19/2023
The teacher of Socrates and the lover of Pericles - Aspasia of Miletus came to Athens with nothing, but left quite a legacy.
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Duration:00:38:24
5.01 Rulers' Mistresses: History's Other Women
2/12/2023
In the fifth season of the Other Half Podcast, we are looking at Rulers' Mistresses: a cross-cultural story of extra-marital love and lust, bringing ten women, who so often existed in the shadows, into the light.
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Duration:00:14:38
4.26 Pascalina Lehnert (2) The powerful virgin
10/30/2022
Pascalina helps propel Pius XII to the papacy, becoming his right-hand woman and the most powerful woman in Vatican history.
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Duration:00:34:10