Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

To celebrate the release of Kate's new History Hit documentary, Beating Around The Bush: The History of Pubic Hair, we're revisiting a favourite episode about exactly that.

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Forget celebrities running around the Highlands... come back to the 16th century Tudor court when being a traitor meant literally losing your head.

Joining Kate today is Tudor historian and author Nicola Tallis, to expose the ultimate Tudor traitor: Thomas Cromwell.

Why did he work so hard to make Anne Boleyn queen only to orchestrate the plot to kill ...

In the first half of the 1700s, Britain was overwhelmed by gin. But it might not have been as fun as it sounds.

Today, we're hearing about what the so-called gin-craze was, the impact that it had on regular people, and the government's attempts to control it.

Kate is joined by Professor Judith Hawley from Royal Holloway for this episode.

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Demonic blood-sucking creatures have existed for thousands of years before Dracula showed up all sexy, suave and problematic.

Who were these figures who inspired what we know today as vampires? Why are a lot of these supernatural creatures female figures? And why did left-handed red heads once get stakes through the heart!?

Joining Kate today is the fa...

Is this the story of a sex crazed empress? Or just some good (really) old-fashioned gossip?

Was Messalina, wife of Emperor Claudius, really a sex worker by night? And did she really marry another man whilst her very powerful husband was still alive?

This episode of Betwixt contains possibly the biggest scandal to take place in Ancient Rome, br...