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Title | Date published | ||
Sordid Soho | 2023-03-24 | ||
Lord Byron: Incest, Adultery & Daddy Issues | 2023-03-21 | ||
Female Nudity & Modesty | 2023-03-17 | ||
Medieval Women: Beauty, Work & Pubic Hair | 2023-03-14 | ||
Drag Queens | 2023-03-12 | ||
Women Rebels: The Spanish Civil War | 2023-03-10 | ||
From Eve to Austen: Women in Literature | 2023-03-07 | ||
The History of Periods | 2023-03-03 | ||
The Real Bridgerton | 2023-02-28 | ||
Wedding Dresses | 2023-02-24 | ||
Cooking for Churchill: Georgina Landemare | 2023-02-21 | ||
Hag Horror: Older Women in Film | 2023-02-17 | ||
Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress? | 2023-02-14 | ||
Food, Sin & Shame | 2023-02-10 | ||
The Real Casanova | 2023-02-07 | ||
Marie Stopes: Birth Control & Eugenics | 2023-02-03 | ||
Prison Plastic Surgery | 2023-01-31 | ||
Wallis Simpson | 2023-01-27 | ||
Eunuchs | 2023-01-24 | ||
A History of Porn | 2023-01-20 |