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Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexyWho was Catiline? Why did he try to do a coup? was it a big deal? Why did Cicero hate him? Find out all this and more in this episode!Further reading and show notes https://historyissexy.com/show-notes/episode-88-what-really-happened-in-catilines-conspiracy…

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Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexyGraham and Ali from Rex Factor are here and we're talking about England's most consequential Queen Consorts, and all the skulduggery she got up to!⚠ Listener survey! ⚠We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the b…

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Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexyEmma is joined by HR Owen once again to discuss the most dramatic family in Classical Egypt!⚠ Listener survey! ⚠We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find out how we can improve our podcast to be the best that it can be. To help us figure this stuff out, p…

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexyJanina's on a bit of a break, but history never sleeps, so Emma is joined by acclaimed podcaster HR Owen for a deep dive into perhaps one of the most dramatic families in history, the Ptolemys.⚠ Listener survey! ⚠We want to get to know our wonderful audience (that's you) a little better, and find …

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexyHow did the various states that've existed on the British Isles/North Atlantic Archipelago coalesce, fracture, and coalesce over and over until it became the country we know today? A thousand years of history, all in just over an hour!⚠ Listener survey! ⚠We want to get to know our wonderful audien…

Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/historyissexyIn 60CE, Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, led a violent uprising of unprecedented scale that tore across the southeast of Britannia, burning London and shocking the Roman world. But what's the real story? Was she real? Was she a literary construct? How are our modern conceptions of Boudica affected by…

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