Claire and Maddy Pelling remind us that the life of the party is often also the worst person you know.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Madeleine Pelling is a cultural historian, author, and broadcaster. Her newest book Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment is available for pre-order here, and her podcast After Dark is available here. Follow her on Instagram @maddypelling, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, slavery, political violence and police brutality

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Sophia Rosenfeld discuss what women want. And what they don’t want. And what they don’t want other women to want.

Guest

Our guest Sophia Rosenfeld is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and Prof. Marlene Daut cover life in the French Caribbean, and fill in all the bits that weren’t covered in high school or our previous Napoleon episode. For example, the murdering.

Guest

Our guest Marlene Daut is a Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale. Her newest book, The First and Last King of Haiti is available here. Visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism and racial violence, slavery, torture, child death & child endangerment

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and Rhiannon Garth Jones take a trip to the Middle East. Or possibly the Near East. Or maybe somewhere else but it’s DEFINITELY not the West and how dare you imply otherwise.

Guest

Our guest Rhiannon Garth Jones is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her book All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think of the Roman Empire Daily, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky. @rhigarthjones

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, Islamophobia

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Introducing Past Lives, a brand-new history podcast from Patrick Wyman, creator of Tides of History and Fall of Rome. Discover the real, lived experiences of everyday people in the human past, not Great Men and their Doings.

Subscribe for free on your podcast app of choice, and be sure to check out the Past Lives Patreon with tons of bonus content to support this 100% independent production.

-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/PastLivesMedia

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Claire et David M. Perry de poeta mediaevali maledicunt.

Guest

Our guest David M. Perry is a journalist and historian. Pre-order his new book The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook here, or buy copies of The Bright Ages or Oathbreakers here. Follow him on Bluesky @lollardfish or visit his website here.

Sponsors

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Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and John Callanan explain why Bernard Mandeville is the bee’s knees. That joke might not make sense yet, but it will once you’re done with the episode.

Guest

Our guest Dr. John Callanan is a Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London. His book Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @johnjocallanan and on Bluesky @johnjocallanan.

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and Vanessa Williamson talk about death, taxes, and a man who literally believed they should go hand-in-hand.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Her book The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @vanessawilliamson.

Sponsors

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racial violence, murder, slavery

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

Find Us Online

- Website: thisguysucked.com

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