As my gift to you all, enjoy this newly-edited (just for audio issues, not for content!) discussion of the 2001... more

Gráinne Ní Mháille was a 16th-century woman who led the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland. She is... more

William Shakespeare dedicated many of his sonnets to someone known only as the Dark Lady. Novelist Mary McMyne imagines that... more

Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded... more

Slut. Shrew. Sinful. Scold. The 19th- and early 20th-century American women profiled in Therese Oneill's new book Unbecoming A Woman... more

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. She learned about the practice of smallpox... more

It's a crossover special! Last month, I went on The Art of Crime to share the story of Princess Caraboo... more

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, aka Adélaïde Des Vertus was one of the greatest female painters in 18th-century France. The path was not... more

It's a Halloween special! While the French Revolution turned into The Terror, people still had to keep working their regular... more

Bonus! I'm hard at work right now writing my book Rebel of the Regency, a biography of Caroline of Brunswick... more