Death, Dissection & Grave Robbing
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
05/27/22
•44m
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Genital warts fashioned into necklaces, teeth harvested from the battlefield and blood vessels eternalised in wax: these are some of the things that you might find inside Edinburgh’s Surgeons’ Hall Museums.
But who did they belong to? Kate is talking to Thomas Elliot, head of learning and interpretation, to find out.
*WARNING this episode includes themes of an adult nature*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Lewis Mason.
Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.
Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards! UK & Ireland listeners please place your vote on the Spotify mobile app here: https://open.spotify.com/s/xhg6PJa
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Previous Episode
Vasectomy
May 24, 2022
•50m
What do you think of when you think of birth control? Is it condoms, IUDs, the pill? What about vasectomies?
From monkey testicles to possible cancer treatments to ties of honour, over the past 150 years ‘the snip’ has had a few variations and uses ... not all of them scientifically sound. But what is it? And how did it come about?
Kate is joined Betwixt the Sheets by Georgia Grainger (https://twitter.com/sniphist) to discuss the vasectomy’s place as a contraceptive, as well as its relationship with eugenics and masculinity.
*WARNING this episode includes mentions of mental illness, eugenics and themes of an adult nature*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Pete Dennis.
Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.
This podcast includes music from Epidemic Sound and archive clips from Singer Sewing Machines “Three Smart Daughters” advertisement, 1940, and Beich Whiz Bar “Party Magic” commercial, 1938.
Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards! UK & Ireland listeners please place your vote on the Spotify mobile app here: https://open.spotify.com/s/xhg6PJa
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
Corsets
May 31, 2022
•35m
Have you ever been told you’re bringing women’s rights back one-hundred years because of what you’re wearing?
The guest on Betwixt the Sheets today has. And it was a corset.
Dr Alanna McKnight has dedicated her career to researching the social and cultural history of corsets, and to challenging the idea that corsets were imposed on women as a tool of patriarchal control.
Find out why people started wearing corsets, whether men ever wore corsets, what were they made of, and how they’ve paved the way for shape wear like Spanx and waist-trainers.
Find out more about Alanna’s work here, and read her article on Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala corset here.
*WARNING this episode includes some fruity language*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.
Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.This episode includes music by Epidemic Sound and an archive clip from the Public Health Film Goes to War from the National Library of Medicine 1945.
Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards! UK & Ireland listeners please place your vote on the Spotify mobile app here: https://open.spotify.com/s/xhg6PJa
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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