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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Today: #21 in History, Canada on our combined chart.

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Date	Combined Rank	Apple Podcasts	Pocket Casts	Castbox
Oct 21	#21	#21	#21	#23
Oct 20	#23	#23	#26	#24
Oct 19	#20	#20	#20	#20
Oct 18	#16	#16	#12	#21
Oct 17	#21	#21	#21	#25
Oct 16	#27	#27	#27	#25

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Join sex historian Dr Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush. What were the Victorians really like behind closed (bedroom) doors? How did the Black Death favour women in medieval England? And what was Caesar like in the sack? Join Kate as she bed-hops around different time periods; from ancient civilisations, to the middle ages, to renaissance and early modern...right up to now. You’ll laugh, you’ll wince, and you’ll ask yourself how much has actually changed. Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - a podcast from History Hit. History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™ Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.