Dec 18, 2025
In this series,
we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman
who helped run them. Let's link up with Empress Theodora, who's
going to walk us through her Byzantine (aka Eastern Roman) Empire.
We'll see her rise from a fairly humble, and sometimes scandalous,
background as an actress and courtesan...
Nov 26, 2025
In this series,
we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman
who helped run them. Allow me to introduce you to Empress Taytu
Betul, who wasn't afraid to storm battlefields, boss around her
emperor husband, and tell certain colonial powers to go on home.
Let's walk with Taytu on her extraordinary...
Nov 13, 2025
Dr.
Elizabeth Norton has returned! This time, she's taking us out of
the Tudor period to take a more global look at queenship. Her new
book 'When Women Ruled the World: 500 Years of Female Monarchy'
explores the history of female monarchs across time and cultures.
We dive into the challenges faced by women in power,
the...
Oct 27, 2025
There is a woman in the Old Quarter who can give you the world for a price. They say her followers gather deep in the bayou after dark. Some say she’s got the governor in her pocket. Others say she eats babies, and that she learned her magic in the depths of the African jungle. They say her potions can heal you, and...
Oct 13, 2025
Season 6, Episode 13. Welcome back to Exploress Book Club! Join me and Adriana Herrera, author of the historical romance novel A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, as we time travel back to the 1890s Paris. Adriana will tell us all about putting women of color back into historical romance, women's medicine and reproductive...