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Isabelle Roughol
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  1. 23h ago

    American Revolution | Ep 3 | The Schuyler sisters: Inside America's most famous love triangle

    What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to Jefferson? What about all the Schuyler siblings who didn't make the musical? Join me in conversation with the Schuyler sisters' Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Amanda Vaill for a look at the real stories inside America's most famous love triangle. ★ Support this podcast ★ On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host Jump to: (00:00) - Intro (01:51) - Failing the Bechdel test (04:40) - Catherine and Philip Schuyler, a productive marriage (06:42) - The story of Dutch colonisation in the Hudson Valley (10:28) - Romance, drama and theatrics: The Schuyler family's big feelings (13:41) - Education and why the Schuyler girls wouldn't have learned Latin (15:45) - Angelica's elopment and deceptive husband (23:39) - Angelica's pragmatism (24:44) - How Eliza meets Hamilton (not through Angelica) (30:00) - A forbidden love (34:40) - Ad break (34:41) - Did Angelica heighten the Jefferson-Hamilton feud? (40:11) - What actually happened between Angelica and Hamilton? (41:29) - Angelica's politics (43:49) - Eliza's role as Hamilton's intellectual sparring partner (50:39) - Eliza's widowhood Get the book🇺🇸 Get the book in the US🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop (Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript. What do you think? Read & comment at broadhistory.comReply on Bluesky Email me: isa@broadhistory.com

    American Revolution | Ep 3 | The Schuyler sisters: Inside America's most famous love triangle

  2. Jul 11

    American Revolution | Ep 2 | Abigail Adams, capitalist (Woody Holton)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! Abigail Adams made a killing in war bonds (and possibly a bit of insider trading). She used John Adams' diplomatic posting to import luxury goods from France and resell them at an insane markup. She's the reason her civil servant husband, unlike many of the founding fathers, did not die in massive debt. But as a married woman, she could not own anything in her own name or keep the proceeds of her clever investments. Her famous "Remember the ladies" was not, her biographer Woody Holton argues, a call for women's right to vote. Rather it was a plea to free women from the tyranny of bad husbands and from having their fate decided by the lottery of marriage. Meet Abigail Adams, loving partner, flawed mother, financial capitalist and women's advocate. ★ Support this podcast ★ Get the book🇺🇸 "Abigail Adams: A Life" and "Liberty is Sweet" by Woody Holton🇬🇧 "Liberty is Sweet" by Woody Holton. "Abigail Adams: A Life" is unavailable in the UK, but you can browse for other books on Women in the American Revolution.(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.) Browse the Adams family archives On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host Woody Holton - Guest What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comReply on Bluesky Email me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: Click here to view the episode transcript.

    American Revolution | Ep 2 | Abigail Adams, capitalist (Woody Holton)

  3. Jul 4

    American Revolution | Ep 1 | The political awakening of American women (Carol Berkin)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  The most radical thing about the American Revolution? The sudden politicisation of colonial women, argues Dr Carol Berkin, author of "Revolutionary Mothers" and one of the preeminent historians of women in the early United States. Women were the main organisers of the boycotts of British goods, which fanned the flames of revolution. They were involved in every aspect of the war – except in high politics, from which they were barred. Sign up for the newsletter at www.broadhistory.com. Listen early and without ads. Become a member at www.broadhistory.com/membership.On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host Carol Berkin - Guest What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - S2 Ep01 Carol Berkin (04:18) - Meet Carol Berkin (04:24) - The three principles of colonial America's patriarchal society (09:05) - The permanent childhood of women (11:50) - The roots of revolution in the French and Indian war (17:00) - Boycotts, liberty cloth and the political radicalisation of women (24:03) - Loyalist women (26:32) - Break (28:37) - The revolution was the real Civil War (30:49) - The South bore the brunt of the fighting (33:41) - War is everywhere and women can't sit it out (36:38) - The heroism of ordinary people (38:07) - Riders and Spies: how women used being underestimated to serve the revolution (38:46) - Sybil Ludington (40:47) - Lydia Darragh (43:11) - Valley Forge and the army's instant cities (44:33) - Camp followers (46:16) - How laundresses saved Washington's army (49:07) - Molly Pitcher and women in combat (52:16) - Deborah Sampson (55:38) - Women Everywhere Except Politics Get the book🇺🇸 Buy the book in the US: https://bookshop.org/a/79408/9781400075324🇬🇧 Revolutionary Mothers is unavailable in the UK, but you can browse for other books on Women in the American Revolution(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript. Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  ★ Support this podcast ★

    American Revolution | Ep 1 | The political awakening of American women (Carol Berkin)

  4. Jun 6

    The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 2)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  In part 2 of our exploration of the American frontier, Megan Kate Nelson introduces two women who belie the homesteader image conservative "trad wives" like to harken back to. Polly Bemis was a Chinese immigrant who built a life and a community in Idaho, despite intense prejudice and stringent anti-Chinese immigration policies. Ella Watson was a self-made homesteader and small rancher, a so-called cattle queen who got on the wrong side of cattle barons in Wyoming and paid the price. Read more: How Chinese women were barred from the American dream  ★ Support this podcast ★ On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host Megan Kate Nelson - Guest What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comReply on Bluesky Email me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - 08 Megan Kate Nelson part 2 (01:18) - Start of interview (01:46) - Introducing Polly Bemis (03:04) - The majority-Chinese American West (06:55) - Polly Bemis traveled without moving (09:12) - Chinese women were the first targets of US anti-immigrant policy (09:50) - The aggressive anti-Chinese immigration policies of the United States (12:13) - How big government made the West for white men (13:43) - Ella Watson's broken American dream (14:25) - The cattle queens (23:03) - A high tolerance for risk (24:30) - Why correcting the Frontier myth matters today (27:06) - How trad wives utilise the American Frontier (30:21) - What moment in history should we revisit from women's perspective? (34:30) - Outro Get the book🇺🇸 Buy the book🇬🇧 Shop the UK bookshop (Megan Kate Nelson's The Westerners is only available in the US)(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript. Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!

    The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 2)

  5. May 24

    The American Frontier you never hear about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 1)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  The Western frontier is a foundational myth of the United States. Historian Megan Kate Nelson is here to complicate it with the stories of women who do not at all fit the image of the American pioneer you probably imagine. In part 1 of this two-parter conversation, she (re)introduces us to Sacajawea, the Native American woman who led the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific, and Gertrudis Barceló, an infamous gambling entrepreneur who became one of the richest people in the New Mexico territory. Members can listen to both parts of this conversation right away. Sign up at www.broadhistory.com/membership. ★ Support this podcast ★ On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host Megan Kate Nelson - Guest What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comReply on Bluesky Email me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - Part 1 (02:33) - Start of interview (03:00) - The imaginary of the American Frontier (06:57) - What is Manifest Destiny? (09:11) - The West before it was the American West (11:55) - Sacajawea's superhero origin story (15:03) - Sacajawea, an explorer in her own right (19:14) - Exploring as a postpartum mother and how Clark ended up raising Sacajawea's children (23:01) - How Sacajawea became a suffrage icon (26:47) - How   Gertrudis Barcelo made a fortune at Spanish monte (34:11) - The epitomy of the Western pioneer man -- in a Hispanic woman (38:27) - Part 2 teaser Get the book 🇺🇸 Buy "The Westerners" in the US bookstore🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores. "The Westerners" is not yet available in the UK unless as an import.)Click here to view the episode transcript. Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!

    The American Frontier you never hear about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 1)

  6. May 9

    History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (Kate Lister)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  The ancient Greeks believed a woman's womb wandered through her body and made her ill. Medieval Europeans believed a woman's orgasm was necessary for conception. And the Victorians believed masturbation would drive you to madness. Sex historian Dr. Kate Lister — host of Betwixt the Sheets and author of Flick: A History of Sexual Pleasure — joins me for a tour through the wildly strange, often infuriating history of women's sexuality. For most of that history, women were believed to be the more sex-crazed gender. What can we say, girls will be girls... ★ Support this podcast ★ On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host Kate Lister - Guest What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - AUDIO 07 Kate Lister (01:37) - Intro (03:06) - "Girls will be girls": women as the emotionally unstable, hypersexed gender (05:36) - Why is women's sexuality so much more policed th an men's? (07:40) - The medicalisation and pathologizing of sexuality or the Victorian terror of masturbation (11:30) - The wandering womb (13:16) - Women as baby-crazed, emotional beings (15:20) - Are we talking about the menopause too much? (16:31) - The first woman to describe a female orgasm (she was a medieval nun) (21:30) - "Sex means putting a penis into something" (24:08) - Why lesbians have been relatively left alone (27:31) - The invention of privacy (30:02) - Victorian middle-class morality and the angel in the house (33:42) - Empire and the racialisation of female purity (36:34) - "Go and ask your mother" (40:59) - Where does a sex historian find sources? (42:39) - Why researching the history of pleasure matters (46:22) - The final question (49:12) - Conclusion Get the book🇬🇧 Buy the book in the UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9178/9780857506436  🇺🇸 Shop in the US bookstore (Flick is not yet published in the US)(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript. Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!

    History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (Kate Lister)

  7. May 2

    The fire that started a Victorian gender war (long read)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men? ★ Support this podcast ★ On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: isa@broadhistory.comWatch & comment on Youtube Jump to: (00:00) - Intro (00:35) - Member shout-out (01:55) - Upcoming guests (03:04) - This week's story (04:25) -  Tuesday, May 4th, 1897: A fire at a Catholic charity sale. (08:13) - Cowardly Gentlemen and Working Class Heroes (10:43) - The "Knights Jitters" (11:54) - Heroes and martyrs in a political storm (14:32) - And women in all that? (16:41) - Did the behaviour of men cause more women to die? (17:56) - An intimate tragedy (18:46) - Outro Get the book🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop 🇺🇸 Shop in the US bookstore(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript. Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!

    The fire that started a Victorian gender war (long read)

  8. Apr 21

    The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries (long read)

    Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!  Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension. This is an audio read of The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries. ★ Support this podcast ★ On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - Host What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - The Gender Pension Gap of 1539 (01:17) -  The gender pension gap, or how women got screwed by the dissolution of monasteries. (02:37) - Dissolution 101 (04:01) - The (near) impossibility of marriage or work (06:00) -  Pay on your way in, get paid on your way out (08:20) - Sidebar: What happened to "Jillian Heron the idiot"? (09:57) - The making of a pension gap (11:25) - Sidebar: How do we know all this? (13:56) - Sidebar: Could you live on £2.67 a year? (15:00) - "Many a young nun proved an old beggar" (18:06) - Outro 🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop 🇺🇸 Shop in the US bookstore(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript. Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!

    The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries (long read)
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  • Creator
    Isabelle Roughol
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    13
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