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Vulgar History Books

Books about scandalicious women from history, as featured on the Vulgar History podcast.

Witches, Ghosts, And Monsters (Other Than The Patriarchy, But Also The Patriarchy) VIEW LIST (4 BOOKS)
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Women Trapped in Towers VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
The Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor That Time Forgot
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
Margaret Pole
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
Isabel the Queen: Life and Times
How To Lose A Queen in Nine Days VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
The Queen and the Heretic: How two women changed the religion of England
Catherine Parr: Wife, Widow, Mother, Survivor, the Story of the Last Queen of Henry VIII
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories
Henry VIII: The King and His Court
The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France
Women Leaders And The Men Who Whined About Them VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
Cleopatra: A Life
Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain
ÆThelflæd: Lady of the Mercians
ÆThelflæd: A Ladybird Expert Book: England's Forgotten Founder
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History VIEW LIST (5 BOOKS)
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair
A Net for Small Fishes
The Poison Bed
Internationale VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso
The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography
Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South
Forgotten Queens of Islam
The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender
The Hindus: An Alternative History
Recommended Historical Fiction VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)
Ariadne
The Silence of the Girls
The Women of Troy
The Song of Achilles
Circe
Outlawed
Kaikeyi
Sister Mother Warrior
Island Queen
In the Company of the Courtesan
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women
The Lion and the Rose
Lady of the Eternal City
The Serpent and the Pearl
Empress of the Seven Hills

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