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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New episode of Betwixt the Sheets with the incredible Dr @k8lister.bsky.social where we talk about 19th-century syphilis, "no nose" clubs, and, of course, the real Sherlock Holmes. Stay tuned!

A photo of Lindsey and Kate holding various historical objects in a studio, surrounded by books.

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Ann Pryor @annpkensingtonbks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A rousing, witty history of women enjoying #sex with themselves, sex with each other, & occasionally sex with men as well - from Mesopotamia to the #manosphere. Perfect for #romance bookstores, #LGBTQ+, or right there on the shelf in the er, G-spot. bit.ly/Flck #ewgc #sexy @k8lister.bsky.social

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Talking to the absolutely wonderful Philippa Gregory about her latest book, Royal Witch, which tells the extraordinary story of Eleanor Cobham, the woman who managed to marry the king regent and then get herself hauled up on a charge of treasonable necromancy.

Phillipa Gregory and Kate lister sat opposite each other, in front of a bookcase full of books.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Tudor-tastic legend Kate Williams about the “9 day queen,” Lady Jane Grey. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and you can now watch us over on YT!

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the marvellous Zack White about Napoleon’s Boner Part. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and now you can watch us on YT as well.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The gaudiest symbol of the upper class is out of fashion – I couldn’t be happier. If you need the whole world to know how rich you are, just print out your bank statement and tape it to your forehead inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

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The gaudiest symbol of the upper class is out of fashion – I couldn't be happier

Kate Lister: If you need the whole world to know how rich you are, just print out your bank statement and tape it to your forehead

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If anyone is at a loose end tomorrow evening at 7, I am giving an online talk at The Trouble Club about my new book, FLICK: The Story of Female Pleasure. You can get a ticket here thetroubleclub.com/whats-on/dr-...

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Dr Kate Lister: Just Give It a Little Flick 🫦

A night to celebrate the women who, quite literally, came before us.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the utterly spectacular Casta Hex about the fashion and makeup of #MarieAntoinette Listen wherever you get your podcasts and we’re now available on YouTube as well! X

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the awesomely awesome Ashley Douglas about her groundbreaking research into the life of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho Listen wherever you get your podcasts! (And don’t forget we’re now on YouTube too!)

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hello lovelies! If you are in the Gloucester area, I’m talking to the fabulous Janina Ramirez about my new book FLICK: The Story of Female Pleasure on Saturday, Sep 19th. We’ll be at Scriptorium Buttery, Blackfriars Priory, GL1 2HS, at 8pm www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/flick/

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/09/2026

Tomorrow on @thisguysucked.com: an episode featuring Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social that I can only really describe as a fever dream.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the classically fantastic emmasouthon about the popular idea that Ancient Rome was just wall to wall orgies. Listen wherever you get your podcasts - AND you can now also watch and subscribe on YouTube. youtube.com/@betwixtthes...

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 14/09/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the episode that has inspired the strongest reaction from me thus far, featuring the brilliant Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social and this f***ing guy

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous professor Hanna Diamond about her work on the legendary dancer, fashion icon, allied spy, and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In case you missed it, Betwixt the Sheets is now available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. Please subscribe so I can have more subscribers than Dan. youtube.com/@betwixtthes...

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking about the disastrous love life of Mary Queen of Scots with the one and only Estelle Paranque Now available on our brand new YouTube channel! youtube.com/@betwixtthes...

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello my lovely Betwixters! If you enjoy Betwixt the Sheets in your earholes, then you can now have it in your eyeballs too! We have set up shop on YouTube and you can watch me chinwagging historical naughtiness right here. Please subscribe and follow along for more. Xxx youtu.be/UKaPO7aZ_fg?...

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Dan Snow On The Naughty Nelson and Lady Hamilton

YouTube video by Betwixt The Sheets

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, we are talking about the penises on the #BayeuxTapestry, with the fabulous David Musgrove. Listen whenever you get your podcasts

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am deeply honoured to have been asked to be a patron of the historic Josephine Butler society.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the classically fantastic @emmasouthon.bsky.social about her brand new book on slavery in the Roman world. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. X

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the gorgeously brainy Gareth Russell about scandal and shenanigans onboard the #Titanic. Here we are paying the subject the gravitas it deserves. Listen whenever you get your podcasts.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Have you ever tried dating in a British heatwave? Well don’t. Just don’t. It is grim and clammy out here, take it from a woman who has tried.” inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

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The summer that killed my sex life

Kate Lister: I am taking my loins off the meat market until the weather cools down

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Update on how to vote for the listeners choice award this year (sorry they’ve made it weirdly complicated!) Here’s the link www.britishpodcastawards.com/listeners-ch...

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the one and only @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the scandalous romance between Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton (with a slight detour around bull insemination) Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Tudor-tastic Hayley Nolan about her new book on the nun who prophesied Henry VIII’d marriage to Anne Boleyn would fail (spoiler - he didn’t take that very well) Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Trouble Club @thetroubleclub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🚨 NEW EVENT🚨 Dr Kate Lister: Just Give It a Little Flick 🫦 From Ancient Mesopotamian sex goddesses to the pill, @k8lister.bsky.social shows us how women’s sexual pleasure was controlled, understood and enjoyed across history tinyurl.com/26vbc3hh #Sex #SexPositivity #FemalePleasure #Pleasure

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Dr Kate Lister: Just Give It a Little Flick 🫦

A night to celebrate the women who, quite literally, came before us.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the queen herself @goingmedieval.bsky.social about the medieval mess that was Heloise and Abelard. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wearing historic artefacts as jewellery or wearing historic garments on the red carpet can fuck off into the sun. inews.co.uk/opinion/thin...

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Of all the things rich people have ruined, one thing infuriates me

Kate Lister: The privatisation of history enrages me like nothing else

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the totally delicious Gareth Russell about the Tudor Queen Catherine Howard, as well as how to best turn down a dinner invitation Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I haven’t spent 10 years fighting cyclopes, Laestrygonians, and monsters of the underworld to get home BUT I have travelled from Birmingham to Leeds on a Sunday with CrossCountry trains, which is basically the same thing.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Did the hobbits have to get up super early to diffuse and scrunch their hair on the morning of a battle, because damn!

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Classically fabulous, Professor Ruby Blondell, about the story of #HelenOfTroy Why didn’t she get it on with Achilles? Did she go willingly with Paris? And Was she just a pretty face? Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Have a listen / watch of me talking to Anthony Delaney about one of my most favourite historical heroines, Ida Craddock. She was a 19th century sex education pioneer, yoga legend, and fearless campaigner against censorship … and yes, she had sex with ghosts as well. youtu.be/nCre2osx0NI?...

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The Woman Who Had A GHOST LOVER | After Dark

YouTube video by After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sometimes I think I’d like a partner to look after me when I’m sick, cook nice food, and ask me how my day was. Then I realise what I really want is to be rich, single and have a staff.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fire-breathing legend that is Jasmine Elmer about her brand new book on women who slayed dragons 🐉

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“But there is another PM symptom I want to share with you, because I don’t see it being discussed.. Off-the-chart levels of horniness – and it’s getting out of control. Last week, a delivery guy asked me where I wanted my package and I called him “daddy”. inews.co.uk/opinion/trut...

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The truth about perimenopause and a raging libido

I simply do not have the time my hormones are currently requiring me to spend thinking about Jason Momoa or Magic Mike

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Jennifer Brier about the SanDiego “lesbian blood sisters, who set up a blood drive to donate blood to support gay men during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am back once again talking to the fabulous Mick LaSalle about one and only, Marlene Dietrich. Was her reputation for promiscuity well deserved? (Spoiler: no, it wasn’t. She was much worse than that)

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the rootin tootin fabulous Brian Castner about sex work and the Alaska Goldrush Listen wherever you get your podcasts

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the wonderful, the amazing Professor Julie Wheelwright about the legendary courtesan and completely crap spy, Mata Hari. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Isabella🦋 @evendia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"These silly, silly women, not reading Proust and James Joyce on their lunch breaks. How dare they enjoy a simple plotline with a happy ending and a werewolf getting rogered along the way!" AHAHAHAHAHA, what a breath of fresh air is this article?! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My response to the two articles dragging women reading romantasy novels, last week. “Christ! Can’t a girl enjoy a vampire orgy in peace anymore? Is the world not miserable enough without demanding we grapple with post-modern, literary fragmentation in our down time?” inews.co.uk/opinion/new-...

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There’s a new moral panic about women’s sexual preferences

Can’t a girl enjoy a vampire orgy in peace?

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, we are getting frilly and fabulous with Marissa Vigneault to discuss the history of #Burlesque Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Christine Adams @profchrisadams.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Had a ton of fun doing this podcast; @k8lister.bsky.social is a terrific interviewer. Find out what Madame Du Barry was really like! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Supersluts of History: Royal Mistress Madam du Barry

Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · June 12 · 46m

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Whenever anyone says something like, “historians believe…” please remember that I’m a historian and I still won’t eat apple pips in case a tree grows out my head and I die.

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the biblically epic Dr Dylan Johnson about the historical origins of the Adam and Eve creation story. What does it mean? Who first wrote about it? Do other religions have similar stories? And was Eve really to blame? Listen wherever you get your podcasts

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