Welcome to the Exploress,

time traveling through history, one era at a time.

I love learning about fascinating women in history. But so often, it feels like I’m appreciating them in a cultural vacuum. I mean, what was it really like to be them? To live in their particular time, place, and circumstance?

Welcome to The Exploress, a narrative history podcast where we’ll go time traveling through women’s history, era by era, immersing ourselves in the lived experiences of historical women. We’ll explore a day in the life of your average woman from a variety of different time periods, countries, and cultures, uncovering both the mundane and the bizarre. We’ll walk a mile in her shoes — and learn what shoes she was actually wearing. We’ll discover how women were expected to meet society’s demands to better understand all the ways they subverted them. We’ll go questing for the women behind the famous names we think we know, and meet ladies you’ve probably never heard of. So, lace up your boots.

let’s go traveling.

Welcome to season 6! Catch up on the latest episodes.

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episodes

Season 1: 19th Century America

Episode highlights include: Civil War Nurses, Lady Spies, Lady Soldiers, Sex & Prostitution in the 19th Century, Spiritualists & Mediums, Pioneer Women, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Lady’s Life in 19th Century America, and more. Listen Here!

Season 2: the ancient world

Episode highlights include: The Amazons & Ancient Warrior Women, Queen Olympias & Alexander the Great’s Women, Sappho & Sexuality in Ancient Greece, The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome (series), Cleopatra (series), The First Ladies of Rome (series), A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece, A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt, A Lady’s Life in Ancient Rome, and more. Listen Here!

Season 3: tudor england

Episode highlights include: Witch Hunts in Great Britain, A Lady’s Life in Tudor England (series), Religion with Queen Catherine of Aragon, Fashion with Queen Anne Boleyn, Childbirth with Queen Jane Seymour, Courtship with Queen Anne of Cleves, Sex with Queen Catherine Howard, Education with Queen Katherine Parr, Being Queen with Elizabeth I, and more. Listen Here!

Season 4: 1920s america

Episode highlights include: Flappers, The Women Who Supported Prohibition, The Women Who Defied Prohibition, A Lady’s Life in 1920s America (series), The Lady Killers of 1920s Chicago, Female Movie Stars of 1920s Hollywood, Black Female Entertainers of the 1920s and more. Listen Here!

Season 5: everywhere, everywhere all at once

Episode highlights include: A Lady’s Life in Tokugawa Japan (series featuring geisha, samurai warrior women, & more), Medieval Queens of the Crusades, the History of the Bikini, Lady Pirates & Queen Elizabeth I’s Golden Age of Piracy, Forty Elephants: The All-Female Crime Gang of 1920s London, and more. Listen Here!

Season 6: wherever our heart takes us

Upcoming episode highlights include: A Lady’s Life in the Viking Age (series), maybe some empresses, maybe a special girlie with a sword… look we could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you. You’ll just have to listen here to find out!