Bags
Description: The Regency Era? More like the Regency QueERA! This design features queer people from the 1800s: Mary Shelley, the Ladies of Llangollen, La Chevalière d'Éon, Anne Lister, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. Design by Jan Jupiter (jupiterillustraties.com/
Regency QueERA Bag
$25.82
Description: The Regency Era is famous from Bridgerton, Jane Austen adaptations, and a million romance novels. Caroline of Brunswick was a real-life rebel of the Regency Era, and this design celebrates her legacy! Learn more about her in the new book Rebel of the Regency by Ann Foster.
Rebel of the Regency Era Bag
$25.82
Description: Listeners of the Vulgar History brigade are known as the Tits Out Brigade. This design celebrates this elite group! Art by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com
Vulgar History Brigade Bag
$25.82
Description: This one goes out to all the people doing research poorly! And also to those who are incorrectly accused of this misdeed. Mwah! Design by Siobhan Gallagher https://www.siobhan-gallagher.com/
Poorly Researched Bag
$25.82
Freelance Queen Bag
$25.82
Description: The Vulgar History podcast was founded in 2019, and has been not taking history seriously ever since. Design by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com
Vulgar History Varsity Bag
$25.82
Description: Peg Plunkett was a brothel owner in 18th-century Dublin and was one of the most important people of that era. This design imagines the merch she may have made if the technology had existed back then. Design by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com
Peg Plunkett's Irish Pub Bag
$25.82
Description: The Mazarinettes were seven women living in 17th century France known as the It Girls of their era. Most of the Mazarinettes were the daughters of an astrologer, and Marie Mancini (one of the Mazarinettes) published a book about astrology. Design by Ann Foster.
Les Mazarinettes Bag
$25.82
Description: Claire Clairmont is best known as the stepsister of Mary Shelley, and the mother of one of Lord Byron's children. But did you know she lived a fabulous long life of her own, and exemplifies the candy goth aesthetic? Ergo, she is the TRUE Goth Queen. Art by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com
Description: Celebrate the holidays with the Vulgar History podcast in this classy, classic design by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com
Tits The Season Bag
$25.82
Description: In 1553, the poet Nisayi wrote an elegy for the death of Prince Mustafa of the Ottoman Empire, in which she called the imperial consort Hürrem Sultan a "spiteful hag". Design by Siobhan Gallagher siobhan-gallagher.com
Spiteful Hag Bag
$25.82
Description: John Knox was a Presbyterian minister in 16th century Scotland and he didn't approve of most things that women did. Therefore his ghost would probably point at you and yell WHOOOOOORES. Art by Jan Jupiter jupiterillustraties.com/
Whooooooores Bag
$25.82
Description: Mary, Queen of Scots had four ride or die BFFs: Mary Beaton, Mary Seton, Mary Fleming, and Mary Livingston aka the Marys. This shirt is in their honour. Design by Ann Foster.
The Four Marys Bag
$25.82
Description: While imprisoned in England, Mary Queen of Scots made an embroidery called A CATTE. This take on that design, featuring a much happier mouse and a cat(te) inspired by Hepburn Foster (co-host of Vulgar History podcast) is by Jan Jupiter (jupiterillustraties.com)
A Catte Named Hepburne Bag
$25.82
Description: Are you a person with an opinion? Then like the Vulgar History podcast, you may be very biased! Own this description in a sweet throwback design by Siobhan Gallagher (siobhan-gallagher.com)
Very Biased Bag
$25.82
Description: Are you, like one reviewer described the Vulgar History podcast, "rambling and unscholarly"? Own it in this sweet retro design by Siobhan Gallagher (siobhan-gallagher.com)
Rambling and Unscholarly Bag
$25.82
Description: Catherine de'Medici was Queen of France in the 16th century. She had dozens of sexy women who worked for her as spies, known as the Flying Squadron. Artwork by Jan Jupiter jupiterillustraties.com
Flying Squadron Corset Bag
$25.82
Description: Catherine de'Medici was Queen of France in the 16th century. She had dozens of sexy women who worked for her as spies, known as the Flying Squadron. Artwork by Jan Jupiter jupiterillustraties.com
Flying Squadron Bag
$25.82
Description: Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was both a goth queen (losing her virginity on her mother's grave) and a mom friend (making sure her dirtbag pals ate meals and had a place to live). Ergo: goth queen, mom friend! Art by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com
Goth Queen Mom Friend Bag
$25.82
Description: This design is inspired by a 17th century portrait of Hortense Mancini. Hortense was a French noblewoman who kept flowering and blossoming no matter what her circumstances were. Her name, "Hortense" is a version of the word "Hortensia" which is a kind of flower. Design by Deborah Wong.
Hortensia Is A Flower Bag
$25.82
Description: Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Empress Sisi, was never happier or more at peace than when she was horseback riding. This design by Deborah Wong, inspired by the famous 1865 portrait of Sisi by Franz Winterhaler, shows the free spirit she was forced to hide behind the facade of laced-up Empress.
Description: Catalina de Erauso was a Basque person whose adventures in Spanish colonial South America (as outlined in her memoir, The Lieutenant Nun) included card game based stabbings and getting hired to courier thousands of llamas. This design by Deborah Wong is inspired by the design of Spanish playing cards of the 17th century, similar to what Catalina would have played with. Rather than the horse on the actual cards, Catalina is pictured alongside a llama (obviously).
Catalina de Erauso Llama Bag
$25.82
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