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Vulgar History merit badges Hat

Description: This merit badge-inspired design rewards people with Vulgar History coded skills like: stitchery, partying, poisoning, and stabbing. Art by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com

Tags: feminism, podcasts, vulgar history
Vulgar History Brigade Hat

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

Tags: feminism, retro, retro vintage aesthetic, women, womens rights
Poorly Researched Hat

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/

Tags: 1990s, academia, cute, girlie, history
Vulgar History Varsity Hat

Description: The Vulgar History podcast was founded in 2019, and has been not taking history seriously ever since. Design by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com

Tags: college, history, podcasts, university, unserious
The Friend Hath Need of These Things Hat

Description: Because when you’re a genderless spirit, you get to have all the things.

Tags: history
Claire Clairmont: The Real Goth Queen Hat

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

Tags: candy goth, claire clairmont, frankenstein, goth, goth queen
Spiteful Hag Hat

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

Tags: 90s, crone, cute, feminism, feminist
Don't Stop DeGuise'n (Dark Colours) Hat

Description: The De Guise family were very powerful in Renaissance France. Their motto was not, but could have been, Don't Stop De Guise'n!

Tags: france, french history, hard rock, history, inspiration
Very Biased Hat

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)

Tags: cute, feminist, girlie, glitter, sparkly
Rambling and Unscholarly Hat

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)

Tags: 1990s, 80s, 90s, cute, eighties
Flying Squadron Corset Hat

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

Tags: french history, history, lingerie, mary queen of scots, spies
Flying Squadron Hat

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

Tags: 90s, assassins, catherine de medici, feminism, feminist
Renaissance Reformation Girl Squad Hat

Description: Catherine Parr, Anne Askew, Katherine Willoughby, and other protestant women of the Renaissance used to hang out and talk about Reformation, ergo they were the Renaissance Reformation Girl Squad! Art by Karyn Moynihan karynmoynihan.com

Tags: equality, feminism, girl power, reformation, renaissance
Goth Queen Mom Friend Hat

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

Tags: books, feminism, feminist, frankenstein, goth
Hortensia Is A Flower Hat

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.

Tags: british history, charles ii, english history, flowers, french history
Frances Howard Tyttes Outtes Hat

Description: A legend in her time and ours, Frances Howard is reimagined with her catchphrase rendered in 16th century script by artist Deborah Wong.

Tags: british history, english history, frances howard, tudor, vulgar history
Empress Sisi Was a Horse Girl Hat

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.

Tags: austria hungary, empress elisabeth of austria, empress sisi, empress sissi, horse girl
Catalina de Erauso Llama Hat

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).

Tags: basque, catalina de erauso, llama, playing card, south american history

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