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Vulgar History merit badges Posters and Art

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 Posters and Art

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
Peg Plunkett's Irish Pub Posters and Art

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

Tags: irish pub, peg plunkett, st patricks day, vulgar history, womens history
Claire Clairmont: The Real Goth Queen Posters and Art

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
Her Name Was Lola (Montez) Posters and Art

Description: Lola Montez was an Irish-born woman in the 19th century who pretended to be Spanish for grifter purposes. She was famous for her spider dance, and for getting in a whip fight with a journalist in Australia. Design by Iris Simancas irissimancas.com

Tags: history, irish, lola montez, pinup, pinup girls
William Cecil Motivational Poster Posters and Art

Description: William Cecil was an influential leader in Tudor England. And you are at least as good a leader as he was.

Tags: british history, elizabethan, english history, inspirational, motivational
Rambling and Unscholarly Posters and Art

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 Posters and Art

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
Renaissance Reformation Girl Squad Posters and Art

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
La Chevalière d'Éon Says Trans Rights Posters and Art

Description: This design by Jan Jupiter (jupiterillustraties.com) is inspired by the iconic Chevalière d'Éon, a trans woman who lived in 18th-century France.

Tags: chevalier deon, chevaliere deon, french history, lgbtqia, pride
Hortensia Is A Flower Posters and Art

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 Posters and Art

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 Posters and Art

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 Posters and Art

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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