After around 20 new episodes, season 2 of the Vocabbett podcast is coming to a close! In episode 76, I dive into how I might be growing...

If you’ve seen The Durrells in Corfu , you’ll undoubtedly remember the slightly dotty daughter in the series, Margo. When I finished the show (a slightly heartbreaking moment – I hope they release a new season in the future!), I was curious about what happened next. Though it offers a fictionalized account of the Durrells’ lives, the characters were based on real people. To think of them in the clutches of World War II… In episode 75 of the Vocabbett podcast, I shared more a

We’ve all heard of Cleopatra, but how many people know she had a little sister — and a pretty remarkable one at that? Arsinoe IV was...

When most of us think of suffragettes (a.k.a. women who fought for the right to vote), we think of Susan B. Anthony or Emmeline...

Depiction of Anne Bonny via Wiki Commons “18th-century heiress-turned-pirate” may sound like the tagline of a cheesy romance novel, but remarkably, it’s a fairly accurate description of the indomitable Anne Bonny! A few episodes into our “Forgotten Women” mini-series — where I sneakily boost your vocabulary by sharing stories you probably  didn’t  learn about in school — we’re shedding light on one of the most famous female pirates from the “Golden Age” of piracy. It’s a stor

If you’re an Anglophile (lover of the English) like me, you’ve probably heard of Boudica, the warrior queen who took on the Romans. But...