Unruly History podcast | Dr Gillian Kenny

A Geordie, an Irishwoman and a lesbian walk into a podcast booth…

It sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s an accurate description of Unruly History – a brand-new podcast about the stories, lives and beliefs that refuse tidy narratives.

Award-winning podcaster and historian Dr Emma Nagouse (You’re Dead to Me, Homeschool History and MUSES with Grammy-nominated Bastille) and medieval historian Dr Gillian Kenny (University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin) have teamed up with You’re Dead to Me producer Dr Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow to launch Unruly History.

History is full of people, moments, and ideas that have been quietly filed away: too inconvenient, too strange, or simply too ordinary to make the official version. Unruly History opens those files. This is a brand-new weekly podcast in which two historians make the case that what gets left out of the story is as revealing as what gets left in. And have a hell of a laugh along the way.

Listen here and join the Unruly Revolution

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Unruly Ireland

Irish history has more to tell us than the familiar stories suggest. On Unruly Ireland, I explore unfamiliar lives, magic, folklore and the everyday experiences of Irish people down the centuries, exploring some of the less well known parts of our past. I also share discoveries from the archives as my books take shape.

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Selected coverage of Unruly History

Screenshot of The Times website: a listing for Unruly History describing Emma Nagouse and Gillian Kenny as hosts of an entertaining series about stories from history that don’t fit a neat classification.

Screenshot of The Times website: “The best podcasts and radio shows of the week”, with the Unruly History artwork.

Screenshot of The Irish Times website quoting Gillian Kenny on Unruly History: history is full of people, moments and ideas that have been quietly filed away.

Photograph of The Observer’s “Staying in” audio page, headed “The witching hour”, with a review of Unruly History and a photograph of Gillian Kenny and Emma Nagouse.