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Who Did What Now
Whoever said history was boring obviously wasn’t paying attention. Each week, join Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books, as she delves into the people, places and events that make history a bit more interesting! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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164. The North Berwick Witch Trials
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163. The Pendle Witches
It is the season of the witch and so get ready for England's darkest hour, the trial of the Pendle Witches, in which families are condemned by the tes...
162. Josephine Baker - Death of a Showgirl - Part III
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Welcome to the final installment in the Josephine Baker Saga: Death of a Showgirl. She lived a full lif...
161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighter - Part II
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Josephine Baker had a life so full it could not be contained by one episode alone! In this eoisode Jose...
160. Josephine Baker - Part I
Jospehine Bake lived a full life, so much so that it was impossible to fit the bisexual, burlesque icon's story into just one episode! So welcome to p...
159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon
Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public M...
158. Liane de Pougy - Courtesan, Princess, Nun
Burlesque's beginnings blossomed out of La Belle Époque, the interwar period between the Franco-Prussian war and WW1. An era where creativity and the...
157. The Battle of Castle Itter
The Battle of Castle Itter has to be one of the weirdest battle of the Second World War, it's the SS against Wermacht, the Austrian Resistance, US tro...
156. Amon Göth - The Butcher of Płaszów
Amon Leopold Göth was an SS Schutzstafeeln, the commandant of the Płaszów labour camp in Kraków, Poland and a man that was such a monster that Steven...
155. Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to a...
154. Irma Grese - The Hyena of Auschwitz
Irma Grese, the baby faced Beast of Belsen and the Hyena pf Auschwitz who revelled in the pain and sufferening of others, especially if she was the on...
153. Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riot wasn't actually a riot, don't let the name fool you, it is an often overlooked attack on ethnic minorities in Los Angeles which bec...
152. Kate Warne - America's First Female Detective
Kate Warne, a woman in history we should know more about. The first "lady" detective in the USA, she solved crimes, performed subtrefuge and even thwa...
151 . John Brown - Part II: Heroism is Treason
In the second half of the John Brown tale, we get to hear about Brown's FAFO era, from Bleeding Kansas to the guerilla warfare at Osawatomie, the Batt...
150. John Brown - Part I: American Abolitionist
Happy Independence Day! It's July 4th which means that it's the perfect time to talk about some classic American history. I was hoping to get this int...
149. Mary Astor - Hollywood and Scandal
A film noir femme fatale, actress Mary Astor found herself embroiled in a custody battle and "crime of the century!" A scandal so inticing that it kno...
148. King Edward II - Bisexual Chaos Monarch
King Edward II had everything he needed in life, a great education, a throne to sit upon, huge tracts of land and a beautiful face... unfortunately hi...
147. Alan Turing - The Codebreaker
Alan Turing is a man who deserved to be celebrated, a cryptanalyst, mathematician and codebreaker who helped win the Second World War, A man who was p...
146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon
It's Pride month and so it's the perfect time to tack about trans cultural icon, Billy Lee Tipton - a transgender jazz musician, who performed all ove...
145. Louisa May Alcott
This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her a...
144. The Marchioness Disaster
1989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than...
143. When MIT & Quaker Oats Tested Radiation on Children
Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual d...
142. Harmen van den Bogaert
Harmen van den Bogaert was one of the earliest colonisers settlers in 17th Century North America, an ambassador to the Mohawks, he has a bright future...
141. That Time the USA Banned Sliced Bread
Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewi...
140. Pope Innocent VIII - Anything but Innocent
What happens when a pope trades prayers for power? When you dig into the wild story of Pope Innocent VIII - a man whose reign was packed with shady de...
139. Alice Crimmins - Mother on Trial
In 1965 Alice Crimmins became the centre of one of America's most sensational murder trials, accused not only killing her children, but of violating s...
138. Murder Mystery on the High Seas
On a quiet night in July 1896, the merchant ship, the Herbert fuller was sailing swiftly to Argentina, it's hull full of timber to transport. But on t...
137. Bass Reeves - The Real Lone Ranger
Bass Reeves was one of the Frontiers greatest heroes, a skilled tracker, a sharpshooter and a formerly enslaved man who became one of the first Africa...
136. The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
On a brisk December afternoon, a young socialite vanished without a trace...
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135. Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford, the Hollywood star who loved cheekbones and hated wire hangers. A woman who made her name on the silver screen by dancing, bitching and...
134. Dr Gisella Perl - Abortionist at Auschwitz
Dr Gisella Perl is a woman worth remembering this Women's History Month, a gynaecologist at a time when women, let alone Jewish women, were entering a...
133. America's Forgotten War on Women
The American Plan was one of the largest violations of women's rights in US history, but it's one of the least remembered. For over half a century tho...
132. Nancy Wake - The Spy With the 5 Million Franc Bounty
Nancy Wake was a member of the French Resistance who was such a pain in the derriere to the Gestapo that they named her the White Mouse. They tried to...
131. Bessie Coleman - First Black Aviatrix
Bessie Coleman defied the odds to become the first African American and Native American woman with a pilot’s license in the world! Denied opportunitie...
130. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has to be one of the most shocking and unethical medical experiments in United States history. What was perceived to be a...
From the Vault - Mary Jane Kelly - The Ripper's Final Victim
From the Vault - The fifth and final canonical victim of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper...allegedly... was Mary Jane Kelly, a woman who wa...
From the Vault - Catherine Eddowes - The Ripper's Fourth Victim
From the Vault - With the news cycle circling a tenuous link to a Jewish immigrant in London, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, let's focus on what...
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride - The Ripper's Third Victim
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride suffered in life an death, all because of the patriarchal views that existed in the Victorian era and even today, wi...
From the Vault - Annie Chapman - The Ripper's Second Victim
From the Vault - The life of Annie Chapman, another weary woman in Whitechapel who suffered. Her life so often eclipsed by her death, the victims do...
From the Vault - Polly Nichols - The Ripper's First Victim
From the Vault catch up on the lives of the five canonical victims of "Jack the Ripper" starting with Mary Ann Nichols, Polly to her friends. The one...