Who Did What Now

Mar 07 2025 155 ep. 46 mins 1.7k
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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!
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133. America's Forgotten War on Women

Mar 07 2025 71 mins  
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 thousands of American women were arrested, forcibly examined and detained without due process, no trial and no evidence of a crime. Their offence? Being suspected of "immorality" under the social hygiene movement, also known as the Ameri

132. Nancy Wake - The Spy With the 5 Million Franc Bounty

Mar 03 2025 87 mins  
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 capture the freedom fighter for years and even placed a 5 million francs bounty on her head.Hosted by Katie Charlwood WishlistWishlistDonate at: Patreon Tip JarFollow me on…TwitterInstagramTikTokFacebookBusiness Enqu

131. Bessie Coleman - First Black Aviatrix

Feb 24 2025 50 mins  
Bessie Coleman defied the odds to become the first African American and Native American woman with a pilot’s license in the world! Denied opportunities at home, she went to France to learn to fly, returning as a daring stunt pilot who inspired generations. Listen now to be wowed by Queen BessHosted by Katie Charlwood WishlistWishlistDonate at: Patreon Tip JarFollow

130. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Feb 17 2025 59 mins  
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 harmless medical study turns in to a 40-year nightmare for hundreds of African American men in the South, This episode exposes the truth behind the US Public Health Service study that promised care but instead delivered deception, den

From the Vault - Mary Jane Kelly - The Ripper's Final Victim

Feb 10 2025 79 mins  
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 was an enigma, with a hidden past that no-one could quite figure out. In this episode I share what we do know about Mary Jane and then my friend Melissa from God's Favourites podcast has a chat about how Kelly's addition to the FIve jus

From the Vault - Catherine Eddowes - The Ripper's Fourth Victim

Feb 10 2025 54 mins  
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 we do know of about the Whitechapel murderers, the victims. Their lives, their stories. Let's hear about Catherine Eddowes, the fourth canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.Hosted by Katie CharlwoodI'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsWishlistW

From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride - The Ripper's Third Victim

Feb 10 2025 62 mins  
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, with so much focus on the killer, let's instead focus on the victim, the third canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.Hosted by Katie CharlwoodI'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsWishlistWishlistDonate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fun

From the Vault - Annie Chapman - The Ripper's Second Victim

Feb 10 2025 49 mins  
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 not deserve to have their stories a footnote for the lore of a Bogeyman as the second canonical victim of the serial killer known as Jack the RipperHosted by Katie CharlwoodI'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsWishlistWishlistDonate at: Pa

From the Vault - Polly Nichols - The Ripper's First Victim

Feb 10 2025 73 mins  
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 s=that started it all and led to crackpot theories and women being blamed for their own violent deaths at the hands of a man.Hosted by Katie CharlwoodI'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsWishlistWishlistDonate at: Patreon Smutty Litt

129. Joshua N. Haldeman - Elon Musk's Apartheid-Loving Grandfather

Feb 03 2025 72 mins  
Some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family prefer to put them on display. Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman was an apartheid-loving chiropractor, who was super into conspiracy theories and searching for a "long lost city" in his plane.Hosted by Katie CharlwoodI'm on