Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood
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!Social links:
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205. Unit 731 - Japan's Covert Human Experimentation Program
Unit 731 is one of WWII's lesser known horrors. Imperial Japan's covert biological warfare research and development unit that engaged in brutal and inhumane experimentation on victims known as "logs." These prisoners were infected with pathogens, deadly diseases from dysentery to the plague, studi…
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204. The Bitch of Buchenwald - Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch is one of the most notorious women of the Third Reich, a women whose crimes were so heinous, she would be known worldwide as the Bitch of Buchenwald, stories of her deeds printed in newspapers across the world. But did this woman really parade around the slave labour camp in nothing but …
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203. Coco Chanel - The Fascist Fashionista - From the Vault
Coco Chanel is one of the most iconic names in fashion, popularised the tan, invented the little black dress LBD, etc, unfortunately she was also a Nazi collaborator. Hosted by Katie Charlwood BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! L…
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202. Aaron Burr - Sir!
Aaron Burr is a man you may know as the guy who lost a popularity contest to Thomas Jefferson and then shot a guy who rap-sings. But the story of Aaron Burr, Sir, is much more interesting that Lin Manuel Miranda put on the stage. So curl up with your cocoa and lets hear all about Aaron Burr! Hoste…
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201. The Protest Psychosis
During the Civil Rights Era, a new diagnosis emerged, a very specific form of schizophrenia that disproportinally targed Black Men... Hosted by Katie Charlwood BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Dona…
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200. Belle Gunness - Butcher of Men
200th Episode!!! We're on episode 200 and to celebrate here is a bonus episode about a murderess, Lady Bluebeard, Butcher of Men, Hell's Bell, the one, the only, Belle Gunness, a woman who may be America's most prolific serial killer. Just when you thought the story couldnt get worse, it did. Host…
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199. Inherited Wounds : Indigenous Boarding School System
The United States of America is 250 years old..ish, but in becoming the USA, entire communities, nations and cultures were crushed beneath teh wheel of "progress." Indigenous people in North America were removed from their land, had their practices, knowledge and culture stripped from them. One of …
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198. The Life and Death Of Marsha P Johnson
Marsha P Johnson is a queer icon, the Saint of Christopher Street, an important member of teh LGBTQ+ community, who advocated for equal rights, fought for the disenfranchised and preotected queer youth. A pillar of the community, she struggled in a world that did not accept her. Her life was one th…
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197. The AIDS Crisis
In the early 1980s, doctors in the US started noticing clusters of unusual illnesses like cancers and pmeumonia in healthy young men, the only thing that connected them, was that they were sexually active with other men. An epidemic emerged, a disease with no name, as a mysterious, highly fatal ill…
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196. The Lavender Scare
In the era of McCarthyism, thousands of people were forced out of the federal government for being gay. Victims purged from positions, because being a homosexual was to be a threat to to national security...allegedlys Hosted by Katie Charlwood Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day & Nights…
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