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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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewives everywhere!
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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 deals, family favours, and political chaos, it's like Game of Thrones... but in the Vatican. Let's unpack the secrets, scandals, and surprises behind one of the most unforgettable popes in history.
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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 society's expectation of motherhood. Alice's story was shaped as much by misogyny and by mystery. But the question remains, did Alice Crimmins kill her children, or was she a victim of the court of public opinion?
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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 that calm, quiet night, a stifling scream is heard and soon it is discovered that the Captain, his wife and the second mate have all been killed in a bloodbath. The remaining 9 souls aboard were alone at sea, a killer amongst them...
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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 African American U.S. Marshalls. A master of disguise, he hunted outlaws and brought them to justice, and he even went on to inspire the tale of The Lone Ranger.
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On a brisk December afternoon, a young socialite vanished without a trace...
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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 sometimes boinking someone else's husband. Jump right in and lets hear about this icon who's as famous for her feuds as she was for her films...
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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 and excelling in medicine. A woman, a prisoner, a doctor who would work against the odds to save as many lives as she could in the notorious death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Warning, this week's episode is not for the faint of heart, a big huge trigger warning for all of the violence an...
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 American Plan.
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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.
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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 Bess
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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, denying treatment even after a cure was discovered AND...
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 just doesn't add up and how she may bot be a victim of...
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.
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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.
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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 Ripper
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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.
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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.
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Before Froot Loops, Special K and Rice Krispies, there was Dr John Harvey Kellogg, a devout Seventh Day Adventist whose only fears were meat-based germs, racial integration and syphilis, a man whose favourite pastimes were ensuring people had enough yoghurt shot into their arses and bullying his younger brother, William Keith Kellogg.
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In the 1980s in the idyllic town of Bruges, Belgium, an order of elderly nuns, the Poor Clares decided to stick two fingers up to the Church and trade their convent for a castle with the help of their handyman...
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