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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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in 1975 two boys are playing out by the ruins of the old Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway, ireland. They find a hole filled with very small bones. They tell everyone what tehy find and it is assumed that this is a famine grave. It's sealed up and ignored for 40 years until someone starts questioning what happened to the 796 children that died in The Home. Get ready for a very Irish scandal.
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The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were working and residing in them. Their history should not be forgotten.
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Countess Constance Markievicz was an aristocrat, suffragist, artist and rebel leader. She was an integral part of te Easter Rising and in Ireland gaining indepence from the Britsh Empire.
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Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who should have been enjoying her retirement and provincial life had it all come crashing down when she was brought into a police station in November 2020, where she was faced with the fact that she was abused by strangers for a decade, all of which was facilitated by her husband of half a century, Dominique Pelicot. She would be the centre of France's biggest rape trial, a symbol of femninsm and survivors a...
Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember,
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Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and Black scientists. She was a mathematician, a human computer and an American hero. She's got the medals to prove it!
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It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the beacon of ballroom. Joy is an act of resistance, so listen up to the story of the first Queen of Drag!
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Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to freedom and then fights the very nation that kept him in chains, well that's something worth talking about, welcome to the life of Robert Smalls.
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On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. So much of her life and death twisted by myth and bias...
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On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia
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John George Haigh murdered at least six people over the course of five yers 1944-1949. A notorious fraudster he killed for convenience...and profit, and tried to dispose of his victims by liquifying them in barrels of acid, earning him the moniker The Acid Bath Killer.
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On the 9th June 1946, a shot rings out from the bedroom of the 20 year old monarch, Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam.
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This is the second half the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, where the Phantom Killer spread fear and paranoia through the twin city of Texarkana, leaving a trail of blood in his wake...
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In 1946 the twin city of Texarkana would be haunted for by a masked stalking lovers lanes for his victims. The predator's reign of terror lasted 10 weeks, creating hysteria and panic in this somewhat gentle Southern community. And it all started with an attack on two such lovers on one fateful February night...
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Olivier Levasseur showed up at the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy, plundering his way through both sides of the Atlantic, and claiming a booty second to that of Henry Avery himself, loot so astounding that treasure hunters have been trying to solve the mysterious cryptogram and find the hidden treasure of La Buse...
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Continuing our Pirate month, get ready for the tale of Jeanne de Clisson, the Lioness of Brittany, who swore revenge against the Kingdom of France and the man upon the French throne for taking from her that which he held dear... and she would have her revenge.
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Welcome to the second half of the tale of the infamous Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum, the Privateer, or professional pirate during the Buccaneering Era in the Golden Age of Piracy, many tales and pirate adventures are based on the excursions by this fella from Wales. So during this piracy month, Henry Morgan, the King of Buccaneers...
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...Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum, was a Privateer, or professional pirate during the Buccaneering Era in the Golden Age of Piracy, many tales and pirate adventures are based on the excursions by this fella from Wales. So during this piracy month, enjoy part 1 of teh life of Henry Morgan, the King of Buccaneers...
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From the Vault - the stpry of Grainne O Maille, the Irish Pirate Queen, a woman who has often been referred to as "Grace" which has never been has her name and to call her that is to steal a woman's name from her, which is not only crappy, but bad storytelling. Antwat enjoy the first tale in a month of pirates, yo ho me hearty yo ho!
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When the 1893 World's Fair hit Chicago, the city was aghast and excited by the dance du ventre that shimmied through the Streets of Cairo procession at the Great Columbian Exhibition. People clambered to see the woman who brought the belly dance to America, a performer that went by the name Little Egypt, but who was she and how did she influence American Burlesque for years to come..?
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