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 into one epidoe but alas, there's too much to tell. so join me for Part I of the tale of John Brown, the American Abolitionist, Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A F...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 150
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 knocked the news of fascists off of the front page of the newspapers. To start off our US History month, the American starlet and the purple diary scandal! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O...
Jun 30, 2025•56 min•Ep. 149
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 his greatest achievement as King was having a pirate beoyfriend Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 148
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 possibly neurodivergent and definitely homosexual. This pride month I am so excited to finally tell you about about the genius, Alan Turing. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 147
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 over the country, had five dogs, five wives and a great sense of humour. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22 Business Enquiries: katie@w...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 146
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 as the writer of the classic novel, Little Women, but Alcott had an interesting life that is only hinted at in her novels Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. D...
Jun 03, 2025•48 min•Ep. 145
1989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than an hour later, over a third of these people would lose their lives after the boat was struck by a large dredger. For the survivors and the victims families, the pain had only begun. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Face...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 144
Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual disabilities skills that they would be able to have a better life. A mission that changed over time, instead of providing skills ans support, the children were treated as lab rats, with some even tested with radiation. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTo...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 143
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 which leads to what the Dutch Republic would call a "bad fate." Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Irelan...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 142
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! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22 Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/who...
Apr 29, 2025•50 min•Ep. 141
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. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagr...
Apr 21, 2025•35 min•Ep. 140
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? Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Foll...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 139
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... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bott...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 138
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. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Just in Case Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Kat...
Apr 01, 2025•46 min•Ep. 137
On a brisk December afternoon, a young socialite vanished without a trace... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22 Business Enquiries: [email protected] Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Mar 25, 2025•56 min•Ep. 136
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... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Po...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 135
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 and abuse. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets ...
Mar 11, 2025•51 min•Ep. 134
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. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Follow me on… Twitter Instagram Ti...
Mar 08, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 133
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 Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: [email protected] Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patr...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 132
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 Hosted by Katie Charlwood Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Tip Jar Follow me on… Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: [email protected] Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! ...
Feb 25, 2025•50 min•Ep. 131
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 readily available. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Yo...
Feb 18, 2025•59 min•Ep. 130
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 Jack after all... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get You...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 20 min
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 Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Bus...
Feb 11, 2025•54 min
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 Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: [email protected] Fan Mail: Katie...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 2 min
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 Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: katie@wh...
Feb 10, 2025•50 min
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 Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: [email protected] Fan...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min
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 Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitt...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 129
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. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at: Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund Follow me on… Instagram Twitter Bluesky TikTo...
Jan 27, 2025•55 min•Ep. 128
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... I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at : Patreon Smutty Little Dress Fund (It's my birthday this month) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Business Enquiries: [email protected] Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See ...
Nov 26, 2024•48 min•Ep. 127
Cork-born Nellie Cashman emigrated to America and went on to be a total badass, a female prospector, business-owner and genuinely good person. It's a tough time of year and so I decided that for the month of November that I'm going to focus on the fun, ridiculous or downright cool parts of history. Also fairly certain you were traumatised enough in October! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Wishlist Wishlist Donate at...
Nov 12, 2024•43 min•Ep. 126
