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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!
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Episodes
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood167. The McDonalds Hot Coffee Case
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!! See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!! Get Your Tickets In the mid-nineties a woman made headlines all over the…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood166. The Salem Witch Trials
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!! See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!! Get Your Tickets It's time for the most famous witch trial in American…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood165. The Vardo Witch Trials
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!! See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!! Get Your Tickets The witch craze moves North and soon a small islet in…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood164. The North Berwick Witch Trials
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!! See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!! Get Your Tickets As we continue spooky season, how coud we discuss witches…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood163. The Pendle Witches
It is the season of the witch and so get ready for England's darkest hour, the trial of the Pendle Witches, in which families are condemned by the testimony of…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood162. Josephine Baker - Death of a Showgirl - Part III
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER! Welcome to the final installment in the Josephine Baker Saga: Death of a Showgirl. She lived a full life, fro rags to…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighter - Part II
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER! Josephine Baker had a life so full it could not be contained by one episode alone! In this eoisode Josephine deals…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood160. Josephine Baker - Part I
Jospehine Bake lived a full life, so much so that it was impossible to fit the bisexual, burlesque icon's story into just one episode! So welcome to part one…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon
Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public Morality…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood158. Liane de Pougy - Courtesan, Princess, Nun
Burlesque's beginnings blossomed out of La Belle Époque, the interwar period between the Franco-Prussian war and WW1. An era where creativity and the arts…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood157. The Battle of Castle Itter
The Battle of Castle Itter has to be one of the weirdest battle of the Second World War, it's the SS against Wermacht, the Austrian Resistance, US troops, an…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood156. Amon Göth - The Butcher of Płaszów
Amon Leopold Göth was an SS Schutzstafeeln, the commandant of the Płaszów labour camp in Kraków, Poland and a man that was such a monster that Steven Spielberg…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood155. Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to avoid too…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood154. Irma Grese - The Hyena of Auschwitz
Irma Grese, the baby faced Beast of Belsen and the Hyena pf Auschwitz who revelled in the pain and sufferening of others, especially if she was the one who was…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood153. Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riot wasn't actually a riot, don't let the name fool you, it is an often overlooked attack on ethnic minorities in Los Angeles which became a…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood152. Kate Warne - America's First Female Detective
Kate Warne, a woman in history we should know more about. The first "lady" detective in the USA, she solved crimes, performed subtrefuge and even thwarted an…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood151 . John Brown - Part II: Heroism is Treason
In the second half of the John Brown tale, we get to hear about Brown's FAFO era, from Bleeding Kansas to the guerilla warfare at Osawatomie, the Battle at…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood150. John Brown - Part I: American Abolitionist
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood149. Mary Astor - Hollywood and Scandal
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood148. King Edward II - Bisexual Chaos Monarch
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood147. Alan Turing - The Codebreaker
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood145. Louisa May Alcott
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood144. The Marchioness Disaster
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood143. When MIT & Quaker Oats Tested Radiation on Children
Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood142. Harmen van den Bogaert
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood141. That Time the USA Banned Sliced Bread
Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewives…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood140. Pope Innocent VIII - Anything but Innocent
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood139. Alice Crimmins - Mother on Trial
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood138. Murder Mystery on the High Seas
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood137. Bass Reeves - The Real Lone Ranger
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood136. The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood135. Joan Crawford
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood134. Dr Gisella Perl - Abortionist at Auschwitz
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood133. America's Forgotten War on Women
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood132. Nancy Wake - The Spy With the 5 Million Franc Bounty
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood131. Bessie Coleman - First Black Aviatrix
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood130. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie CharlwoodFrom the Vault - Mary Jane Kelly - The Ripper's Final Victim
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie CharlwoodFrom the Vault - Catherine Eddowes - The Ripper's Fourth Victim
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie CharlwoodFrom the Vault - Elizabeth Stride - The Ripper's Third Victim
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie CharlwoodFrom the Vault - Annie Chapman - The Ripper's Second Victim
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie CharlwoodFrom the Vault - Polly Nichols - The Ripper's First Victim
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood129. Joshua N. Haldeman - Elon Musk's Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood128. The Brothers Kellogg
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood127. Nuns on the Run - Outlaws and Thieves
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood126. Nellie Cashman - The Angel of Cassier
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…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood125, The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
Elisa Lam was a 21 year old Canadian woman whose mysterious death in the infamous Cecil Hotel caused a stir for internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood124. The Tulsa Race Massacre
The Tulsa Race Massacre 1921, when white rage burned black neighbourhoods to the ground, destroying homes, businesses, communities and lives. For nearly a…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood123. Willowbrook State School
Originally conceived as a haven for children with intellectual disabilities, the Willowbrook State School was instead to become a breeding ground of neglect…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood122. Enriqueta Martí - Vampiress of Barcelona
Children are disappearing from the streets of Barcelona, the struggling, the lost, the poor, are they being taken from this earth by disease that is ravaging…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood121. Agent 355
Who exactly was Agent 355? An alleged member of Washington's infamous Culper Spy Ring, Agent 355 has captured the ideas of espionage aficionados everywhere…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood120: The Emu War
Some wars are fought over lands or animals, or the rights to hunt animals, but on this occasion the war was with animals. After World War I Australia faced a…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood119. The Kerry Babies
The body of a baby boy was discovered on a beach in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Eire. The infant had suffered a violent death, with brutal physical injuries and 27…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood118. Lady Mary Grey
Lady Jane Grey the Nine Days Queen had a short and tragic life, but she wasn't the only Grey Sister to have a tough time of it in Tudor England. This week we…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood117. Lady Katherine Grey
Like her sister, Lady Jane Grey, the other Grey sister, Katherine was in line to the English throne, this made her a valuable political piece and a thorn in…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood116. The Infamous 1904 Olympic Games
The 1904 Olympic Games were without a doubt the weirdest Olympic games in the modern era, but that's what happens when you decide to smash fancy diving…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood115. The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological experiments of all time, shame it's a fake... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Tell me where to…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood114. Frederick Rutland - Beverly Hills Spy
Rutland of Jutland was one of the most famous aviators in the First World War, decorated for his heroism who became a Japanese spy during the Golden Age of…
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood113. Flora MacDonald - The Girl Who Saved a Prince
Flora MacDonald has become the stuff of legend, a song about her exploits is the theme to the bodice ripping romance Outlander. Flora showed bravery that many…