Who Did What Now

Who Did What Now

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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88. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations, Terrible Reality

88. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations, Terrible Reality

Charles Dickens is one of the most popular writers ever to exist, he championed for the poor, he highlighted inequality and child labour laws, and he's even partly responsible for the wholesome concep...

6 Joulu 20231h 8min

87. The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels

87. The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels

At the turn of the 20th Century, four days before the King and Queen are due to visit Ireland for the Great Expedition, the country is rocked by Ireland's most scandalous heist in one of its most fort...

30 Marras 202357min

86. De Valera's Prison Break

86. De Valera's Prison Break

Eamon De Valera, the long fellow, was to become the President and first Taoiseach of the Irish Republic, but before that he was locked up in an English prison while his fellow rebels fought for Irish ...

28 Marras 202342min

85. Mary Shelley - The Original Goth Girl

85. Mary Shelley - The Original Goth Girl

Mary Shelley was a force to be reckoned with, an intellectual mastermind, fuelled by passion and who lived a life rife with death and creativity. As a teenager Mary invented an entire genre, and as an...

14 Marras 20231h 3min

84. Edgar Allan Poe

84. Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was the original goth boy, emo well before that G note made everyine with 45degree fringes and spray on trousers stop in their tracks. Poe was he master of the macabre, from his tragic...

18 Loka 20231h 16min

83. Elizabeth Bathory - The Blood Countess REDUX

83. Elizabeth Bathory - The Blood Countess REDUX

Erzébet Báthori, history's most prolific female serial-killer, who exsanguinated her victims and the bathed in the blood of virgins, out of villainy? Sadism? Or a desperate attempt to regain her youth...

10 Loka 20231h 8min

82. Sawney Bean And His Cannibal Clan

82. Sawney Bean And His Cannibal Clan

In the 16th Century Sawney Bean and his bloodthirsty brood ambushed, killed and consumed weary travellers as they traversed the log, narrow roads of the Ayrshire coast for 25 years. Did this cave-dwel...

3 Loka 202346min

81. Roald Dahl - Soldier, Writer, Cheater, Spy

81. Roald Dahl - Soldier, Writer, Cheater, Spy

Roald Dahl has created worlds within pages that live in the minds and hearts of children (and some grown-ups) worlds that are chaotic, complicated, dark, jaunty and oft macabre, not so different from ...

26 Syys 20231h 3min

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