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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163. The Pendle Witches

163. 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 a young child. The first of many tales t...

7 Loka 202559min

162. Josephine Baker - Death of a Showgirl - Part III

162. 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 riches, resistance to Rainbow tribe, she w...

2 Loka 20251h 17min

161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighter - Part II

161. 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 with duals, death, international tours, anoth...

26 Syys 20251h 2min

160. Josephine Baker - Part I

160. 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, where we learn all about how Josephine we...

15 Syys 20251h

159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon

159. 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 Committee, she had a scandalous life on an...

9 Syys 20251h

158. Liane de Pougy - Courtesan, Princess, Nun

158. 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 boomed and the Burlesque show was born and it...

1 Syys 20251h 12min

157. The Battle of Castle Itter

157. 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 SS officer, some politicians, a famous ten...

25 Elo 202550min

156. Amon Göth - The Butcher of Płaszów

156. 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 had to tone down his cruelty in Schindle...

19 Elo 202546min

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