147. 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 neurodivergent and definitely homosexual. ...
17 Kesä 20251h 17min
146. 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 country, had five dogs, five wives and a gre...
9 Kesä 20251h 7min
145. 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 writer of the classic novel, Little Women, b...
3 Kesä 202547min
144. 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 later, over a third of these people would ...
26 Touko 20251h 20min
143. 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 disabilities skills that they would be able to have...
20 Touko 20251h 12min
142. 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 leads to what the Dutch Republic would call...
12 Touko 20251h 5min
141. 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 everywhere! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on T...
29 Huhti 202549min
140. 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, family favours, and political chaos, it's lik...
21 Huhti 202534min
