The Irish Potato Famine
Join Kelli as she explores the history of the Irish Potato Famine. We know that a fungal disease, blight, swept through Ireland in from 1845 to 1852, wiping out most of the potatoes. But where did blight come from? Did it only affect the Irish? If blight was elsewhere, why were they the ones so badly affected? Was it only potatoes affected? And if so, why were there not alternative food sources? How bad did it really get during the peak years of the famine? And what do the British have to do ...
25 Jun 202344min
The Radium Girls
Join Kelli as she gives the history of the Radium Girls - young women who worked in factories painting watches and dials with paint containing RADIUM. The girls were encouraged to use their lips to keep the brushes pointy, and as a result, they were consuming alpha radiation particles from the radioactive radium. The result? Disintegrating bones, rotting necrotic tissue, and painful death. Follow the APHOUT podcast for more stories! It also helps me grow the show! Sources referenced: The Ra...
11 Jun 202332min
The Jack the Ripper Murders
Join Kelli as she explores the history of late 19th century's East End of London, where Jack the Ripper made his infamous, and gruesome, killings of five women before disappearing into the darkness in the fall of 1888. Though he was never found, his murders give us a chance to explore the lives of women, the poor, and the working classes in the gritty, industrial life of England's biggest city. This episode is the second of a two-episode look into two late 19th-century murderers - Holmes an...
28 Mai 202348min
The HH Holmes Murder Castle
Join Kelli as she explores the real history behind HH Holmes - born Herman Webster Mudgett - and how he became known as America's first serial killer. Was he the man we know him as today? Or is his story of a murder house and the deaths of tourists in Chicago just a legend? This episode is part of a two-episode look into two late 19th century murdered - Holmes and Jack the Ripper - and how they became integral parts of our histories as infamous killers. Sources referenced: H. H. Holmes: Th...
14 Mai 202349min
The Auckland Island Shipwrecks
Join Kelli as she tells the story of two shipwrecks that took place on Auckland Island in 1864, at the same time, though neither knew the other was there. One wreck tells the tale of a group that banded together in the face of adversity and used their creativity and strength to survive. The other wreck is more like an adult version of Lord of the Flies; the situation quickly devolved into chaos, with most survivors dying of starvation. Let's find out how and why two shipwrecks, on opposite si...
30 Apr 202343min
The Romans in Gaul
In a special joint podcast, Kelli from APHOUT joins Anna and Paul from the Engineering History Podcast to talk about the history and engineering behind the Battle of Alesia, a decisive battle between Julius Caesar and his Roman forces against Vercingetorix and the Gauls in 52 BCE. Together we explore the intersection of history and engineering in Ancient Rome! Follow The Engineering History Podcast wherever you listen, or click on the link below: The Engineering History Podcast Intro and Ou...
16 Apr 20231h 15min
The Catacombs of Paris
Join Kelli as she explains how and why the French built their famous Catacombs, an Ossuary filled with the bones of possibly 6 million, anonymous people. Skulls and femur bones line the walls of this grotesquely beautiful, and immensely famous, Parisian attraction. But where did the bodies come from? And why were they put into the tunnels under Paris? Find out in the latest episode of A Popular History of Unpopular Things! Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast?...
2 Apr 202337min
The Jonestown Massacre
Join Kelli as she explores the worst mass-murder suicide in history. Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple cult, brought more than 900 of his followers to a remote agricultural compound in the Guyanese jungle. As he started to lose control of his followers, and with the government investigating allegations of abuse, he directed (and in some cases forced) them to drink a cyanide-laced punch. In one day, 918 people were killed. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own pod...
19 Mar 20231h 2min
