The Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo

Join Kelli as she goes over the Congo Free State, owned not by Belgium, but by its King - Leopold II. During the 19th century in Africa, seven European countries - Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, met to divide up Africa; they had already encroached on about 10% of it, mostly the coasts, but now they wanted more. In this episode we discuss why, and what happened to the Congolese men, women, and children who were suddenly under the control of King Leopold. Intro ...

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The Irish Potato Famine

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 bli...

25 Juni 202344min

The Radium Girls

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 ke...

11 Juni 202332min

The Jack the Ripper Murders

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...

28 Maj 202347min

The HH Holmes Murder Castle

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 st...

14 Maj 202348min

The Auckland Island Shipwrecks

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 band...

30 Apr 202342min

The Romans in Gaul

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 ...

16 Apr 20231h 14min

The Catacombs of Paris

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 ...

2 Apr 202336min

The Jonestown Massacre

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 Guyan...

19 Mars 20231h 1min

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