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!
Bittisode 010: Theodore Durrant - The Demon of ...
Who would have suspected that a God-fearing man who worked at a Sunday School could commit such a terrible crime?
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51 The Case of The Cult of Clitoris
It's all fun and games until a women are accused of being lesbian spies sent by Germany to undermine the British war effort via UK politicians wives P
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Bittisode: 009 The Death of Diana, Princess of ...
Was Princess Diana's premature death a tragic accident or part of a larger conspiracy..?
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50 - Winston Churchill - The Paradoxical Prime ...
Winston Churchill, the absolute gobbermouch
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Bittisode 008: Anthrax Island
When Churchill slaughtered sheep and made a Scottish Island uninhabitable for 50 years....
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49 - Lady Jane Grey - The Nine Days Queen
Lady Jane Grey was the shortest reigning queen on the English throne, but how did she end up with the crown, and how did she lose it?
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48 - The 1788 Doctor's Riots
The origins of modern medicine were murky at best and maleficent at worst. Doctors needed to study the human body in order to understand the human body, unfortunately the one thing they required was the one thing they couldn't have! Physicians could...
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47 - The Bennington Triangle Mystery...
New England's Bennington Triangle is home to several unexplained, unsolved and mysterious disappearances over the years, with no clear connection between any of the victims. In fact the only common denominator was their locale, and even that wasn't...
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46 - Lizzie Borden - Axe Murderer (Part 02)
Lizzie Borden has gone down in history as one of America's most notorious killers, but was the New England heiress truly an axe-murderer, or was she a convenient patsy in the Gilded Age crime...? Join me for part two of the tale of Lizzie Borden and...
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45 - Lizzie Borden - Axe Murderer (Part 01)
Lizzie Borden took an axe... This is the first of two episodes discussing Lizzie Borden, the notorious Massachusetts' Murderess! Who exactly was Lizzie and what led the unassuming spinster to take a hatchet to her father and stepmother, if it was...
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44 - Eleanor of Aquitaine - Queen & Rebel
Eleanor of Aquitaine led one hell of a remarkable life, a teenage heiress, queen of two countries, went on Crusades, supported a rebellion against her husband and got imprisoned for it... and that's not even the half of it!Hosted by Katie Charlwood...
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43 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
The mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke is one of, if not the oldest "unsolved" mysteries in North America, when 115 men, women and children disappeared without a trace from their colony. Hosted by Katie CharlwoodNew episodes every Tuesday ...
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42 - Elizabeth Báthory - The Blood Countess
The life of the infamous Elizabeth Báthory has been a cautionary tale of terror throughout the ages, known as a vampiric villainess who viciously murdered over young women and girls and bathing in their blood in order to retain her youth and beauty....
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41 - Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon, more commonly known as "Typhoid Mary" was an Irish-born cook to the New York elite, and the first known asymptomatic carrier (or super spreader) of a contagious disease, like typhoid fever. But was Mary an innocent woman, unwittingly...
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Bittisode 007: Titanic Toilets
The Titanic is quite probably the most famous ships in all of maritime (and all of probably) history! There are so many fascinating factors to discuss about the tragic sinking of this White Star Line Goliath, however, in this bittisode, sit back and...
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40 - Dr. Cream - The Lambeth Poisoner
Doctor Thomas Neill Cream was a Scottish-Canadian chloroform fan, back alley abortionist and serial killer with a hatred for women that was so intense that he just couldn't stop feeding them poison. This week, join Katie as she delves into this...
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39 - Anna Genovese - The Bisexual Mob Queen
It's LGBTQ+ history month in the UK and Ireland, so what better time to talk about than Anna Genovese, the bisexual mob queen who history tried to forget. Not only did she create a safe haven for LGBT folks, she did what no other mob wife did before,...
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38 - Lucrezia Borgia - Victim or Vixen?
Lucrezia Borgia, the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, also known as Pope Alexander VI, is one of the most infamous women in history. Immortalised in art & literature as an incestuous, poisoning murderess, the true story of a woman caught in...