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Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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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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205. Unit 731 - Japan's Covert Human Experimentation Program
Yesterday01:05:34Summary ready
Unit 731 is one of WWII's lesser known horrors. Imperial Japan's covert biological warfare research and development unit that engaged in brutal and inhumane experimentation on victims known as "logs." These prisoners were infected with pathogens, deadly diseases from dysentery to the plague, studied and vivisected, all for the good of the Empire, and spearheaded by the sinister microbiologist Shiro Ishii. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  I'm On tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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204. The Bitch of Buchenwald - Ilse Koch
1w ago01:04:52Summary ready
Ilse Koch is one of the most notorious women of the Third Reich, a women whose crimes were so heinous, she would be known worldwide as the Bitch of Buchenwald, stories of her deeds printed in newspapers across the world. But did this woman really parade around the slave labour camp in nothing but lingerie, was she riding around the camp on her horse selecting prisoners for punishment and worst of all, did she take the skin of tattooed prisoners and had them turned into lampshades? Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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203. Coco Chanel - The Fascist Fashionista - From the Vault
2w ago00:56:41Summary ready
Coco Chanel is one of the most iconic names in fashion, popularised the tan, invented the little black dress LBD, etc, unfortunately she was also a Nazi collaborator.  Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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202. Aaron Burr - Sir!
3w ago00:53:04Summary ready
Aaron Burr is a man you may know as the guy who lost a popularity contest to Thomas Jefferson and then shot a guy who rap-sings. But the story of Aaron Burr, Sir, is much more interesting that Lin Manuel Miranda put on the stage. So curl up with your cocoa and lets hear all about Aaron Burr! Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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201. The Protest Psychosis
4w ago01:11:24Summary ready
During the Civil Rights Era, a new diagnosis emerged, a very specific form of schizophrenia that disproportinally targed Black Men...   Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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200. Belle Gunness - Butcher of Men
Jul 1201:26:11Summary ready
200th Episode!!! We're on episode 200 and to celebrate here is a bonus episode about a murderess, Lady Bluebeard, Butcher of Men, Hell's Bell, the one, the only, Belle Gunness, a woman who may be America's most prolific serial killer. Just when you thought the story couldnt get worse, it did. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Pre-order Becoming Venus  Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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199. Inherited Wounds : Indigenous Boarding School System
Jul 601:01:40Summary ready
The United States of America is 250 years old..ish, but in becoming the USA, entire communities, nations and cultures were crushed beneath teh wheel of "progress." Indigenous people in North America were removed from their land, had their practices, knowledge and culture stripped from them. One of the major cogs in the assimilation machine was the Native American boarding school system. A system of abuse that caused trauma that affected generations, inherited wounds. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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198. The Life and Death Of Marsha P Johnson
Jun 2901:13:37Summary ready
Marsha P Johnson is a queer icon, the Saint of Christopher Street, an important member of teh LGBTQ+ community, who advocated for equal rights, fought for the disenfranchised and preotected queer youth. A pillar of the community, she struggled in a world that did not accept her. Her life was one thing, but her death, was a mystery, an unsolved mystery... Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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197. The AIDS Crisis
Jun 2301:29:55Summary ready
In the early 1980s, doctors in the US started noticing clusters of unusual illnesses like cancers and pmeumonia in healthy young men, the only thing that connected them, was that they were sexually active with other men. An epidemic emerged, a disease with no name, as a mysterious, highly fatal illness. It sparked widespread panic and devastating personal loss. A crisis heavily defined by government inaction and societal stigma, thousands of lives lost to HIV/AIDS. Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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196. The Lavender Scare
Jun 1500:59:47Summary ready
In the era of McCarthyism, thousands of people were forced out of the federal government for being gay. Victims purged from positions, because being a homosexual was to be a threat to to national security...allegedlys Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day & Nightshade   Donate at:  Patreon  Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page)   Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky   Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O The Postal Store Unit 11A Forte Retail Park Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland F92 DY22   Business Enquiries: katie@whodidwhatnowpod.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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