Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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 o...

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 whe...

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 governme...

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)  ...

Did you hear? Elon Musk is now the world's first "Trillionaire." Enjoy this From the Vault Anyway, some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family prefer to put them on display. Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman was an apartheid-loving chiropractor, who was super into conspiracy theories...

Continuing Pride Month with one of my favourite things, telling y'all all about bad popes! We've got nepotism, murder, homosexial espionage AND a conpiracy involving a pet elephant! Pull up a chair and hear abotut Pope Leo X 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...

Kicking off Pride Month with this Beauty from the Vault, the 18th Century Trans Spy, the Chevalière d'Éon 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 Letterken...

Introducing your new True Crime fix, Day and Nightshade, podcast that asks you What's Your Poison? And means it...   Join Katie Charlwood and Jay McLoughlin in Victorian England, as they share the twisted tale of William Palmer, the "Prince of Poisoners" who gained the title with all of the subtlely as a dyspraxic jester. But this man's actions were n laughing matter, find out now on Day and...

Introducing Day and Nightshade, the podcast that asks you "what's your poison?" and means it. For your new favourite True Crime fix (and poison fascination) listen now on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and... other places probably Y'know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Errol Flynn was a Hollywood heartthrob in the Golden Era, a swashbuckler who the ladies would swoon at the sight of, but beneath that dashing exterior was a man filled with demons and more narcotics you could shake a stick at. Accused of affairs, assaults and sympathising the enemy there is more to the man than swordplay and tights. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Ja...

Marlene Dietrich was a Hollywood star who wanted to be alone, but before that she was a sex symbol who combatted gender norms and wanted to poison the leader of the Third Reich with a poison hair pin, which, could have worked, we maybe should have let her try...   Hosted by Katie Charlwood   Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page)   Follow me on&...

Mary Pickford was America's Sweetheart, a silent film actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the first to be offered a million dollar contract and one of th ecreaors of the Little Three... Hosted by Katie Charlwood 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...

Best known as the highest ranking crewmember to survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic, there is more to this man than just one ship, including so many near - death experiences, two world wars and a chicken coop...or two   Hosted by Katie Charlwood   Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page)   Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky...

The UNSINKABLE Margaret "Molly" Brown was a passenger on the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship, the White Star Line's RMS Titanic which sank on the North Atlantic ocean. But shes far more interesting than you know...   Hosted by Katie Charlwood   Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page)   Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Faceb...

On the 14th April 1912 the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship, the White Star Line's RMS Titanic sank on the North Atlantic ocean, on board was Miss Unsinkable, the stewardess Violet Jessop, but the Titanic sinking is not the only part of her story   Hosted by Katie Charlwood   Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page)   Follow me on...

From humble beginnings to international stardom, Miss Piggy made sure that she would get the life that she deserved! She is a beacon (not bacon) of style, charm and a certain je ne sais quoi, if you want to know about this icon then loom no further!   Hosted by Katie Charlwood   Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page)   Follow me on… Insta...

Nellie Bly was a whirlwind in a new form of journalism - Stunt Girl Journalism! At 23 years old she spent 10 days in the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, exposing the mistreatment of the marginilised in these institutions and sparking reform. Her investigative journalism would take her around the world and even to the Eastern Front during the Great War, but tht's only part of her stor...

in 1975 two boys are playing out by the ruins of the old Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway, ireland. They find a hole filled with very small bones. They tell everyone what tehy find and it is assumed that this is a famine grave. It's sealed up and ignored for 40 years until someone starts questioning what happened to the 796 children that died in The Home. Get ready for a very Irish scandal. Ho...

The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were working and residing in them. Their history should not be forgotten. orld Pageant is a historic event that you've probably never heard of. On November 20th 1970, worlds collided with rigging accusations, bombs, thinly-veiled racism and the second wave of...

Countess Constance Markievicz was an aristocrat, suffragist, artist and rebel leader. She was an integral part of te Easter Rising and in Ireland gaining indepence from the Britsh Empire.   H orld Pageant is a historic event that you've probably never heard of. On November 20th 1970, worlds collided with rigging accusations, bombs, thinly-veiled racism and the second wave of feminism, all top...

Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who should have been enjoying her retirement and provincial life had it all come crashing down when she was brought into a police station in November 2020, where she was faced with the fact that she was abused by strangers for a decade, all of which was facilitated by her husband of half a century, Dominique Pelicot. She would be the centre of France's biggest rape trial, a...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember, Hosted by Katie Charlwood 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 Busine...

Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and Black scientists. She was a mathematician, a human computer and an American hero. She's got the medals to prove it! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Fa...

It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the beacon of ballroom. Joy is an act of resistance, so listen up to the story of the first Queen of Drag! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky...

Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to freedom and then fights the very nation that kept him in chains, well that's something worth talking about, welcome to the life of Robert Smalls. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at :  Patreon   Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Fo...