153. Zoot Suit Riots

Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to avoid too many questions. A place of brutality, where women were used as forced labour for Siemens and Heinkel, to build rockets and luftwaffe machinery. To provide products for businesses owned by prominent SS, and to make uniforms for the soldiers. But it wasn't all work, women were used for horrific "scientific" experiments, tortured and more...Content Warning: Murder, Abuse, SA, Infanticide and more. Proceed with caution.Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Irma Grese, the baby faced Beast of Belsen and the Hyena pf Auschwitz who revelled in the pain and sufferening of others, especially if she was the one who was inflicting it. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarJust in CaseBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Zoot Suit Riot wasn't actually a riot, don't let the name fool you, it is an often overlooked attack on ethnic minorities in Los Angeles which became a pivotal moment in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. What happened in Downtown LA in June 1943?Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second half of the John Brown tale, we get to hear about Brown's FAFO era, from Bleeding Kansas to the guerilla warfare at Osawatomie, the Battle at Black Creek and of course the rai on Harper's Ferry, and the events that led him to be executed for treason. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! (News Coming Soon)Donate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A film noir femme fatale, actress Mary Astor found herself embroiled in a custody battle and "crime of the century!" A scandal so inticing that it knocked the news of fascists off of the front page of the newspapers. To start off our US History month, the American starlet and the purple diary scandal! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

King Edward II had everything he needed in life, a great education, a throne to sit upon, huge tracts of land and a beautiful face... unfortunately his greatest achievement as King was having a pirate beoyfriendHosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarJust in CaseBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her as the writer of the classic novel, Little Women, but Alcott had an interesting life that is only hinted at in her novels Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] by Katie CharlwoodFill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual disabilities skills that they would be able to have a better life. A mission that changed over time, instead of providing skills ans support, the children were treated as lab rats, with some even tested with radiation.Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip JarJust in CaseBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] by Katie CharlwoodFill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harmen van den Bogaert was one of the earliest colonisers settlers in 17th Century North America, an ambassador to the Mohawks, he has a bright future which leads to what the Dutch Republic would call a "bad fate."Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarJust in CaseBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Business Enquiries: [email protected] out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewives everywhere! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarJust in CaseBeacons (at the bottom of the page)Follow me on…InstagramTikTokFacebookBlueskyFan Mail:Katie CharlwoodC/O The Postal StoreUnit 11AForte Retail ParkLetterkennyCo. DonegalIrelandF92 DY22Fill out the survey! http://bit.ly/whodidwhatnow-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.