Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast, that's not your history class, with me your katie charlwood history harlot and reader of books

uh of course before we start today quick life update because apparently my brain cannot simply

begin an episode without talking about myself oh no listen at least i'm aware of himself

now i am i am so excited about going stateside.

Like, it's so close now.

And I'm going to bring in some goodies with me.

I've got stuff to bring my friends.

And by goodies, I do mean hamming chocolates and other gastronomical treats from Europe.

Right.

Sometimes, actually, I know people are getting like, kind of saying like, don't come over, don't do this, don't do that, but like, I have friends I haven't seen in a year.

And I just think it's really good to stay connected with people and I want to show them that just because everything is on fire around them that I'm not running away.

Anyway, you know, I get asked a lot like why I bother, like writing, recording, editing and publishing history podcast in today's day and age.

Apparently, the textbooks decided that the best way to tell history was to focus exclusively on men named John, William or Henry doing a wee bit of colonialism.

Speaking of colonialism, I totally embarrassed myself this week, I was talking about the Ranny from John C, and I completely buggered up the name.

I did five takes just to be sure and somehow

managed to pose the worst one. Right? See what eventually when I do get round to do the British

Empire and the Indian subcontinent series because yeah that I got to break it up into sections

because the empire did so many things like the Sun never set on the British Empire.

Like, I'm going to have to take it by, like, region.

Like, I don't have another option for this, because it's just huge, massive.

Like a peach.

Anyway, so, like, they were everywhere.

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