THEME History of Organisations
William Wilberforce and the Bettering Society
William Wilberforce was the father of the Reform Movement who encouraged a ‘Better Society’, where decent morals and values created a world of positive outcomes for the poor, where science could be used to make lives better
Read MoreScott the Terra Nova Exhibition
Visit the Scott Polar Institute to see the most comprehensive exhibition of Scott’s ill fated Terra Nova expedition
Read MoreCap Badge 19th Hussars 1898 – 1902
Cap badge of the 19th Hussars who fought in the Anglo Boer War, part of an intriguing and wonderful collection of military cap badges
Read MoreFamily Home of Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 at Glover House in 1864
Thomas Blake Glover an intriguing influence on the Meiji Restoration. mining, ship-building and Mistubishi with his family home in Aberdeen.
Read MoreWomen and Suffrage
Women’s suffrage affected generation after generation of women. It took thirty years from the formation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society to the Representation of the People Act in 1928 for all women to have an equal right to vote in the UK
Read MoreAgas Map of London, Online and Interactive
Historical maps are beautiful works of art and to see The Agas map of London on line and interactive, thanks to the work of the University of Victoria Canada with the permission of the London Metropolitan archive, is a real bonus to historians and an excellent piece of work.
Read MoreThe Remarkable Influence of Sir Joseph Banks
The remarkable influence of Joseph Banks, explorer, botanist and ‘enlightened’ man, stretched itself over a multitude of disciplines and ages. The connections he made heralded a new wave of thinking about science which still impact today…
Read MoreFoundling Hospital a home for children…
The Foundling Hospital for children, in many ways, epitomises the change in thinking that came out of the period of Enlightenment. People such as John Locke, stirred the conscience of a society and resulted in a more liberal thinking where deeds and actions spoke loudest.
Read MoreChildren Lost and Found Notices
Lost children of the C19th. How heartbreaking it must have been to lose a child in the seething populace of London but how did a poor family go about finding their lost child. A little piece of ephemera had us on the trail….
Read MoreVictorian Women and the Professions. The Female Doctor
The first female doctors of the C19th. Why were women excluded from the professions in the first half of the C19th and when did it change?
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