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John Snow Mapping Cholera 1859
Sometimes events happen in history, that have a profound effect upon all people, the epidemiological studies of John Snow in his pursuit of the cause of cholera was one just event
Read MoreMap of John Snow’s London 1859
An intriguing snippet to put you in touch with John Snow and his mapping study of cholera in London in 1859
Read MoreMigration of Nightingale Nurses
The migration of the Nightingale nurses, allowed the excellent standards and practises of their training to be disseminated throughout the world
Read MoreNurse Training in the C19th & C20th
Nurse training, the Florence Nightingale way. The lives of our ancestors were improved beyond measure by the work and resolve of Florence Nightingale
Read MoreA Good Nurse an improving Woman…
Powerful words from Florence Nightingale
Read MoreVictorian Hospitals
Until the C19th century, serious illness amongst our ancestors was treated at home. The establishment of Victorian hospitals began as overcrowded workhouse infirmaries could no longer cope with the volume of patients in their care
Read MoreThe Lunar Society bringing together brilliant minds
The Lunar Society bringing together brilliant minds The Lunar Society bringing together brilliant minds happened because of a full moon. Those who joined together to become the ‘Lunar Circle’ or ‘Lunar Club’ as it was formerly known in 1775. The meetings of these fellows, with such fertile minds changed an age. The original ‘Lunarmen’, gathered together for…
Read MoreStephen Hawkings, Great Physicist, Charles Babbage, Great Mathematician
Celebrate the lives of great scientists and mathematicians starting with Charles Babbage
Read MoreWorld Memory Project: US Holocaust Museum teams-up with the world
World Memory Project – teams-up with Ancestry so we can transcribe the records freely and faster, hear this video with Sol Finkelmen’s moving story just one of millions…If ever there was a compelling reason for family history research, this has to be it…
Read MoreTrinity College Cambridge Alumni Masters and Fellows of distinction
Philopshers Poets, Prime Ministers, Scientific Pioneers, Politicians and Social reformers with 32 Nobel prize winners quite an impressive list through history, did any of your family attend Trinity Cambridge or Oxford…
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