Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was not a children’s author. Not an author at all. He was a mathematician, and was more at home with numbers than words. Dodgson was a bachelor living in the college town of Oxford, England. In 1856, Christ Church, where he was a member, had a new dean appointed. Henry Liddell, a […]
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Mary Seacole
Born Mary Jane Grant in 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica, Mary Seacole became one of the most important nurses in the Crimean War. She was the daughter of a free black Jamaican woman who was skilled in traditional medicine and a Scottish soldier. Mary learned her mother’s traditional remedies and gained a reputation as a ‘skilful […]
The Great Storm of 1854
In 1853, Britain was embroiled with its allies in an invasion of the Crimean peninsula in order to destroy the naval base at Sevastopol. It was four on one fight of Britain, France, the Otttoman Empire and Sardinia against Russia, which was making territory incursions into Modavia and Wallachia in the Balkans. This war turned […]
Princess Louise- The Rebel Princess
Born the sixth child and fourth daughter to the famously moral Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert, Louisa Caroline Alberta had a lot to live up to. She consistently bucked the traditions of the day and the feisty princess was popular with the public. Her mother not so much. Victoria wrote to her older […]
Dr. John Snow- The father of modern epidemiology
Clean water is essential for life. Without it, we die quickly of horrible diseases. As modern life progressed, our cities got dirtier and dirtier. Cities realized quickly they needed to do something to get the streets cleaner. In 1858, the city of Chicago even had all of its buildings lifted four feet to make room […]