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Ephemera: Mary Ann Murray – a Housemaid from Dunkeld @ Hampton Hall, Malpas

Jun 26, 2023 · 16 min read · 1917 1921 1899 AIF Autograph Book Malpas Dunkeld Perth Scotland Cheshire Hampton Hall Wilding Jones Landed Gentry Tenanted farms Dairy farms Convalescent home Wilding Jones Red Cross Mary Ann Murray Murray Duff Seatons Upper Hatton Birkenburn Royal Highlanders Black Watch 118th Brigade 39th Division The Buffs East Kent Regiment 37th Machine Gun Corp 37th Brigade 12th Division Dunkeld Royal Hiher Grade School Port Askaig Isle of Islay PoW Labour Land Army Trench Culture Trench Journal Command Gazette Maple Leaf RStudio Mapbox Mapdeck Leaflet ·
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The Book For the second entry in this series, I have chosen to add an autograph book which, in some regards, is a very typical example — containing poems, memes, toasts, and quite a few pictures of Union Jack flags. On closer inspection, however, it becomes a mystery starting with a distinct lack of personification. …

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AYIT Part 3: Maternal Mortality in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian period

Mar 14, 2022 · 14 min read · 1800s 1889 1890 Edward Wadswrth William Farr Alexander Gordon Oliver Wendell-Holmes Ignaz Semmelweis Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Janet Campbell Leonard Findlay Church of England Kings College Lying-in Maternal Mortality Puerperal Fever haemorrhage Toxaemia Rickets Rotunda Ireland Dublin Herford Glasgow Scotland Pontypridd Wales Rhonda Valley Victorian Era Edwardian Era Hygeine Medical Care Nutrition Maternal Mortality Rate ·
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Figure 1. Victorian Cabinet Memoriam Card, Authors Collection Introduction In part 2, we looked at the state of midwifery in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, a practice that was being hamstrung by both the tripartite of the medical profession and by contemporary attitudes towards women. In this article we …

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Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

Jan 28, 2022 · 14 min read · CAB 37/134/22 1914 rush-to-the-colours FWW recruitment Cardiff Scotland August 1914 BEF Statistics of the Military Effort Peter Simkins Regular Army Territorial Army Derek R Young Welsh Regiment Patrick Watt Ian Beckett Kitchener Keith Simpson Adrian Gregory Catriona Pennell ·
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I am currently teaching myself R and R Studio and, as someone who has spent many an hour typing up tables from old documents, I am planning to put my datasets into a GitHub repository along with the code for anyone who might find them useful. I am not quite at that stage yet but wanted to post this example as it came …

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