Just in time for #WomensHistoryMonth! This 1946 #book has #essays about 15 influential #women. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/6879... #Booksky #leaders #MarieCurie #AmeliaEarhart #FlorenceNightingale #HarrietBeecherStowe #HelenKeller #EdithCavell #JennyLind
Edith Cavell was a British nurse who sheltered Allied soldiers in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. She was arrested and deleted in 1915, her death shocked the world and became powerful propaganda, against Germany.
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#EdithCavell was born 160 years ago #OnThisDay
How did the English nurse become the unlikely guardian angel of the German poet who pronounced her dead?
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“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”
🕯🩺 #EdithCavell, British nurse (executed by the German army in WWI), was #BOTD 4 December 1865. #Nursing #History
Ok here we go Edith's scores are up! What do you think? Have you got a better argument for Strategic Prowess rather than my imaginary 5? Let's hear it 🦉
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On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.
"Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe and that I am glad to die for my country."
🩺 #EdithCavell, English nurse, was executed by German firing squad #OTD 12 October 1915. #Nursing #History
New exhibition in Norwich "Edith Cavell in her own voice" #edithcavell #histnursing #ww1
Edith Cavell memorial, Convent Garden "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone"
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"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone"
Today’s Find: “Nurse Edith Cavell” 1939 film starring Anna Neagle as the British nurse executed for espionage by the Germans during WWI tinyurl.com/muhsfm7x & tinyurl.com/bdf77psj #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #edithcavell #annaneagle
It was a surprise when at Kent & East Sussex Railway we not only travelled by #steamteain but also discovered that they are custodians of the railway carriage which transported #EdithCavell body from south to London for her funeral. #EdithCavell
Funny how the entire #WesternWorld was (rightly) outraged by the murder of #EdithCavell. But the same fate befalling 14 #ArabMedics stirs but barely a whisper!
"Nurse Edith Cavell"
by Alice Marble and Sheldon Moldoff
From Wonder Woman #3, Feb-Mar 1943
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New Episode Alert!
In this historical fiction episode we meet a real life hero!
This is one you won't want to miss!
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vintage propaganda postcard featuring #EdithCavell, a British nurse, during World War I.
#death #painting #art
Born On This Day
(4th December):
Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian, and saint (Anglicanism).
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“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”
🕯🩺 #EdithCavell, British nurse (executed by the German army in WWI), was #BOTD 4 December 1865. #Nursing #History
#EdithCavell, London Hospital nurse and heroine of WWI, commemorated on @WWLRNorfolk locomotive #histnursing
