Monthly Archives: September 2019
HISTORIC RECOGNITION: NATIONAL BRITISH HOME CHILD DAY
Today is National British Home Child Day and 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the first group of Home Children coming to Canada. https://tinyurl.com/24p67tby
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: CLIMATE CHANGE STRIKES
The first major climate change strike to heighten awareness of climate change and protest the lack of action in this regard was held September 20th, 2019. Another takes place today, following on the heels of the soon-to-become historic United Nation’s emergency summit meeting at which teen-age activist, Greta Thunberg, spoke so passionately. Today, let’s focus […]
HISTORIC MONEY: COMMONWEALTH COINS
Still on the subject of coins, there is a noticeable difference between English coins minted before the English Civil Wars & those minted after, during of the Commonwealth period. The difference being that Commonwealth currency didn’t have the image of a king’s head on it. (Although devotees of Oliver Cromwell – who was king in […]
TRIVIA TRAIL: WORLD’S FIRST COIN COLLECTOR
Question: Who is thought to have been the world’s first numismatist (coin collector?) Answer: Cæsar Augustus, first emperor of Rome (27 BC to 14 AD). And Gussie didn’t just collect them in the form of tax money. (Though he did that, too.) No, he liked coins for their own sake and put aside any he […]
HISTORIC DISCOVERY: COINS FROM REIGN OF HARALD II
Why it pays (yes, literally pays) to get a metal detector and dig around in back yards. Couple find £5,000,000 in one of biggest ever treasure hoards
HISTORY HELP: KID-ORIENTED HISTORY WEBSITES
Kid-friendly history information for all those history assignments that are now probably starting to roll in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/index.shtml https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/history/ http://www.historyforkids.net/ https://www.ducksters.com/history/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2C2gPqsmAc And, for kids who like to put forth their own ideas on history: https://historicaldebatesociety.home.blog/ Then, last, but not least, kids can visit this site to find clipart for school projects http://worldhistory.phillipmartin.info/index.htm (It’s the one […]
HOLOCAUST HERO: THE MAHARAJA OF NAWANAGAR
Did you know that a Maharaja in India saved the lives of six hundred and forty Polish women and children in WW II? https://www.thebetterindia.com/52118/maharaja-digvijaysinhji-ranjitsinhji-jadeja-nawanagar-ww2-little-poland-in-india/
TRIVIA TRAIL: ERASERS
Question: How long have people been using rubbers /erasers (depending on where you live) to remove errors from written work? Answer: Since 1770, when an English engineer by the name of Edward Nairne discovered a piece of rubber worked better than the pieces of bread he’d hitherto been using. http://www.historyofpencils.com/writing-instruments-history/history-of-eraser/
HISTORIC FREEBIE: SCHOOL MILK
My relationship with milk ended when I tossed my bottle at the age of eleven months because – I was told – I didn’t like the new nipple. Despite parental efforts to soften same, I would have nothing more to do with my bottle or its contents. My mother did later manage to get milk […]
Time Travelling With Kids 