Monthly Archives: February 2026
HISTORIC REUNION: CLARA BROWN’S FAMILY SEARCH
Though it took many years, Clara Brown did eventually find one of the children taken from her when she was a slave.
HISTORIC STAND: ABOLITIONIST BENJAMIN LAY
Physically, the 18th-century abolitionist Benjamin Lay was a hunchbacked dwarf, but in this he was a giant. https://kids.kiddle.co/Benjamin_Lay https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quaker-comet-greatest-abolitionist-never-heard-180964401/
HISTORY TIDBIT: END TO ID CARDS IN THE UK
The British government abolished identity cards in the UK to, as it was put, “set the people free”. The cards above belonged to my mother and oldest brother (yes, even small children had them) and she had to carry them everywhere she went. She also had an identity card for the factory she worked in […]
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2026
It’s now the Year of the Horse, this time round, the Year of the Fire Horse, a designation that only comes up every sixty years. Fire Horse years are supposed to herald twelve months of ‘fiery’ or dramatic events, and horse years in general ones that give rise to the births of people who possess […]
HISTORIC SKIERS: AMERICA’S 10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION
American skiers in Milan-Corvino fighting for Olympic medals probably haven’t been trained to fight on skis – but these guys were.
Time Travelling With Kids 