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18 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"The front balcony".

Nursing sisters and patients outside a ward tent, No. 2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Tréport, France.
1917.
Library and Archives Canada
Some details;
Yes, the dog is smoking a pipe.
@bmmore58 spotted this one, that appears to be a cat!
So young.
This was tent Y, does that mean there were another (at least) 24 tents?

(Y suggests there were 24 tents before this one but doesn't mean there has to be one after it ;) )

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19 Sep
"For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public."
Puck magazine, 1908.

The nightmare of some Edwardian chaps; women having the same fun they were having!
But if you allow women to smoke... whatever next?!

Let's look at a few details, thread;
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Ah no, pesky kids, coming to bother mum while she's having a few drinks and smokes.
Go ask your dad!

The artist is showing us the hellish vision of women doing... well what a lot of chaps were doing!
What a self report ;)
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17 Sep
That photo, taken by Frank M. Hohenberger, shows a lovely old lady somewhere in Brown County USA, before the 40s.
This is a mugshot of Cianciulli in the 40s, who BTW also turned the bodies into "crunchy tea cakes" she then ate & shared with others...

They are not the same person
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And here the lady making soap in (probably) the 1920s/1930s.
Yes, according to this website she is a soap maker;
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Everybody who thought she was Cianciulli say sorry to her.
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16 Sep
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This episode is about the history of cities, how people adapted to living in them and what we can learn from our ancestors.

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28 Aug
The news lately saddens and angers me.
Child refugees are on my mind today, hence this thread.

In 1945 Dutch child refugees arrived in the UK after living through the infamous Hungerwinter.

All pics; © IWM

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I'm getting a lot of questions about these photos, so here's what I've found;
The photos show Евгений Степанович Кобытев (Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev) and yes, it's the same man in both photos and yes, before and after his experiences during WW2.
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Ode to the humble washhandje (little wash hand, aka washing mitt).

This is the setup in my bedroom, it shows an early 20th century washing set, lampetkan as we cloggies call it and it's how most people washed every day for centuries.
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