There was more to Beatrix Potter than bunny books. She was also a serious fan of fungi and later in life, a sheep farmer.

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler
Bringing History to Life
There was more to Beatrix Potter than bunny books. She was also a serious fan of fungi and later in life, a sheep farmer.
Mary Anning was only 12 years old when she and her brother discovered the fossilized skeleton of a 17-foot-long prehistoric ichthyosaurus. Mary went on to become one of the greatest fossil collectors of the 19th century.
Could reading Jane Austen calm a troubled soul? Maybe. After World War I, her books were prescribed for solders suffering from PTSD…
Florence Nightingale, the lamp-carrying nurse who cared for wounded soldiers, also wrote and used infographics to get her point across.
This is a list of ten women that I’ve written about over the years. Some are famous and others less so, but they are all extraordinary in their own way…
Boudica was a British Queen who took on the Roman army in 60 AD. – and she almost won…
Coco Chanel was queen of fashion until Elsa Schiaparelli rolled into town…
Saint Martha washed up in Provence and wandered into a village with a dragon problem. The Tarasque was terrorizing the town, but Martha wasn’t afraid. ..
During the French Revolution, Marie Tussaud was forced to make wax casts of severed heads. Later she took them to England and set up her Wax Museum…
Marie Antoinette is usually characterized as aloof and uncaring. However, she was very motherly and adopted several children…
At the beginning of the French Revolution, when the Parisians had nothing to eat, several thousand women took things into their own hands…
In early 1900s Paris, Madame Bob was a thoroughly modern woman: She had many professions, but is best remembered for helping young lovers elope…
In fourteenth-century Florence, opulent dress was outlawed. But Florentine ladies continually changed their fashions to keep them just barely legal…
Queen Victoria spent her winters on the French Riviera. While there, she could let her hair down and relax, often touring around in a little donkey cart.
A 16th century Niçoise laundress chased away the Turkish army and saved the city of Nice, France…