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Monday 27 August 2007

The Diary of Martha Ballard

Diary of Martha Ballard:

Martha Moore Ballard was fifty years old when she began her diary on January 1 of 1785. Every day, for twenty-seven years, she recorded the daily events in her diary, beginning with the weather. Initially the entries were short and choppy, but gradually they became fuller and more regular. What began, most probably, as a record of her midwifery and healing work, grew into a remarkably steady account of both the ordinary and the extraordinary events in her life.

Martha Ballard’s massive but cryptic diary was handed down through her daughter Dolly’s family as a pile of hand-made diary booklets. Remarkably, none were lost. When a great great-granddaughter of Martha’s, Mary Hobart, graduated from medical school in New York in 1884, Dolly’s daughters gave her the diary. Mary Hobart had the scrambled leaves of the diary put in order and bound in homemade linen covers. And at the end of her career, in 1930, she donated the diary to the Maine State Library, where historian Laurel Ulrich found it fifty years later.

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Saturday 25 August 2007

Medieval and Renaissance Weddings

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Thursday 16 August 2007

Family Feuds

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Saturday 11 August 2007

Images That Changed The World

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Sunday 5 August 2007

World History of Male Love

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Wednesday 1 August 2007

American Roots Cultures

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Tuesday 31 July 2007

Medieval Conception of Time.

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Sunday 24 June 2007

Historical Map of Europe

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Friday 22 June 2007

Digital Model of Ancient Rome

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Tuesday 19 June 2007

A History of Canada’s Nurses During World War I

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Sunday 17 June 2007

European Mediaeval Swords

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Tuesday 12 June 2007

An Historical Serial Killer

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Tuesday 5 June 2007

The History of Poisoning

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Saturday 19 May 2007

First Person Accounts of Historical Events

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Saturday 5 May 2007

Good Resource for Historical Clothing Design

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Friday 4 May 2007

The People History

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Saturday 28 April 2007

Historic Cities

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Sunday 21 January 2007

Ancient Cultures From Southwestern America

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Saturday 13 January 2007

Life in Elizabethan England

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Wednesday 20 December 2006

Learning About Christmas In The Middle Ages

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Saturday 16 December 2006

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Wednesday 29 November 2006

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Saturday 11 November 2006

Lest We Forget

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Sunday 5 November 2006

Learning About the Manners of the Victorians

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Sunday 15 October 2006

Women’s Fashion in 16th Century Germany

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Tuesday 10 October 2006

All About Baroque Music

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Sunday 8 October 2006

Photographs of the Russian Empire

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Monday 25 September 2006

Wedding Dresses Through The Ages

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Saturday 9 September 2006

Family History Cache Found

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Wednesday 6 September 2006

Sheet Music from the 13th and 14th Centuries

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Friday 1 September 2006

Information About Anchoresses

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