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Nurse Edith Cavell and the British World War One propaganda campaign

Early news reports, which inspired a number of propaganda postcards, incorrectly said Edith Cavell had fainted after refusing to wear a blindfold at her execution Edith Cavell died as a pioneering ...
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BBC History Magazine reveals executed WWI nurse's links with British intelligence service nurse Edith Cavell, the British nurse executed in Brussels by the Germans in the First World War for helping ...
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Edith Cavell: Appeal to find missing third act of opera

Libraries are being asked to check their shelves and archives in the hope of unearthing a 1920s musical score recounting the story of a war heroine. The piece is the missing third act of an opera that ...
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Edith Cavell: the British nurse who taught women the way of the stiff upper lip

In 1932, Madame Tussaud’s asked their younger visitors to choose from among the waxworks the individual they most wanted to be like when they grew up. The most popular answer was not the kind of ...
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Nurse Edith Cavell and the British World War One propaganda campaign

Edith Cavell died as a pioneering nurse exactly 100 years ago, executed by the German army on 12 October 1915 for helping British soldiers get home from Belgium. Her death became notorious across the ...