This is fascinating! Strange that I’ve never heard of canary girls - there must be so much more to discover like this. I know that my grandma drive an ambulance in the war but only found out after she died. I would have loved to have talked to her about this, but she never mentioned it.
My first (second) teaching job was at a private school where their chemistry lab contained, among other things, badly expired picric acid (which is potentially explosive).
This is fascinating! Strange that I’ve never heard of canary girls - there must be so much more to discover like this. I know that my grandma drive an ambulance in the war but only found out after she died. I would have loved to have talked to her about this, but she never mentioned it.
It is sad she never talked about it, but sometimes people were just too traumatized. And society didn't look at mental health the same way back then.
My first (second) teaching job was at a private school where their chemistry lab contained, among other things, badly expired picric acid (which is potentially explosive).
WOW! That is scary!