Edith Cavell – History in the Margins

Women of the Great War: Edith Cavell – “Patriotism is not enough”

By Pamela | October 16, 2018 |

For the last four years, the hundredth anniversary of the First World War has been a continuing theme here on the Margins and in other places where history buggs hang out. Now the anniversary of the Armistice is less than a month a away. In recognition of that anniversary, over the next two monthsI will…

Edith Cavell: “Patriotism Is Not Enough”

By Pamela | September 16, 2014 |

Not all the heroes of the First World War fought in the trenches. Forty-nine year old British nurse Edith Cavell was the director of the first nurses’ training school in Belgium. When Germany occupied Brussels in the first month of the war, Cavell refused to leave. She turned her clinic into a Red Cross hospital…