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Gentle George
Elegant Edwin
Surprised Stanley
And angry, angry Eric.
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Peace On Earth 1918 - An Archive Advent Calendar #12
Today's archive nods to the 'Spanish' 'Flu pandemic which swept the world during the last years of World War 1. It had reached Orkney by the end of 1918 as this extract from the Stromness Public School Log Book shows:
This is perhaps not the most Christmassy of posts, we admit, so here are the betinselled heads of our beloved Orkney Room dwellers:
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