#The Angel of Scutari

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What Are the TARDIS' HADS in Doctor Who?

What Are the TARDIS' HADS in #DoctorWho?

Last mentioned in the Wild Blue Yonder when the TARDIS needs to recover from having coffee spilt into its systems, the Doctor talks about the HADS — a defence mechanism that engages when the TARDIS is under attack and moves itself and or its occupants to somewhere safe. But what exactly are the HADS and when did the Doctor first mention them? The HADS, which stands primarily for the Hostile…

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sometimes I remember within seven audios the Doctor hugs Ace so tightly that their hearts beating together will summon the TARDIS, that Ace kisses him and says when she thought of what she loved, it was him, the TARDIS and their life together, and that when the Doctor sacrifices himself Ace drops her life, her boyfriend that's going to propose, her job, even the chance to say goodbye, everything she could never have had on the off chance she could bring him back and I think about how Big Finish has just done incomprehensibly wonderful things in carrying on and growing these characters. Also that if I think too much about it too often I will have a heart attack.

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Seventh Doctor - Project: Blue Box

TV Stories

◆ Time and the Rani

◆ Paradise Towers

◆ Delta and the Bannerman

◆  Dragonfire

◆ Remembrance of the Daleks

◆ The Hapiness Patrol

◆ Silver Nemesis

◆ The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

◆ Battlefield

◆ Ghost Light

◆ The Curse of Fenric

◆ Survival

Audio Adventures

- 7th Doctor Adventures

◆ Last of the Titans

◆ Return of the Daleks

◆ Dominion

◆ The Trial of a Time Machine

◆ Vanguard

◆ The Jabari Countdown

◆ The Dread of Night

◆ Bad Day in Tinseltown

◆ The Ribos Inheritance

◆ London Orbital

◆ Scream of the Daleks

◆ Operation Dusk

◆ Naomi’s Ark

- Main Range

◆ Unregenerate!

◆ Bang-Bang-a-Boom

◆ Flip-Flop

◆ The Fires of Vulcan

◆ Red

◆ We Are the Daleks

◆ The Warehouse

◆ Terror of the Sontarans

◆ 1963: The Assassination Games

◆ The Defectors

◆ The Sirens of Time

◆ The Genocide Machine

◆ The Grey Man of the Mountain - ★★★☆☆

◆ The Fearmonger - ★★★★☆

The Fearmonger is a story with a lot of say about the social politic scenario it was made and that uses of its themes to work perfectly with the regulars and their relationship - that brings them closer by putting the trust Ace and Seven have in each on check. A good start for their ternure in audio.

Complete review: here.

◆ Dust Breeding

◆ Colditz - ★★★☆☆

◆ The Rapture

◆ The Shadow of the Scourge

◆ The Dark Flame

◆ The Harvest

◆ Dreamtime

◆ LIVE 34

◆ Night Thoughts

◆ No Man’s Land

◆ Nocturne

◆ The Dark Husband

◆ Forty-Five

◆ Shadow Planet/World Apart

◆ Muse of Fire

◆ The Flying Dutchman/Displaced

◆ The Magic Mousetrap

◆ Enemy of the World

◆ The Angel of Scutari

◆ Project: Destiny

◆ A Death in the Family

◆ Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge

◆ Protect and Survive

◆ Robophobia

◆ The Doomsday Quatrain

◆ House of Blue Fire

◆ Black and White

◆ Gods and Monsters

◆ Afterlife

◆ Revenge of the Swarm

◆ Mask of Tragedy

◆ Signs and Wonders

◆ You Are the Doctor and Other Stories

◆ A Life of Crime

◆ Fiesta of the Damned

◆ Maker of Demons

◆ The High Price of Parking

◆ The Blood Furnace

◆ The Silurian Candidate

◆ Red Planets

◆ The Dispossessed

◆ The Quantum Possibility Engine

◆ Project: Lazarus

◆ Master

◆ Valhalla

◆ Frozen Time

◆ The Death Collectors/Spider’s Shadow

◆ Kingdom of Silver/Keepsake

◆ A Thousand Tiny Wings

◆ Klein’s Story/Survival of the Fittest

◆ The Architects of History

◆ The Shadow Heart

◆ The Psychic Circus

◆ The Monsters of Gokroth

◆ The Moons of Vulpana

◆ An Alien Werewolf in London

◆ Persuasion

◆ Starlight Robbery

◆ Daleks Among Us

◆ The Two Masters

◆ Warlock’s Cross

◆ Subterfuge

◆ The End of the Beginning

◆ Dark Universe

- The Companion Chronicles

◆ Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

◆ The Prisoner’s Dilemma

◆ Project: Nirvana

- The Lost Stories

◆ Thin Ice

◆ Crime of the Century

◆ Animal

◆ Earth Aid

- Classic Doctor, New Mosnters

◆ Harvest of the Sycorax

- Short Trips

◆ The Devil’s Footprints

◆ Dark Convoy

◆ Doctors and Dragons

◆ The Riparian Ripper

◆ Inside Story

◆ The Shadow Trader

◆ Crystal Ball

◆ The Shrine of Sorrows

◆ Dead Woman Walking

◆ Critical Mass

◆ Washington Burns

◆ Forever Fallen

◆ Police and Shreeves

◆ The Hesitation Deviation

◆ Twilight’s End

◆ The Night Before Christmas

Books

◆ Timewyrm: Genesis

◆ Timewyrm: Exodus

◆ Timewyrm: Apocalypse

◆ Timewyrm: Revelation

◆ Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible

◆ Cat’s Cradle: Warhead

◆ Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark

◆ Nightshade

◆ Love and War

◆ Transit

◆ The Highest Science

◆ The Pit

◆ Deceit

◆ Lucifer Rising

◆ White Darkness

◆ Shadowmind

◆ Birthright

◆ Iceberg

◆ Blood Heat

◆ The Dimension Riders

◆ The Left-Handed Hummingbird

◆ Conundrum

◆ No Future

◆ Tragedy Day

◆ Legacy

◆ Theatre of War

◆ All-Consuming Fire

◆ Blood Harvest

◆ Strange England

◆ First Frontier

◆ St Anthony’s Fire

◆ Falls the Shadow

◆ Parasite

◆ Warlock

◆ Set Piece

◆ Infinite Requiem

◆ Sanctuary

◆ Human Nature

◆ Original Sin

◆ Sky Pirates!

◆ Zamper

◆ Toy Soldiers

◆ Head Games

◆ The Also People

◆ Shakedown

◆ Just War

◆ Warchild

◆ SLEEPY

◆ Death and Diplomacy

◆ Happy Endings

◆ GodEngine

◆ Christmas on a Rational Planet

◆ Return of the Living Dad

◆ The Death of Art

◆ Damaged Goods

◆ So Vile a Sin

◆ Bad Therapy

◆ Eternity Weeps

◆ The Room With no Doors

◆ Lungbarrow

◆ The Dying Days

◆ Illegal Alien

◆ The Hollow Men

◆ Matrix

◆ Storm Harvest

◆ Prime Time

◆ Independence Day

◆ Bullet Time

◆ Relative Time

◆ Heritage

◆ Loving the Alien

◆ The Algebra of Ice

◆ Atom Bomb Blues

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seven & ace & hex relisten - 20/??

Audio 122: The Angel of Scutari

“At the moment, I’m the only person here who can stop these animals dying in their own filth!” 

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I need someone to find the person behind the drwhoguide site and get them to complete it. I need them. Or tell me there's a similar site. I need it.

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The Evelyn, Hex, and Cassie Schofield arc that wraps up in A Death in the Family really includes some of the best Doctor Who audios and stories in general, huh.

Both companions’ amazing introduction stories. The Angel of Scutari. Both Word Lord stories. Doctor Who and the Pirates. The Forge ‘Project’ trilogy. The Fearmonger and Colditz if you include Ace’s lead-in to The Harvest. The Vilag and Rossiter duology. Then you’ve got stuff that isn’t even arc-relevant like Jubilee. And of course the deliciously bleak & gothic merry-go-round that is Hex’s TARDIS travels, like Live 34 and Night Thoughts.

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Seventh Doctor, Ace, & Hex

The Seventh Doctors travels with Ace and Hex can are a bit of a mixed bag as far as starting points are concerned. On the one hand, we are introduced to a new companion and we see the continuation of Ace’s travels with the Doctor, however a lot of these stories tie heavily in with the stories featuring the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn, as well as continuing story arcs set up during Season 26, and so a lot of required ‘reading’ is needed. However, I hope to help you with this guide on how to get started listening to the Doctor, Ace, and Hex’s travels together.

Some of the earlier stories featuring Hex reference stories from just before his arrival, namely Colditz and The Rapture. I recommend you listen to these stories before the ones featuring Hex.

So, let’s get started.

Standalone Travels

These stories are not part of any story arcs and do not require any previous listening.

58. The Harvest This is Hex’s introduction story. Listen to this story before you listen to anything else Hex related.

67. Dreamtime

74. LIVE 34

79. Night Thoughts

82. The Settling

89. No Man’s Land

92. Nocturne

106. The Dark Husband

120. The Magic Mousetrap

121. Enemy of the Daleks

226. Shadow Planet / World Apart

245. Muse of Fire

268. The Flying Dutchman / Displaced

The Elder Gods Arc

This arc features Fenric from the Seventh Doctor TV story “The Curse of Fenric” in a key role. While it is not necessary to watch the story before listening to this arc, I would recommend it. Although just a familiarity for who Fenric is and his relationship with the Doctor will suffice.

115. Forty-Five

122. The Angel of Scutari

139. Project: Destiny

(This story features the Forge and Cassie Schofield from the Sixth Doctor’s travels with Evelyn. See my post on the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn stories for a guide on which stories to listen to before this one.)

140. A Death in the Family

(This story features Evelyn after she has left the Sixth Doctor.)

141. Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge

149. Robophobia

151. The Doomsday Quatrain

152. House of Blue Fire

162. Protect and Survive

163. Black and White

164. Gods and Monsters

The Hector Thomas Arc

This arc follows on directly from the events of the Elder Gods arc. Listen to that arc first before listening to this one.

181. Afterlife

189. Revenge of the Swarm

190. Mask of Tragedy

191. Signs and Wonders

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Big Finish Audio Masterpost

Part One: The Doctors

I’ve been working my way through a big chunk of Big Finish audios, so I’m putting here my space for all the ones I’ve listened to (with a rating out of ten), what I’m currently listening to, and what I’ve still got to get through (although I listen to some of them sporadically, so there may be random listens in sections). I’ll be updating this as I go along.

This part is for all the main stories featuring the Doctor. Put in reverse Doctor order because wibbly wobbly.

[x] = Listened to

[ ] = Not listened to yet

I’m no proper reviewer, but if anyone wants reviews or opinions on some of these, I’ll be happy to provide 👍

Eighth Doctor

With Charley & C’Rizz:

- [x] Storm Warming (6/10)

- [x] Sword of Orion (6/10)

- [x] The Stones of Venice (5/10)

- [x] Minuet In Hell (3/10)

- [x] Invaders From Mars (7/10)

- [x] The Chimes of Midnight (10/10)

- [x] Seasons of Fear (7/10)

- [x] Embrace the Darkness (6/10)

- [x] The Time of the Daleks (7/10)

- [x] Neverland (9/10)

- [x] Zagreus (7/10)

- [x] Scherzo (9/10)

- [x] The Creed of the Kromon (6/10)

- [x] The Natural History of Fear (9/10)

- [x] The Twilight Kingdom (5/10)

- [x] Faith Stealer (7/10)

- [x] The Last (7/10)

- [x] Caedroia (9/10)

- [x] The Next Life (7/10)

- [x] Terror Firma (7/10)

- [x] Scaredy Cat (5/10)

- [x] Other Lives (6/10)

- [x] Time Works (6/10)

- [x] Something Inside (6/10)

- [x] Memory Lane (8/10)

- [x] Absolution (5/10)

- [x] The Girl Who Never Was (9/10)

With Mary Shelley:

- [x] The Company of Friends (6/10)

- [x] The Silver Turk (9/10)

- [x] The Witch from the Well (6/10)

- [x] Army of Death (7/10)

With Lucie:

- [x] Blood of the Daleks (7/10)

- [x] Horror of Glam Rock (6/10)

- [x] Immortal Beloved (6/10)

- [x] Phobos (5/10)

- [x] No More Lies (6/10)

- [x] Human Resources (8/10)

- [x] Dead London (5/10)

- [x] Max Warp (9/10)

- [x] Brave New Town (9/10)

- [x] The Skull of Sobek (5/10)

- [x] Grand Theft Cosmos (6/10)

- [x] The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (8/10)

- [x] Sisters of the Flame/Vengeance of Morbius (6/10)

- [x] Orbis (6/10)

- [x] Hothouse (7/10)

- [x] The Beast of Orlok (5/10)

- [x] Wirrn Dawn (6/10)

- [x] The Scapegoat (5/10)

- [x] The Cannibalists (5/10)

- [x] The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web (7/10)

- [x] Death in Blackpool (9/10)

- [x] Situation Vacant (7/10)

- [x] Nevermore (7/10)

- [x] The Book of Kells (6/10)

- [x] Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars (8/10)

- [x] Relative Dimensions (7/10)

- [x] Prisoner of the Sun (6/10)

- [x] Lucie Miller/To the Death (10/10)

Seventh Doctor

With Ace & Hex

- [x] Dust Breeding (4/10)

- [x] Colditz (6/10)

- [x] The Rapture (5/10)

- [x] The Harvest (6/10)

- [x] Dreamtime (6/10)

- [x] LIVE 34 (9/10)

- [x] Night Thoughts (5/10)

- [ ] The Settling

- [x] No Man’s Land (6/10)

- [ ] Nocturne

- [ ] The Dark Husband

- [x] Forty-Five (9/10)

- [x] The Magic Mousetrap (9/10)

- [x] Enemy of the Daleks (9/10)

- [x] The Angel of Scutari (9/10)

- [x] Project: Destiny (9/10)

- [x] A Death in the Family (10/10)

- [x] Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge (7/10)

- [x] Robophobia (6/10)

- [ ] The Doomsday Quatrain

- [x] House of Blue Fire (6/10)

- [x] Protect and Survive (8/20)

- [x] Black and White (7/10)

- [x] Gods and Monsters (9/10)

- [x] Afterlife (8/10)

- [x] Revenge of the Swarm (7/10)

- [x] Mask of Tragedy (6/10)

- [x] Signs and Wonders (7/10)

- [x] Shadow Planet/World Apart (6/10)

With Klein:

- [ ] A Thousand Tiny Wings

- [ ] Klein’s Story

- [ ] Survival of the Fittest

- [ ] The Architects of History

- [ ] Persuasion

- [ ] Starlight Robbery

- [ ] Daleks Among Us

- [ ] Warlock’s Cross

Sixth Doctor

With Evelyn:

- [x] The Marian Conspiracy (6/10)

- [ ] The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

- [ ] The Apocalypse Element

- [ ] Bloodtide

- [x] Project: Twilight (8/10)

- [ ] The Sandman

- [ ] Jubilee

- [ ] Doctor Who and the Pirates

- [x] Project: Lazarus (8/10)

- [ ] Arrangements For War

- [ ] Medicinal Purposes

- [ ] Pier Pressure

- [ ] The Nowhere Place

- [ ] 100

- [ ] Assassin in the Limelight

- [ ] The Crimes of Thomas Brewster

- [ ] The Feast of Axos

- [ ] Industrial Evolution

With Charley:

- [x] The Condemned (6/10)

- [x] The Doomwood Curse (6/10)

- [x] Brotherhood of the Daleks (5/10)

- [x] The Raincloud Man (6/10)

- [x] Patient Zero (7/10)

- [x] Paper Cuts (4/10)

- [x] Blue Forgotten Planet (9/10)

The Land of Fiction Trilogy:

- [x] City of Spires (6/10)

- [x] The Wreck of the Titan (7/10)

- [x] Legend of the Cybermen (10/10)

Fifth Doctor

With Nyssa:

- [x] The Land of the Dead (5/10)

- [x] The Mutant Phase (6/10)

- [x] Primeval (6/10)

- [x] Spare Parts (9/10)

- [x] Creatures of Beauty (6/10)

- [x] Circular Time (8/10)

- [x] Renaissance of the Daleks (4/10)

- [x] Castle of Fear (6/10)

- [x] The Eternal Summer (8/10)

- [x] Plague of the Daleks (8/10)

With Tegan, Turlough, & Older Nyssa:

- [x] Cobwebs (7/10)

- [x] The Whispering Forest (6/10)

- [x] The Cradle of the Snake (8/10)

- [x] Heroes of Sontar (7/10)

- [ ] Kiss of Death

- [ ] Rat Trap

- [ ] The Emerald Tiger

- [ ] The Jupiter Conjunction

- [ ] The Butcher of Brisbane

- [ ] Eldrad Must Die!

- [ ] The Lady of Mercia

- [ ] Prisoners of Fate

- [ ] Mistfall

- [ ] Equilibrium

- [ ] The Entropy Plague

[dyonisia96]

Why does sixie get his limbs removed so much? Has this become a sixth doctor trope or something? Should I include it in a sixth doctor bingo?

McCoy also makes small distressed noises. It's on a roll of a dice: either Seven makes you a philosophic speech you understand NOTHING of about evil and how evil keeps coming back and nihilism and-- or you get no words at all and just confused hurt noises (Angel of Scutari/Project Destiny).

If Colin and Bonnie screamed together they would punch a hole through the fabric of the universe and they already did that once. Not the screaming, the punching a hole through the fabric of the universe. I won't say in which audio XD I know but I don't want to spoil - I'm also evil. You will live with the looming - haha - awareness that yes they did that at some point (more or less, it's complicated).

Also, let's include more mental scarring in the audios once again, please. That's good. XD I mean mental scarring for the listener of course.

it’s too bad the doctor who audio plays seem to play it safe more than they did back in the early 2000s and are mostly trying to replicate the tone of the tv show circa 2008, like, you know, what’s the point if they aren’t making david tennant slit his own throat with a broach or whatever. it’s his turn to get his limbs hacked off. where’s all the bloodshed. not a single person is eating a live rat in any of these

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Honoring Nurses: Florence Nightengale   13 May 2020

This week our country is honoring nurses.  Today is National Nurses Day. This year is obviously even more special due to the coronavirus pandemic. As my mother was a nurse and one of my daughters is a physical therapist,  it seems abundantly appropriate to write this blog about  Florence  Nightingale.  It is also a connection to  Matilda  Joslyn  Gage,  as she volunteered in hospital wards near her home during the  Civil  War rolling bandages and nursing wounded and ill soldiers.  Just as we are enduring the horrors of an extremely contagious disease, Nightengale battled Cholera during the  Crimean  War.  In  1854, British troops invaded the  Russian-held  Crimean Peninsula in response to aggressive moves by Czar Nicholas I to expand his territory  This scenario should sound quite familiar to us,  as  Putin put some of the same moves on the  Ukraine Crimea with the struggle over the Crimea.   Next week,  on May 12th,  Britain is also celebrating  Florence Nightingale’s 200th  birthday.  They will lay a wreath at Waterloo Place, a special version of the annual Procession of the Lamp at Westminster Abbey, a two-day conference on nursing and global health sponsored by the Florence Nightingale Foundation, and tours of her summer home in Derbyshire.

About a dozen years ago when I visited Turkey for the first time, I crossed by ferry across the Bosporus Strait from the Eastern side of Istanbul (ancient Constantinople) to the Western side.  My companion Aziz, whose father had been a famous Breast Cancer surgeon, pointed to a large building, the Barrack Hospital at Scutari.  He informed me that this was the very building where Florence Nightingale toiled among thousands of wounded and sick British troops who had been transported across the Black Sea aboard filthy ships.  She had 38 nurses under her command while she ministered to troops packed in squalid wards, many of them wracked by frostbite, gangrene, dysentery, and cholera.

Nightingale was a nurse for only three years.  But her pioneering work as a statistician and as an early advocate for the modern idea that health care is a human right–just ask Bernie Sanders–and her insistence on being a tireless caregiver despite the objections of the British officers.  (Misogyny, do ya think?)  Nursing in those days was regarded as disreputable and suitable only for lower-class women.  But Florence’s father, a wealthy heir living in a manor house, tutored had tutored her in mathematics and the classics.  This is very similar to the instruction that Matilda got from her physician father.  Also, just like Matilda, Florence grew up surrounded by intellectuals who were enlightened aristocrats who campaigned for outlawing the slave trade and other reforms. You may recall that Hezekiah, Matilda’s father, also maintained a house on the Underground Railroad. Thus, Florence “craved for some regular occupation, for something worth doing instead of frittering away time on useless trifles.”  Despite the opposition of her parents and ridicule of her sister Parthenope, she was convinced her destiny was to do God’s work.  To master her profession, she spent time at a highly regarded nursing school, Kaiserwerth in Germany.  She served as superintendent there for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen, a hospital for governesses  She also cared for prostitutes during a cholera epidemic in 1853. At Scutari, she would often go over the heads of her superior to order supplies from their stores.  They also felt that she was too ambitious and always struggling for power.  

Yet her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died–ten times more from typhus, cholera, typhoid fever, and dysentery than from battle wounds.  Eventually, a sanitary commission was dispatched to Scutari and deaths began to diminish.  The commission cleaned out latrines and cesspits, flushed out sewers and removed a dead horse that was polluting the water supply.  The mortality rate dropped from 42.7% to 2,2%.  But Nightingale’s contribution was disputed in a controversial 1998 biography, Avenging Angel, which contends that Scutari had the highest death rates of any hospital in the Crimea.  It accused her of not grasping the role of sanitation in disease prevention until many thousands had died.  the author, Hugh Small, that she focused instead on giving troops warm clothing and hearty food.  He also surmised that “repressed guilt” over her failures caused her to have a nervous breakdown, which turned her into an invalid for long stretches throughout the rest of her life.  I can’t help but think of the dedicated doctor in New York who tirelessly treated COVID patients–most of whom died–killed herself this week, apparently not being able to take it anymore. But, actually, all Crimean War hospitals were ghastly and the statistics suggest that others had higher death rates than Scutari.  Nightingale blamed the military doctors and administrators, chastising them for “a host of murderess error including sending cholera cases to overcrowded wards” and delaying having the hospital “drained and ventilated. “The sanitation commission investigation confirmed Nightingale’s suspicions about the links between filth and disease. The Crimean War killed 900,000 combatants.  The horrors Florence Nightingale witnessed at Scutari weighed on her the rest of her life.  She later described the words she first encountered as “slaughterhouses.”

In Balaklava, a fishing port in the Crimea, Nightingale would climb from the harbor to the Castle Hospital, which was just a collection of huts and barracks on a flat patch of ground overlooking the Black Sea.  She had sailed there from Scutari across the Black Sea to inspect medical facilities near the front lines.  The 34-year-old Nightingale drilled borehole wells to improve the water supply and insulated huts with felt to protect wounded soldiers against the winter cold.  She worked to improve their food by regularly making sure the soldiers received meat, not just gristle and bone.  She had fresh bread shipped in daily from Constantinople.  She also braved bullets traveling by carriage, on horseback and on foot to inspect other hospitals.  She even visited the trenches outside Sevastopol, where she was moved by the sight of the troops “mustering & forming at sundown.”  Maybe worse was the resentment of officers and bureaucrats who regarded her as an interloper.  She wrote in her journal,” There is not an official who would not burn me like Joan of Arc if he could, but they know that the War Office cannot turn me out because the country is with me.”  She became ill with what the troops called “Crimean Fever,” an inflammation of the vertebrae that would leave her in pain and bedridden for much of her life.  Despite her illness, she was determined to work until the last British troops had gone home, returning twice during the war.  In a letter she wrote, “I have never been off my horse until 9 or 10 o’clock at night, except when it was too dark to walk home over these crags even with a lantern.  During the greater part of the day I have been without food, except a little brandy and water (you see, I am taking to drinking like my comrades in the army)”

The Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War.  She had spent almost two years in the conflict zone.  A front-page engraving in the Illustrated London News showed her making her rounds with her lamp, looking very heroic. Once back in England, she gathered data from military hospitals in Constantinople that verified what she had long suspected:  Nearly seven times as many British soldiers had died of disease in the Crimean War than in combat, and the deaths dropped dramatically once hospitals at the front were cleaned up.  She also collated data from military hospitals in Great Britain, which were so poorly ventilated, filthy, and overcrowded that their mortality rates far exceeded those at Scutari following the changes implemented by the Sanitary Commission. She shared her graphics with the military convincing them to improve hospitals throughout Great Britain.  Parliament voted to finance the first comprehensive sewage system for London.  In our present day, Italy has started to check the sewers to examine for the coronavirus’ presence, yet another source of this deadly modern-day plague.

Though often bedridden, she continued to gather data on every aspect of medical care.  She sent questionnaires, collected and analyzed results, wrote reports, and established investigative commissions.  Nightingale came to believe that Using statistics to understand how the world worked was to understand the mind of God. She founded the country’s first nurses’ training school.  for her, it was a moral crusade intended “to promote the honest employment, the decent maintenance, and provision, to protect and restrain, to elevate in purifying…a number…of poor and virtuous women.”   Like Matilda, she criticized the Poor Laws, prodding Parliament to improve the workhouses (shelters for the indigent and used trained nurses.  A radical–like Matilda–she had “a non-judgmental, non-moralistic view of the poor.”  She also wrote prolifically about crime, labor and the social causes of madness.  She also originated the concept that soldiers injured in war should be considered “neutral” and that they and their caregivers should be accorded protection on the battlefield.  That ethic became central to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was founded in Geneva in 1863.

Think about what our nurses around the world have been through since the beginning of our current epidemic.  Think about the couple of dozen nurses from Syracuse who volunteered to go to the heart of NYC for two weeks to attend to severe cases.  Think about all the death and trauma they experienced throughout exhausting days and nights.  It makes me want to stand up and applaud like the citizens of New York City do from inside their apartments every night at 7:00 pm.  Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap…

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Who Is Mary Seacole, the Star of Flux: War of the Sontarans?

Who Is Mary Seacole, the Star of #DoctorWho Flux: War of the Sontarans?

The second episode of Doctor Who Series 13 (aka Flux), War of the Sontarans, sees the Sontarans as an opposing faction in the Crimean War fighting against the British army. One of the guest characters is a lady called Mary Seacole. While for some that name isn’t well known, for others Mary Seacole is just as important as the other famous nurse of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale. In this…

[i-am-become-a-name]

"I miss her though. Her and the Doctor. But it’s like they’re a package deal, y’know? You don’t get one without the other. [...] I always had the idea of traveling with the Doctor as this temporary kind of thing. That it‘d end. It’s not like that for Ace though. Maybe it was once, but not any more. [...] I belong somewhere. The Doctor doesn’t. Or he belongs everywhere, I don’t know. And Ace belongs with him. If they’re still alive, I hope they’re still together.”

Hex, darling. (The Angel of Scutari, 1:07)

[lucascecil]

Sétimo Doutor - Projeto: Caixa Azul

TV Stories

◆ Time and the Rani

◆ Paradise Towers

◆ Delta and the Bannerman

◆  Dragonfire

◆ Remembrance of the Daleks

◆ The Hapiness Patrol

◆ Silver Nemesis

◆ The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

◆ Battlefield

◆ Ghost Light

◆ The Curse of Fenric

◆ Survival

Audio Adventures

- 7th Doctor Adventures

◆ Last of the Titans

◆ Return of the Daleks

◆ Dominion

◆ The Trial of a Time Machine

◆ Vanguard

◆ The Jabari Countdown

◆ The Dread of Night

◆ Bad Day in Tinseltown

◆ The Ribos Inheritance

◆ London Orbital

◆ Scream of the Daleks

◆ Operation Dusk

◆ Naomi's Ark

- Main Range

◆ Unregenerate!

◆ Bang-Bang-a-Boom

◆ Flip-Flop

◆ The Fires of Vulcan

◆ Red

◆ We Are the Daleks

◆ The Warehouse

◆ Terror of the Sontarans

◆ 1963: The Assassination Games

◆ The Defectors

◆ The Sirens of Time

◆ The Genocide Machine

◆ The Grey Man of the Mountain - ★★★☆☆

Uma história gostosinha de ouvir que talvez podia ter cortado uns quinze minutinhos pra dar uma melhorada no ritmo e que, no final das contas, é inofensiva. Até demais, falta um pouco de ambição. Mas eu gosto muito dos personagens, da dinâmica do elenco e até mesmo dos temas que ela abre nas duas últimas partes. A resposta do que é o fantasma de Ben MacDui não é muito inovadora (é até parecida com um outro áudio do Sétimo e da Ace que se passa pouco depois da temporada vinte e seis), mas eu adoro. O Brigadier nos minutos finais dá 7/10 pra essa aventura. Mesmo se eu desse notas de 0 a 10 eu discordaria, vale só seis mesmo.

Crítica completa: aqui.

◆ The Fearmonger - ★★★★☆

The Fearmonger é uma narrativa com muito a dizer sobre o cenário político social em que foi escrita e que utiliza de seus temas pra trabalhar de forma maestral a dinâmica do elenco regular - elenco esse que se benificia muito dos adendos que a história trás, dando um passo importante na relação Doutor-Ace ao colocar a confiança dos dois em jogo.

Crítica completa: aqui.

◆ Dust Breeding

◆ Colditz - ★★★☆☆

Com uma ambientação interessante e um elenco de personagens engajante, Colditz é uma boa história. Não diria que entra entre as minhas favoritas, mas ainda foram duas horinhas muito bem gastas. Faz um ótimo trabalho com os regulares, mesmo apresentando um elemento ou dois que não me atraí em Doctor Who. O maior acerto, porém, está na Klein - uma personagem forte e memorável, e que com motivo voltaria a aparecer.

Crítica completa: aqui.

◆ The Rapture

◆ The Shadow of the Scourge

◆ The Dark Flame

◆ The Harvest

◆ Dreamtime

◆ LIVE 34

◆ Night Thoughts

◆ No Man's Land

◆ Nocturne

◆ The Dark Husband

◆ Forty-Five

◆ Shadow Planet/World Apart

◆ Muse of Fire

◆ The Flying Dutchman/Displaced

◆ The Magic Mousetrap

◆ Enemy of the World

◆ The Angel of Scutari

◆ Project: Destiny

◆ A Death in the Family

◆ Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

◆ Protect and Survive

◆ Robophobia

◆ The Doomsday Quatrain

◆ House of Blue Fire

◆ Black and White

◆ Gods and Monsters

◆ Afterlife

◆ Revenge of the Swarm

◆ Mask of Tragedy

◆ Signs and Wonders

◆ You Are the Doctor and Other Stories

◆ A Life of Crime

◆ Fiesta of the Damned

◆ Maker of Demons

◆ The High Price of Parking

◆ The Blood Furnace

◆ The Silurian Candidate

◆ Red Planets

◆ The Dispossessed

◆ The Quantum Possibility Engine

◆ Project: Lazarus

◆ Master

◆ Valhalla

◆ Frozen Time

◆ The Death Collectors/Spider's Shadow

◆ Kingdom of Silver/Keepsake

◆ A Thousand Tiny Wings

◆ Klein's Story/Survival of the Fittest

◆ The Architects of History

◆ The Shadow Heart

◆ The Psychic Circus

◆ The Monsters of Gokroth

◆ The Moons of Vulpana

◆ An Alien Werewolf in London

◆ Persuasion

◆ Starlight Robbery

◆ Daleks Among Us

◆ The Two Masters

◆ Warlock's Cross

◆ Subterfuge

◆ The End of the Beginning

◆ Dark Universe

- The Companion Chronicles

◆ Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

◆ The Prisoner's Dilemma

◆ Project: Nirvana

- The Lost Stories

◆ Thin Ice

◆ Crime of the Century

◆ Animal

◆ Earth Aid

- Classic Doctor, New Mosnters

◆ Harvest of the Sycorax

- Short Trips

◆ The Devil’s Footprints

◆ Dark Convoy

◆ Doctors and Dragons

◆ The Riparian Ripper

◆ Inside Story

◆ The Shadow Trader

◆ Crystal Ball

◆ The Shrine of Sorrows

◆ Dead Woman Walking

◆ Critical Mass

◆ Washington Burns

◆ Forever Fallen

◆ Police and Shreeves

◆ The Hesitation Deviation

◆ Twilight’s End

◆ The Night Before Christmas

Books

◆ Timewyrm: Genesis

◆ Timewyrm: Exodus

◆ Timewyrm: Apocalypse

◆ Timewyrm: Revelation

◆ Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible

◆ Cat’s Cradle: Warhead

◆ Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark

◆ Nightshade

◆ Love and War

◆ Transit

◆ The Highest Science

◆ The Pit

◆ Deceit

◆ Lucifer Rising

◆ White Darkness

◆ Shadowmind

◆ Birthright

◆ Iceberg

◆ Blood Heat

◆ The Dimension Riders

◆ The Left-Handed Hummingbird

◆ Conundrum

◆ No Future

◆ Tragedy Day

◆ Legacy

◆ Theatre of War

◆ All-Consuming Fire

◆ Blood Harvest

◆ Strange England

◆ First Frontier

◆ St Anthony’s Fire

◆ Falls the Shadow

◆ Parasite

◆ Warlock

◆ Set Piece

◆ Infinite Requiem

◆ Sanctuary

◆ Human Nature

◆ Original Sin

◆ Sky Pirates!

◆ Zamper

◆ Toy Soldiers

◆ Head Games

◆ The Also People

◆ Shakedown

◆ Just War

◆ Warchild

◆ SLEEPY

◆ Death and Diplomacy

◆ Happy Endings

◆ GodEngine

◆ Christmas on a Rational Planet

◆ Return of the Living Dad

◆ The Death of Art

◆ Damaged Goods

◆ So Vile a Sin

◆ Bad Therapy

◆ Eternity Weeps

◆ The Room With no Doors

◆ Lungbarrow

◆ The Dying Days

◆ Illegal Alien

◆ The Hollow Men

◆ Matrix

◆ Storm Harvest

◆ Prime Time

◆ Independence Day

◆ Bullet Time

◆ Relative Time

◆ Heritage

◆ Loving the Alien

◆ The Algebra of Ice

◆ Atom Bomb Blues

[strange-destinations]

i keep starting to listen to Angel of Scutari and then abruptly stopping because I know how quickly things get bad and I’m never going to be emotionally prepared for it (and the next bunch of audios really)

[misscatholmes]

                           2018 || 50 Book Challenge || Masterpost

Newtown - Matthew Lysiak || 4 January 2018

Happy! - Grant Morrison || 17 January 2018 

Wynonna Earp - Season 0: #1 - Beau Smith || 12 February 2018

Wynonna Earp - Season 0: #2 - Beau Smith || 12 February 2018

Wynonna Earp - Season 0: #3 - Beau Smith || 12 February 2018

Wynonna Earp - Season 0: #4 - Beau Smith || 12 February 2018

Wynonna Earp: Season Zero #5 - Beau Smith || 26 February 2018

For Laci: A Mother’s Story - Sharon Rocha || 4 March 2018

Columbine - Dave Cullen || 12 March 2018 

BTVS: The Long Way Home #1 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: The Long Way Home #2 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: The Long Way Home #3 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: The Long Way Home #4 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: No Future for You #1 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: No Future for You #2 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: No Future for You #3 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: No Future for You #4 - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: The Chain - Joss Whedon || 7 May 2018

BTVS: Anywhere But Here - Joss Whedon || 9 May 2018

Duma Key - Stephen King || 15 May 2018

Lisey’s Story - Stephen King || 26 May 2018

Carrie - Stephen King || 2 June 2018

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1 - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa  || 3 June 2018

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa || 5 June 2018

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #3 - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa || 5 June 2018

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #4 - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa || 5 June 2018

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #5 - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa || 5 June 2018

Final Girls - Riley Sager || 6 June 2018

Doctor Who: The Angel of Scutari - Paul Sutton || 9 June 2018

Doctor Who: Dark Husband - David Quantick || 9 June 2018

Doctor Who: 1963: The Assassination Games - John Dorney || 10 June 2018

Doctor Who: Protect and Serve - Jonathan Morris || 10 June 2018

Doctor Who: Black and White - Matt Fitton || 10 June 2018

Doctor Who: Gods and Monsters - Mike Maddox || 10 June 2018

Doctor Who: The Magic Mousetrap - Matthew Sweet || 11 June 2018

Doctor Who: Project Destiny - Scott Cavan || 13 June 2018

Doctor Who: Enemy of the Daleks - David Bishop || 13 June 2018

[cool-stuffandthings]

They've done loads,

For the 4th Doctor there's Wrath of the Iceni, which features Boudicca

For the 5th Doctor there's The Church and the Crown, set in 17th century France. The Council of Nicaea, set in 325AD in Nicaea. Son of the Dragon, which feature Vlad the Impaler. The Lady of Mercia, which features Æthelfrid and has some time travel stuff. The Peterloo Massacre, about the titular event. Black Thursday, about a mining disaster in 1902

For the 6th Doctor there's The Marian Conspiracy, which features Queen Mary I. Doctor Who and the Pirates sorta is one, technically. Catch-1782, which is about Mel Bush's family history. The Behemoth, set in Bath 1756.

For the 7th Doctor there's The Fires of Vulcan, set in Pompeii on volcano day. The Settling, which features Oliver Cromwell attacking Ireland (the bastard). No Man's Land, set during World War 1. The Angel of Scutari, featuring Florence Nightingale during the Crimea War.

For the 8th Doctor there's Other Lives, set during the Great Exhibition in London.

And that's it I think, I could be wrong

Has Big Finish done any non First and Second Doctor pure historical audios?

I'd love to get any if they have.