Video and Podcast Links
“Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics”
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/florence-nightingale-and-her-crimean-war-statistics-lessons-for-hospital-safety-
Gresham College’s Professor McDonald discusses the impact of Florence Nightingale’s work in the Crimean War.
“What we can learn about economics from the Irish potato famine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICKrvYjt7w
Oxford University Press author Richard S. Grossman explains how the Irish potato famine provided broader lessons about economic pragmatism.
Web Links
Nationalism Project
http://www.nationalismproject.org/what.htm
Nationalism Project is a large website with modern scholars’ discussions on the origins of nationalism worldwide.
Weatherwatch: the Irish potato famine
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2011/sep/22/weatherwatch-irish-potato-famine
The Guardian examines how weather led to the Great Potato Famine.