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The Anning family were religious dissenters - Protestants who separated from the Church of England - and very poor. Out of nine or ten children, only Mary and her older brother, Joseph, survived to ...
We travel back to the 19th century to hear about the 'Industrial Revolution'; then meet the Stevensons to find out about the coming of the railways; then travel to 1830 to hear from Mary Anning ...
Fossil collector Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the early 1800s. She is remembered for making a number of important fossil discoveries of extinct animals, including ichthyosaurs and ...
"It feels like we kept the record in the family, which is really nice." Anning's mother sits alongside Ohuruogu on the board of the Lloyd Cowan Bursary, which helps bring down financial barriers ...
The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning, an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was ...
Amber Anning celebrates after winning the women ... she made the bold decision to leave her Brighton-based family, aged 19, to make a track career for herself in the US. When she arrived at ...
"My mum got me the flag for the Europeans, when we got the medal in the relay," said Anning. "But I knew it would be little bit special to bring a part of her and my family here, and bring home ...