Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. Once upon a time, Susan and I would sit at my big wooden dining table in a big wooden room to record.

As a result, let's just say that the sound quality was not always, shall we say, conducive to happy ears.

So little by little, we have been remastering our old shows in order to correct this.

Thank you so much, by the way, for sticking with us through all that static.

And so, we have simply removed it. Without further ado, here's the not new but significantly improved story of Beatrix Potter, which we first aired in 2016.

Now on with the show. And here's your 30-second summary.

You're certainly familiar with the rabbit. You probably know about the mice. You might have even encountered a certain fishing gentleman frog.

But what about the mysteries of mushrooms, the salvation of sheep, and the niceties of the national trust?

Stay tuned!

Let's talk about Beatrix Potter.

But first, let's drop her into history. In 1866, Jesse James held up his first bank in Liberty, Missouri.

Lucie B. Hobbs became the first US woman to earn her DDS degree. Andrew Johnson, he was the US president between Abel Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

Vito, the civil rights bill, which was then overwritten by Congress and became the 14th Amendment.

Andrew Rankin patented the urinal. J. Osterholt patented the tin can with a key opener.

Mary Anderson, the inventor of the windshield wiper, Buccasti and Sullivan, H. G. Wells were all born.

And on July 28th, 1866, Helen Beatrix Potter entered this world.

Helen Beatrix Potter was born on July 28th, 1866 in London at number two, Bolton Gardens.

She was the eldest of the two children of Rupert and Helen Leach Potter.

So both Papa and Emma had inherited considerable fortunes from their parents in the cotton industry printing on one side and mills on the other side.

They were part of this fortunate second generation of wealth who never had anything official to do.

Papa was technically a barrister and a solicitor, but there's no evidence that he actually ever had a case at all.

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