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Where Do Royalty's Nannies Get Their Training?

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Science, Technology, Natural Sciences

3.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

British royals and lots of the world's other prominent families hire their nannies out of one century-old school: Norland College. Learn how it works in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/norland-college-royal-nannies.htm

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0:00.0

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

0:07.0

He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

0:13.7

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood

0:20.3

who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

0:22.9

A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.8

Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:37.6

Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Volvogobong here.

0:40.7

If you follow the British Royal family, you may have noticed that when its youngest member is

0:45.9

up here in public, they're often accompanied by a neatly dressed nanny,

0:49.8

wearing a tan uniform and maybe a brown hat.

0:53.4

A child care is always a rigorous job with lots to learn about,

0:56.8

but these nannies have received a particular education at Norland College,

1:01.2

an academy that trains the nannies of the world's wealthiest families.

1:06.4

A formal child care education is a relatively new phenomenon.

1:10.0

For the article this episode is based on how stuff works spoke with social historian Dr. Louise Heron.

1:15.4

As she said, Britain and most European countries had some form of children's nurse,

1:20.4

but they would learn on the job.

1:22.4

So you could go from being a scullery maid to getting bumped up to lower nurse

1:26.4

remade and then eventually one day you might make children's nurse and be looking after the family.

1:33.6

This would change in England in 1892 when a primary school teacher named Emily Ward saw an opportunity.

1:41.1

Heron said she realized that the nurses and nurse remades were all uneducated.

1:46.2

She thought that there was a business opportunity in training children's nurses who could both raise

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