Our first lesson focused on understanding what conditions were typically like in the Victorian times in hospitals near the battlefields.  We learnt that they were dirty, had problems with rats and that many men did not recover because infections spread so quickly.  We acted out the experience of a soldier we called, 'Bob'.  He was 'shot' on the battlefield, taken to a hospital, and felt worried at first that it might be one full of rats!  Luckily, it is swept clean and run by Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp.