Pretty flippin stoked with these by artist Tom Bailey: 'title page' for the #Heroes2019 panel w @RE_histories & @MarkB7612; & my paper - "England has many heroes, but none more brave than they': Asylum Staff, Lifesaving, & the Colney Hatch Fire' - in cartoon form! #HistPsych

If in doubt: look at a vid on YouTube to talk you thru CPR. It'll tk 10 mins & might save a life #Heroes2019

If there's one thing u do over this wknd, & at the start of the working wk on Monday, it's find where the closest defibs are to u #Heroes2019

#HistMed & #Twitterstorians & any1 else: worth reading back thru my TL for 1st aid advice delivered by W Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service

14) Normal in these circs to break ribs. If ur on ur own & can run to nearby defib, USE THE DEFIB dn't try CPR. #Heroes2019

BTW if going to use defibrillator: remove anything metal (incl bras). But also remove false teeth #Heroes2019

13) CPR technique: on urself externally find the notch at the bottom of ur throat, and find the bottom of sternum. The middle of these points is where you place hands #Heroes2019

11) Then go back to primary survey. 12) Now CPR - better this than breaths. (Primary survey shd take no more than 1 min.) #Heroes2019

10) 2ndary survey. Check ead, back of neck, shoulders, chest, back, abdomen (÷ into 4 quarters & press, if not squishy, there's an issue), down the legs for symmetry or uneven length, finish on arms. #Heroes2019

9) HOLD ON! Before starting: all along continue to talk to the casualty: calms you, & they might gradually be coming round, and have checked pupil response & whether they can respond by squeezing ur hand #Heroes2019

7) Check colour & temperature for signs of circulation. Press thumb hard on forehead; if colour returns in 2 secs ok. Otherwise theres a problem. 8) Check pulse - radial or carotid. If no pulse, CPR next step. #Heroes2019

4) If no obvious issue, check airway & tilt head to keep open, so long as there is no obvs danger of spinal injury. 5) Place ear to face to assess breathing (2-5 breaths acceptable) 6) Check chest for injury #Heroes2019

Talking thru how to assess casualty. 1) approach if safe. 2) Check whether alert (left & right ear in case hearing damaged) & check there's not catastrophic bleed. 3) Pain response e.g. pinch ear lobe (keep pinched for 30 secs in case OD) #Heroes2019

Talking abt the Golden Hour in the fire service. [In recent yrs, this has been overridden somewhat by the Platinum Ten Minutes since Iraq and Afghanistan.] #Heroes2019

Yup. #Heroes2019

O.o. I can see the old blowing smoke up the bum as a past way to revive the drowned #Heroes2019

Final full session, the first aid workshop run by the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service. Talk noting how hands-on fire service are w patients (and now even greater w taking role of assisted entry for ambulance alongside the police service) #Heroes2019

Speaking abt 'Emily fans' today & the 'Hobhouse cult'. Dampier arguing that, unlike Max Jones' assertion that the hero died in the 20thc, in SA, in Blumfontein, in Boer history, the heroine is alive and well #Heroes2019

Talking now abt Hobhouse's work after the #FWW in Germany in establishing a feeding scheme (as a result of the British blockade) #Heroes2019 #AidHistory

This is very much a gendered lionisation. Mrs Steyn - friend of Hobhouse & member of powerful SA family - was central to the creation of the narrative around Hobhouse #Heroes2019

Central to this paper is the investiture in Emily Hobhouse of empathy, emotion, & angelic attributes, & the mobilisation of her figure - then & now - by nationalists #Heroes2019

Hobhouse is visiting the white camps as the representative of the South African Women's and Children's Relief Fund #Heroes2019 #AidHistory

In late 1900, Hobhouse visits the concentration camps established by Britain (22,000 children died in the camps). BUT only the white camps, not the black camps, which she described as a 'distraction' (15-20,000 ppl die in the black camps) #Heroes2019

Emilty Hobhouse died in 1926. The interment ceremony of the remains of Hobhouse in the monument to South African wmn was important as a 'public performance of heroism' #Heroes2019

Final speaker as the conference's closing keynote, Helen Dampier, @emilyhobhouse (Leeds Beckett), "Saint Emily': the creation of Emily Hobhouse as a Heroine in South Africa, 1901-1926' #Heroes2019

Quintinshill railway disaster (22 May 1915 Gretna, Scotland) was collision btwn local & troop trains. Express train crashes into this collision. Event links 2gether civilian & soldier funerals, but also soldiers as brave & death as awful as those in the trenches #Heroes2019

Underscoring the links made between descriptions of the heroism of miners & that of soldiers. Outlining the 'everyday heroism' of miners & their post-disaster rescuers #Heroes2019

Final paper in panel, Ann-Marie Foster (QUB), 'Hierarchies of heroism? Quintinshill, West Stanley, and the #FWW' #Heroes2019

Very good at including the popular culture around heroism and death on the railway. Currently listening to 'The Ballad of John Axon', based on a real incident & part of a series of 1960s BBC programmes centring on changing industry (e.g. disappearing steam trains) #Heroes2019

Railway incidents per year rocket between the 1860s and 1880s. Driver error was thought the second highest cause of such incidents. So the driver held ur life in his hands #Heroes2019

Next up, @DrOliBetts on 'The steam engine driver and industrial heroism' #Heroes2019