🖥️ We have lots of fascinating talks free to watch online, like this recording of our event with the Cartoon Museum.
Watch now to learn about the history and politics of nursing cartoons. Check out our YouTube channel for more 👉 https://bit.ly/4sGaMg3
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Today’s Find: “Mercy Street” a PBS medical drama from 2016-17 that focused on two nurses at a hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War tinyurl.com/mr2nxwjm #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
#histnursing - nursing was, and is, a dangerous occupation.
Today's Vintage Book Cover: Jerome Darwin Engel [b. 1909] published at least three medical novels 1940-42; this one in 1941 tinyurl.com/5bskzxmk #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
#HistNursing funding alert 📣👇
Grants of up to £2,500 are available for research projects, courses or activities related to #HistNursing and #Midwifery, for the duration of up to one year.
Closes: 5pm on 13 May
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#histnursing scholars - one for you ?
Great new blog post in time for your morning tea break! 🫖 #TeaUp #HistNursing @rcnhistory.bsky.social
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A bumper crop of #HistNursing #NursesinRed today
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#WomensHistory #WomenInRed #Wikipedia
One for #histnursing ?
Linked to the Exhibition on Nurse Catherine Pine - our #histnursing forum chair speaking on 'Deeds not Words - the nurse suffragettes arrested 1906-1914'. Wednesday 20th May at 4:00pm BST (London Time) #histnursing All details via the link florence-nightingale.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric... Matron Monk (1882 - 1962) CBE, RRC COSTJ was a nursing leader, matron of The London Hospital for 12 years and President of the College of Nursing (now RCN).
As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet... Matron Harriet Alsop MBE SRN ( 1867 -1950) advocate for nurses and nursing within the Poor Law system.
1922 painting of Sisi Nurse ( Charlotte Obama) instrumental in co- financing first midwifery trading in Nigeria #histnursing #womenshistorymonth. Painting by Aina Onabolu at Tate Modern exhibition.
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As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_H... (1881–1958), Military Matron during #WW1, Matron of the London Fever Hospital for over twenty five years, and founder member of Royal College of Nursing.
As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... Williamina McIntosh Barclay MBE (5 March 1883 – 15 July 1975) was a district nurse involved in the evacuation of the Scottish archipelago St Kilda.
I finally got to pay my respects to a special NZANS in Tidworth Military Cemetery- the only female from WW1- she died of influenza on the ‘death ship’ Tahiti, the captain thought nurses were frivolous. Her story is here nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/es… - almost couldn’t read headstone #HistNursing
oval silver medal, the rim inscribed 'Colonial Nursing Association 1896' with the figure 'Britannia' in profile in the centre. Attached to a blue ribbon. the top of the ribbon is a silver bar with oak leaves, another silver bar with 1912-1922 is fixed on the ribbon. (presumably dates of service)
Today's #HistNursing #Badge is from the Colonial Nursing Association 1895-1966
Formed to provide trained nurses to British communities abroad, esp in the British colonies
1919 renamed Overseas Nursing Ass
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What a great write up from @migrantvoice.bsky.social on our new exhibition, Moved to Care: Stories of nursing and migration. Thank you!
Read the review: www.migrantvoice.org/articles/mig...
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