Sarah Rogers PhD student, University of Huddersfield Recently I read this quote written by Eva Lückes, matron of The London Hospital, 1880-1919. It seems to me, as relevant today, as when she wrote it nearly 140 years ago: ‘The most inconvenient and most dreaded of all illness is the occurrence Read more…
Dr Sue Hawkins, honorary researcher at Kingston University. What connects free school meals and pauper nurses? Both have been accused of promoting dependence on state aid. Last week, in the debate on provision of free school meals, one MP defended the Government’s refusal to back the plan, saying ‘generous, unconditional, Read more…
July 1926: ‘No adequate protection is taken to prevent dissemination of contagious or infectious diseases, and frequently patients are unable to obtain any assistance when they require It….’ [Report of the Select Committee on Nursing Homes] One of the many tragic consequences of the coronavirus within the UK has been Read more…
By Sarah Rogers, PhD Student University of Huddersfield Recently, whilst reflecting on a circular letter which Eva Lückes, matron of The London Hospital (1880-1919), wrote to her nurses during World War 1, I was struck by how apposite her introductory passage was: ‘The sudden outbreak of war at the beginning Read more…
In the Spring of 1917, a young staff nurse called Nellie Spindler paid a visit to one of the grandest of Europe’s gothic monuments: the medieval cathedral at Amiens. One of the youngest members of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), Nellie had been posted to the Western Read more…
In September 2017, I am starting PhD research at the University of Manchester: Eva Luckes, Maker of Matrons: Was Luckes a maker of matrons and did she socially engineer a generation of hospital matrons? At the UKAHN Colloquium in Huddersfield, supported by a University of Huddersfield Centre for Health Histories Read more…