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 Read more…
The Child as Scientific Problem—and Business Opportunity: Paediatric Drug Policy in the United States, 1933-1979 This seminar is co-presented by The University of Manchester’s Health Services Research Centre (HSRC), Centre for the History of Science, Technology of Medicine (CHSTM) and Read more…
Chris Hallet and Keith Brindle On 5th July 1917 we held a conference for Year Nine school students (aged 14 AND 15) at the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds. The event was the culmination of about a years’ work. We Read more…
The annual Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN) conference will be hosted by the Nova Scotia Society in 2018, and will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The theme is ‘Tracing Nurses Footsteps: Nursing and the Tides of Read more…
The European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics is an interdisciplinary Open Access and peer- reviewed eJournal spanning the Humanities, Nursing Science, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies. The journal is published online once a year with each edition having an Read more…
I am now writing up my thesis on the Mental Health of the British in Colonial India, 1900-47. I have twice visited the Central Institute of Psychiatry in Ranchi, northern India, to look at their archives from the period when 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, Read more…
In St Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries, where the poet Robert Burns is buried, another monument marks the burial place of over 420 people, who died from Asiatic Cholera, between September and November 1832. Cholera originated in India and first entered Britain Read more…
Today, it is difficult to imagine that this ‘Bar-Grill-Pub’ on Broad Street, Birmingham, today the hub of the city’s nightlife, was once described as ‘one of the very best sites that could possibly be selected within the Borough of Birmingham Read more…