2025 Colloquium Programme
UKAHN History of Nursing Research Colloquium
Keele University
Wednesday 25 June 202
9.30-10 Reception and arrival refreshments
10-10.15 Welcome and housekeeping
10.15-11.30 Panel One: Nursing London’s Hospitals
Sue Hawkins ‘ “Up in Isolation Things are Getting Hot”: an insiders view of Great Ormond
Street Hospital at the turn of the twentieth century’
Janet Hargreaves’s, ‘Sisters, Soldiers, and Syphilis: nursing at the West London Hospital’
11.30-11.45 Break and morning refreshments
11.45-1 Panel Two including poster presentations (for which discussion can continue during and after lunch
David Stewart, ‘The Nottinghamshire Nightingales’
Gavin Wilk poster, ‘From Limerick to New York and beyond: the early twentieth century nursing
career of Irish emigrant Anne Larkin’
Judi Pettigrew poster, ‘Co-creating and establishing the significance of the archive of Thomas
Costello, mid-twentieth century psychiatric nurse and occupational therapist
Elizabeth Pearson poster, ‘History, legacy and leadership: diaspora Uganda nurses and midwives’
1-2 Lunch
2-3.15 Panel Three: Nursing in critical contexts
Sharon Whiting, ‘A space of their own: Manchester’s early critical care nurses- an oral history project’
Jan-Thore Lockertsen, ‘Norwegian civilian nurses’ wartime nursing from the First Balkan War
(1912-13) to the end of the campaign in Norway on 10 June 1940′
3.15-3.30 Break and afternoon refreshments
3.30-4.45 Panel Four: Individual legacies
Vari Drennan, ‘ “Deeds not words”: the nurse suffragettes arrested 1906-14’
Amanda Gwinnup, ‘The Lady on a Tricycle: the life and legacy of Peterborough’s District Nursing
founder, Florence Saunders’