2026 Colloquium Programme
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UKAHN Colloquium 2026 Programme |
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9.15 Registration open with refreshments |
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Welcome 9.45 Vari Drennan, Colloquium 2026 convenor |
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Professor Claire Thurgate, Head of School of Nursing, Allied and Public Health, Kingston University |
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10.00-11.15 Panel 1. Theme of war |
| Jan-Thore Lockertsen, Eastern Front Sisters: Innocent Nurses or Ideological Actors? |
| Jane Brooks, “Oh that freak unit! You need not bother, you Sisters will never join it”: Female nurses and the No. 1 Mobile Military Hospital in the Desert War, 1941-1944. |
| Vari Drennan, Nurses awarded the Royal Red Cross in World War Two |
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11.15 Refreshment break |
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11.35-12.25 Round table. Theme of biography and sources |
| Janet Hargreaves, Looking for Molly,
Judi Pettigrew, “One of the chief methods of treatment”: the writings of nurse occupational therapists, 1930s–1950s, Gavin Wilk, ‘The blessed peace of a vacation was shattered’: the war experiences of nurse Mary E. Gladwin, Suzanne Askham, Publishing a 1920s nursing memoir: challenges of authentic narrative |
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12.30-13.00 Poster presentations |
| Dianne Yarwood, The AIDS pandemic; Caring for those affected by HIV/AIDS and reflections of nurses and carers from the 1980’s onward. |
| Hannah Amos, Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Making Room to Celebrate More |
| Antonia Harland-Lang & Kai Flynn, Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration – a new exhibition at the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum |
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Lunch 13.00 |
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13.45 -15.00 Panel 2. Theme of hospitals |
| Claire Chatterton, A period of much mental strain, care and harassing anxiety’ Typhoid fever outbreaks at the Chester Asylum 1878 and 1895-6 |
| Victoria Sweetmore, “We were dismantling more than buildings”: Mental health nurses, asylum closure, and professional identity in England, 1980–2000 |
| Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead, From first to last: the story of an isolation hospital and the matron who nursed it back to health |
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Refreshment break 15.00 |
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15.15-16.30 Panel 3. Theme of communities (nursing of communities, communities of nurses) |
| Nadzieja Kolodziejski, Caring for the Nation: Women, Nursing, and the Politics of Recognition in Revolutionary Ireland |
| Che Kelly, Pathways to Male Nursing: African and Caribbean Perspectives in Postwar Britain |
| Sue Campbell, Challenges of remote nursing on the St Kilda archipelago from the 1800’s until evacuation in 1930 |
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Closing words 16.30-16.35 Alannah Tomkins & Vari Drennan |