The 9th November 2022 was a special day for the history of nursing and allied fields when three of Professor Christine Hallet’s students graduated. Dr Sarah Roger’s PhD is entitled ‘A Maker of Matrons’? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders: 1880–1919 . This Read more…
Thanks go to Dr Claire Chatterton for this fascinating and compelling blog: One hundred years ago this month, it was reported in the press that “a most remarkable situation has arisen” at a mental health institution near Nottingham, known variously as the Radcliffe Asylum or the Nottinghamshire County Mental Hospital Read more…
Her War by Amanda Lynn Gwinnup I am a PhD student in my final year at the University of Huddersfield, my thesis, provisionally titled Invisible Illnesses and Hidden Disabilities due to be submitted in 2022, focuses on the post-war experiences of Britain’s nurse veterans who were left disabled due to Read more…
This week we should all have been in Chichester at the annual UKAHN colloquium, but once again Covid spoiled our plans to meet in person. To ensure everyone receives their yearly dose of nursing history, on Tuesday 29 June the Royal College of Nursing History of Nursing Forum and UKAHN Read more…
It is very exciting to hear that the British Society for the History of Medicine Congress, aims to meet face to face, 15th -18th September in Sheffield this year. Call for abstracts is open until 31st May, and it would be great to see nursing history well represented in the Read more…
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…
Nursing history research is a vibrant and expanding discipline with an growing number of outlets for peer-reviewed publishing. Two of the main titles in Europe which focus on nursing history, The UKAHN Bulletin and The European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics (ENHE) have recently announcing calls for submissions for 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…
UKAHN is delighted and proud to announce that, Professor Claire Chatterton, one of its founder members and current member of the Committee has been made a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. We would like to congratulate Claire on this well-deserved recognition of her achievements in, and contributions to, Read more…