In this, The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Royal College of Nursing have collaborated to commission biographies of twenty individuals who played a notable part in the development of the nursing profession in the twentieth century. The biographies will be posted online on Read more…
Professor Christine E. HallettWednesday 1 April 2020, 5.30 – 7.30pmUniversity of Worcester, City Campus, Castle Street, Worcester WR1 3AS The year 2019 marks the centenary of the Nurses Registration Act, the legislation which inaugurated the first British professional nurses’ register and founded the General Nursing Council, the forerunner of the Read more…
GOAL: The goal of this research award is to disseminate scholarship regarding nurse practitioners to an international audience. By strengthening relationships and collaborations to increase access to historical scholarship, the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry (ECBCNHI) hopes to advance historical scholarship to practitioners. 1. The ECBCNHI leadership Read more…
Third Issue 2021 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 individual theme. In addition, all volumes provide an open Read more…
I often drive from my home in Chester along the North Wales coast. En route, I pass a large church, St Margaret’s at Boddelwyddan (known to locals as the ‘Marble Church’). It was only recently that I learnt that a Canadian nurse, Sister Rebecca MacIntosh, is buried there. She died Read more…
We are delighted to announce Susan Armstrong- Reid as the key-note speaker for the forthcoming Colloquium. Susan is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Ontario. In her research she seeks to progressively give voice to and interrogate nursing’s complex and contested contribution to global health and humanitarianism. Read more…
Professor Christine Hallett has recently been appointed as Professor of Nursing History. She has written a number of books on the subject and her latest volume is due for publication in December, which will explore the story and life of famous Great War nurse Edith Cavell. On Saturday 10 November, Read more…
The call for abstracts for the 2019 UKAHN colloquium in Cirencester is now available: https://ukahn.org/wp/ukahn-colloquium-2019/
The 2019 joint meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing will take place June 1-3, 2019 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory. In conjunction with the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Read more…
University of Nottingham, Humanities Building, Friday 11 January 2019, 10.00 – 16.00. Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Hallett (University of Huddersfield) This one-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers with an interest in the history and representations of healthcare, medicine, nursing, hospitals, and public health in the UK between 1800 and Read more…