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…
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…
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 Change’. Registration fee: Regular all-inclusive $230; plus tax, Students $115 (excluding 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 it was the European Mental Hospital from its foundation in Read more…