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…
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…
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…
By Sarah Rogers, PhD Student University of Huddersfield Recently, whilst reflecting on a circular letter which Eva Lückes, matron of The London Hospital (1880-1919), wrote to her nurses during World War 1, I was struck by how apposite her introductory passage was: ‘The sudden outbreak of war at the beginning Read more…