UKAHN 25th Annual Colloquium: Greenwich University June 2024 By Dr Janet Hargreaves On this 25th year of the UKAHN Colloquium we were lucky to be hosted by the University of Greenwich in the historical Royal Navy College at Greenwich. The sun shone, lunch lovely and the fire alarm was only Read more
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
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
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
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
The committee are pleased to announce that Dr Iain Hutchison of the University of Glasgow has won our 2018 prize with an essay entitled: Experience, memory, and Glasgow’s paediatric nurses, 1926-1948 This interesting and well-presented essay about the lives of the nurses of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow Read more