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…
This large and imposing building, situated opposite the Art Gallery and the University of Salford, has housed the Working Class Movement Library, since 1987. The library contains material documenting the history of the political, industrial, social and cultural institutions of the working classes. However, the building itself is of relevance Read more…
In November 2017 I travelled to Stuttgart at the invitation of the Robert Bosch Institute to take part in a workshop entitled: “Marketplace, Power, Prestige: The Healthcare Professions’ Struggle for Recognition”. The basis of the workshop was interprofessional working and colleagues from around Europe and beyond participated. I flew into Read more…
‘No Man’s Land’ is a touring exhibition of women’s photography and the First World War. The photographs include perspectives from women who were ambulance drivers, nurses, official photographers, as well as more contemporary artists. This exhibition is relevant to people from many walks of life, not just those with an Read more…
Chris Hallet and Keith Brindle On 5th July 1917 we held a conference for Year Nine school students (aged 14 AND 15) at the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds. The event was the culmination of about a years’ work. We gave the students a teaching pack to orientate them to Read more…
In St Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries, where the poet Robert Burns is buried, another monument marks the burial place of over 420 people, who died from Asiatic Cholera, between September and November 1832. Cholera originated in India and first entered Britain in October 1831. Further epidemics occurred in 1848 and 1854. Read more…
Today, it is difficult to imagine that this ‘Bar-Grill-Pub’ on Broad Street, Birmingham, today the hub of the city’s nightlife, was once described as ‘one of the very best sites that could possibly be selected within the Borough of Birmingham for the purpose of a Children’s Hospital’ (Reinarz, 2009, 79). Read more…