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 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 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 Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…