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12 May 2025
Remembering Win Logan (1926-2025)
In this Blog, Janet looks at the rich and varied career of Win Logan, nurse educator and co-author of 'The Elements of Nursing'.
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7 May 2025
Honouring Nursing History: V E Day, World War Two
In this Blog, Kerry talks about her visit to the British Memorial in Normandy and remembering the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s surrender on 8 May,1945 (V-E Day).
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28 Apr 2025
Do you have a history of nursing HIV-AIDs story to share?
Find out who our HIVStory oral history project interviewers are and where they are based, for our latest History of Nursing Forum project.
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28 Apr 2025
Where's Dianne? RCN Congress 2025
How members can meet the History of Nursing Forum Chair at Congress and find out about what the Forum are involved in.
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23 Apr 2025
History of Orsett Workhouses and Orsett Hospital, Essex
This Blog looks at the history of Orsett Hospital in Essex developed from a workhouse built in 1837 to a 500 bed acute hospital. This blog highlights how many hospitals developed from workhouses and by using Orsett as an example I hope it will inspire readers to research their own local hospital history.
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2 Apr 2025
Asylum Years: Back to the Future? Glimpses of Institutional Life in the 1970s
This Blog looks at the forthcoming book Asylum Years: Back to the Future? Glimpses of Institutional Life in the 1970s, where readers are invited to step back in time and explore a world that has since vanished; the closed ecosystem of mental health institutions in the early 1970s.
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11 Mar 2025
Matron Florence Birkin: one nurse's untold history
The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum Reading, holds the archive of Wallingford and Crowmarsh Joint Isolation Hospital (WCJIH) from its inception in 1899 to 1948. The archive provides a valuable insight into what a nurse’s duties consisted of prior to the establishment of the NHS in 1948. This blog looks at the untold story of Matron Florence Birkin.
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29 Jan 2025
From the Archives: Alice Bird's Atlantic adventure
The RCN archives hold a wealth of artefacts and papers documenting the history of nursing from individual lives to major events. This blog series from the History of Nursing Forum is delving into the collection to share its treasures and to bring the archive to life.
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3 Jan 2025
Nurses in Red - putting nurses back into history
Are you interested in the history of nursing and want to learn more? In this blog we describe our experiences in the History of Nursing Forum 'Nurses in Red' Project. We have a wiki learning event on February 3 2025, 1-3pm.
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11 Dec 2024
From the Archives: Alice Bird - Shaping the profession at Leeds General Infirmary
The RCN archives hold a wealth of artifacts and papers documenting the history of nursing from individual lives to major events. This blog series from the History of Nursing Forum is delving into the collection to share its treasures and to bring the archive to life. This is the second of 3 posts, concerning Alice Bird, a 20th Century nurse, midwife and tutor who worked in Sussex and London during World War 2, before becoming a nurse tutor at Leeds General Infirmary.
