Previous events

In May 2018 we had the pleasure of hosting the book launch of The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson.

In this interview Christie talks about the inspirations for her book, what nursing means to her and takes a look round the RCN Library and Heritage Centre.

The film was made by the book's publisher Vintage, Penguin Random House. The Language of Kindness is available to buy now.

Annual History of Nursing Society lecture    March 2018

For this annual lecture, Professor Joanna Bourke spoke about her research into the history of sexual violence. 

In this short interview clip, she gives us an introduction to this research and talks about the history of the nursing role in caring for victims of rape.

LGBT history and mental health nursing      

For LGBT History Month in 2016, and as part of our mental health nursing seminar series, Tommy Dickinson spoke about the men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism. 

In this interview he talks about his research and the experiences of the nurses who supported this practice.

Nurse and spoken word artist Molly Case commemorates First World War nurses.

Molly's poem is inspired by the First World War nursing scrapbooks held in the RCN archive. You can now browse these scrapbooks online, thanks to our HLF funded Service Scrapbooks project.  

This film was made at the Imperial War Museum, London, as part of their #WomensWork100 project.

In 2017 we launched our exhibitions and events series celebrating diversity in nursing.

As part of that series Deaf poet Richard D France came to the RCN to tell people about his experiences of being a Deaf person in the mental health system.

Richard is introduced here by Deaf Advisor Herbert Klein. This event was in BSL with live subtitles.