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Today's #HistNursing #Badge is the Civil Nursing Reserve est 1938 it was part of the Air Raid Precautions services in WW2

CNR had trained nurses in hospitals & first aid posts, wkg with nursing assistants.

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She won a landmark discrimination case in Canada. An exhibit and play honour her legacy | CBC News Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse from Barbados, took a Montreal hotel giant to court in the 60s and won. It was the first Canadian case where an institution was found guilty of job discrimination based on...

Registered Nurse Gloria Baylis Won a Landmark Discrimination Case in Canada | A new exhibit and play celebrates the civil rights pioneer legacy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Canadian #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #NurseSky #HistNursing #woc #civilrights

Starting on Wednesday at 8pm on Channel 5, watch Our Hospital Through Time. Tune in to see us showing @profaliceroberts.bsky.social our collection items and discussing the history of St Bartholomew's Hospital

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Ethel Gordon Fenwick memorial plus excellent question in blog #histnursing Did the Nurses Registration Act 1919 achieve its aim of public protection ?

#histnursing provides a lens to understand recent events and think about future ones - Katherine Roberts provides a great example in this paper 'Becoming Family: A Comparison of Nurses’ Provision of Emotional Support during both COVID-19 and the Second World War' bulletin.ukahn.org/becoming-fam...

Have you submitted your abstract to present at in London at our June 1st #Colloquium2026. Call open and closing on March 2nd. Please share widely #histnursing #histmed More info on the website . ukahn.org/colloquium-2... plus registration now open here store.kingston.ac.uk/conferences-...

#histnursing #activistnurses 'why deny nurses a decent living?'

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#histnursing 'nurses have a hard struggle to make ends meet' Iris Brook

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Agnes Maclean wife of the famous Scottish Revolutionary John MacLean

BSP journal "The Call" 13th June 1918 states
"Maclean was married in 1909 to Miss Agnes Wood a socialist nurse"
Born: Ayton July 28, 1879, moved to Swansea and then Hawick
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One not to miss ! #histnursing #histmed #womenshistory

What a #OTD to celebrate ! Seems a good day to share this interesting #histnursing paper from our latest bulletin ‘Deeds Not Words’: the nurse suffragettes arrested between 1906-1914 ' by Vari Drennan bulletin.ukahn.org/deeds-not-wo...

#histnursing volunteer opportunity with the National Archive

Interested in the history of theatre nursing ? Here is a fascinating article from Norway #histnursing Professionalising theatre nursing: Educational reform and institutional change in Norway, 1975–2025 by Jan-Thore Lockertsen bulletin.ukahn.org/professional...

Marian Bannister (1879 – 1970) Marian Bannister was born in Beeston and trained as a nurse in Nottingham and Sheffield. Jill Oakland, who has researched Bannister’s life, outlines her career which spans two World Wars and the ho…

Remember Marian Bannister was awarded a Red Cross Medal for her service in World War I.
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Glad to hear the writing is going well - looking forward to reading Molly's biography !

delighted to have been gifted the Victory medal of Clarissa Bedwell who was a member of the Queen Alexandra (QAIMNS). I found her nursing career lasted far longer than the years of the conflict-44 years in fact!
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Dita H. Kinney seated

2/2/1901 — The United States Female Army Nurse Corps is established by Congress as a permanent corp within the U.S. Army Medical Dept. When launched in March 1901, Dita H. Kinney is named the first superintendent(1901-09) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed #BusrseSky #HistNursing #military

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Enough is Enough! The Politics of Health in Cartoons| Event | Royal College of Nursing Join this talk on the history of nursing cartoons, from documenting nursing training in 1900 to political campaigns of the 1980s.

@rcnlibraries.bsky.social #histnursing in-person event London RCN on 18 February, featuring Radical Nurse Group cartoonist Cath Jackson: www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

#histnursing online launch of exhibition on history and current issues in prison nursing - do join it !

#HistNursing find out more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dita_Ho...