Blog
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5 May 2023
75 years of the NHS - Nursing then and now
This blog reflects on the content of an issue of the Nursing Times from July 1948, days before the NHS was launched. The blog identifies some nursing issues from that year that remain current today e.g. pay, but also highlights areas of positive change within the profession i.e. it is more diverse.
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17 Apr 2023
A nurses' badge and medal led to a PhD
Ill health led to a change in my career, and a new passion in nursing history.
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6 Apr 2023
Tracing Nurses: A revised guide to research family and local history
This blog promotes the latest version of the History of Forum's guide to tracing nurses. It includes a wide variety of sources for people researching family and local history.
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3 Aug 2020
Read all about it: Florence Nightingale at 200
2020 is the year of the nurse and the bi-centenary of Florence Nightingale's birth.
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29 Apr 2020
Queen's Nurse: Sister Louisa Jordan (1878-1915)
Queen's Nurse: Sister Louisa Jordan (1878-1915)
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25 Feb 2020
Read about the most influential nurses of the twentieth-century
Annie Altschul
