Nach fast drei Jahren Arbeit ist endlich mein neuer Sammelband zur Geschichte der Pflege im Nationalsozialismus erschienen. 🎉 #histmed #histnursing

Today's Find: Nurses' uniform patterns from Butterick 1980's. Ebenezer Butterick founded the company in the 1860's in NYC; in 2001 it was acquired by McCall Pattern Company tinyurl.com/dzc9vnyc #histmed #histnursing

#OTD 1952 three trains crashed at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Middlesex. 112 people were killed and 340 injured. It remains the worst peacetime rail accident in British history. But I want to talk about Lt Abbie Sweetwine USAF
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A group of student nurses at St James' Hospital, Balham, 1987 #BlackHistoryMonth #HistNursing

Excited to be at the Penn_Bateshx as a Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Research Fellow for the next three weeks! #histnursing

Letter to Matron in Chief Hester Maclean #NZANS jan 1919 about some of the returning nurses from service - sister Martin was clearly unwell but ‘had husband to look after her’. Files at National Archives Wellington #HistNursing

With Remembrance Day coming up, here are some medals awarded to nurses for service in the two world wars.
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Today’s Find: Virginia Leith played a nurse in the 1953 film “Violent Saturday”; she also starred in the 1962 classic, “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die” tinyurl.com/yeaa5xsb& tinyurl.com/ye29ek55 #histmed #histnursing

January blues from a 1942 nurse's diary: 'Feel am doing my duty to my country by doing a job I hate at a place I loathe and detest.'
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For today's #ExploreYourArchive theme #EYASmall , here are some of the badges that we hold in our collection - featuring both local and national healthcare organisations.
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'Somewhere in Belgium 1917.'
Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps, presumably post-run of night shifts, but pre-McDonald's breakfast.
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One of my Nurses chapel museum committee peers has put together this amazing resource in the chapel & it’s already been a hit as people come in to get the basics of their family member. The next committee project is WW2 nurses - a bit harder as not digitised #HistNursing

The General Nursing Council examination in 1939 reflects the concerns of the day, including references to the Irish Free State, Palestine and the dictator of Italy

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Find yourself someone who looks at you like these nursing students look at this skeleton 🥰

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Some photographs of Christmas on the maternity ward at Hyde Park Corner, 1949

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Despite developing a disability due to osteomyelitis in her childhood, nurse Agnes Hunt transformed care for disabled people by setting up the first open-air hospital for disabled people and a college for them to gain employment and independence
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I’m conscious I’ve not been posting much #HistNursing lately but day job is 110% consuming right now & focussing on my research analysis after hours so not much time to find quirky things to post. Here’s pic of me &mate night shift Royal Free ITU 1990- I had the keys!(to drugs)

For what will probably be the last postcard of the year, a #HistNursing belter.
A Staff Nurse of the TFNS, published by Miller and Lang, I believe part of a series. Posted to West Hendon in 1915. Absolutely stunning.
RCN History of Nursing Forum Qaranc Teresa Doherty 🐦 #PostedInThePast | Helen Baggott