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Teresa Doherty
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Head of #Archives & #Records (inc #DigitalArchives) & Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing. From chick to butterfly, finding my peeps
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#HistNursing 💙
debsadelight.bsky.social Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 12h
My latest blog on a TFNS nurse. Millicent was a matron in Malta. Her life was so interesting. coming from the family who owned “Shippham” paste she nursed for 40 years and I have found letters from her on a patient’s file.A Completely forgotten life
#NursingHistory
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February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1881, Herbertine Auclert publishes the first edition of La Citoyenne in Paris, France. The feminist newspaper runs for ten years.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #WomenPublishers 🗃️
Herbertine Auclert sitting at her editor's desk. She is a white woman with dark hair.
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Today's Find: "Twilight Zone" episode "Twenty-Two" 10 Feb 1961 A professional dancer is hospitalized & dreams about a sinister nurse at the morgue. Arlene Martel played the nurse who declared "Room for one more, honey" tinyurl.com/y6w4wvwq #histmed #histnursing
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Today’s Comic: “Myra North, Special Nurse” ran as a daily comic strip in U.S. newspapers from Feb 10, 1936 until March 25, 1939 tinyurl.com/y6tmpynv & tinyurl.com/y22h83re #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory
February 10, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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rcnlibraries.bsky.social
Take some time to explore the RCN Archives. Here's a postcard from the Biley collection, showing a family connecting during difficult circumstances in 1914.

New Infirmary, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 May 1914 - front and back: https://bit.ly/4rcgohp

#ExploreYourArchive
#HistNursing
#EYAConnections
Newcastle Infirmary with green-roofed towers and red-brick walls. Text transcription: We were so pleased to hear Tom has arrived quite safe and that he got the presents through safely. You will have got used to him by this [?] Hope he is quite better. Sorry he had been so ill. You will get quite conversant with English folk and their ways but of course we have to adapt ourselves to the situation we are placed in. Hope you are […] Grandpa and Grandma.”
February 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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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-...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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#histnursing - we are working on our submission 😊
ukahn.bsky.social UK Association for the History of Nursing @ukahn.bsky.social · 2d
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-...
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February 11, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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Apply today for the H-21 Established Scholar Research Grant!

Applications due May 1, 2026.

Find out more information here: aahn.memberclicks.net/research-gra...

#histnursing
February 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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#histnursing
surgeonshall.bsky.social Surgeons' Hall Museums @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 1d
This brass shoulder badge was part of the uniform of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Around 1500 women served with the SWH in France, Russia, Greece, Corsica and Serbia. They cared for soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war in the heart of war zones.
A brass pin badge with the letters SWH on it.
February 12, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Despite recent challenges, our UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage.

Find out more about UK Web Archive recovery in this latest blog post here: link.bl.uk/aaq
The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes
We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.
link.bl.uk
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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#OtD 12 Feb 1970 hundreds of women textile workers at the John Collier factory in Leeds walked out on wildcat strike for pay equality with men. The union denounced the strike, but it spread until the employers agreed pay rises for women and men. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8388...
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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#hustnursing sounds great !
nursinghistory.bsky.social Dr. Wendy Maddocks RN @nursinghistory.bsky.social · 3d
Getting prepped for my presentation at the PHANZA conference in Wellington- incredible line up of speakers & I’m sharing the next data about my WW1 nurses relating to my analysis of death certs of nurses who died early. phanza.org.nz/conference-c... 😁 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Another useful guide from your friends at Buckinghamshire Archives
A meme of 'Is this a document?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be documents based on their content and structure, graded between purist and radical. Each box has a matching image of the contents, including the USS Enterprise, a WAV waveform, the Boarstall Cartulary, and Scrabble.
February 10, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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#HistNursing
debsadelight.bsky.social Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 3d
OMG!
special cigarettes for nurses!
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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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...
Professionalising theatre nursing: Educational reform and institutional change in Norway, 1975–2025 – The UKAHN Bulletin: ISSN 2049-9744
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February 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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2/5/1871 — b. Mary Sewall Gardner, American nursing leader, educator, public health pioneer. Co-founder, Natl Org for Public Health Nursing, president (1913-15). Worldwide classic, “Public Health Nursing”(1916), first U.S. #publichealth text #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #MedSky #HistNursing
Mary Sewell Gardner
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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#histnursing
alexandreklein.bsky.social Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 8d
(Talk) Enough is Enough! The Politics of Health in Cartoons histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/02/les-... #histSTM
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Today's Vintage Book Cover: By the prolific Arlene Hale who wrote numerous medical romances www.fantasticfiction.com/h/arlene-hale/ #histnursing #nursinghistory #histmed #medicalhistory
February 9, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Biography -draft 1, Chapter 8 - Moscow, March 1921, Molly Murphy witnesses the reality of the terrible famine that is unfolding: ‘animals falling exhausted in the streets and white faced haggard children pathetically clutch you as you pass and beg for bread.’

#MollyMurphy #HistNursing #RCN
Molly Murphy: the life of an activist nurse | RCN Magazines | Royal College of Nursing
Suffragette, revolutionary and wartime nurse – discover the extraordinary history of nurse Molly
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February 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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#HistNursing#HistMed #WomensHistory
February 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Our Land tickets with Robert Beckford, Hodge Hill Birmingham 7.30pm 18th March
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Buy tickets – 'Our Land' with Corinne Fowler & Robert Beckford: What has the British countryside got to do with Empire? – Zoom
'Our Land' with Corinne Fowler & Robert Beckford: What has the British countryside got to do with Empire? – Zoom, Wed 18 Mar 2026 - You are welcome to attend this event online (via zoom) or in person,...
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February 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Today's #HistNursing #Badge is #Edinburgh Health Visitor

Many nurses also trained as Health Visitors - an aligned but different role ihv.org.uk/about-us/his...

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See more #RCNArchives badges 👀
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Round Silver and enamel badge. the rim is dark blue with 'City of Edinburgh' in silver, at the bottom is the Scottish flge in blue and white enamel. Underneath on a scroll is 'Health Visitor' silver on blue enamel. The centre of the bage in silver is the Edinburgh coat of arms, in profile. the castle and the motto are in red enamel
February 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Thanks to Warwick Digital Archives, but also the Marxist Internet Archive and the Internet Archive who make amazing historical documents like this available to unaffiliated researchers like me
#MollyMurphy #HistNursing
Papers of Tom Mann
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February 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).

🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a a suited man saying "The student nurse! Workhorse of the N.H.S. strong, reliable -- cheap to run..." Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. A hand holding a pointing stick reaches into this panel and directs the attention at a poster. The hand belongs to the suited man from the previous panel. He says "She is the solution to our over-manning + under-funding problems". The poster depicts a nurse with disposable had, disposable uniform, disposable arm, disposable legs, disposable shoes all labelled. A thermometer labelled compassion scale indicates over 90% compassion. Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a nurse above flames with steam or smoke emanating from her person as her eyes form spirals. The suited man's voice reaches into this frame and says "After 3 years training - working very hard for almost no money - she spontaneously combusts..." Cath Jackson's Nurse Nightshade cartoon strip. Panel shows a the man rubbing his hands in glee. He says "Thus requiring no further employment."
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 7:51 AM