Teresa Doherty
@dohertyta.bsky.social
Head of #Archives & #Records (inc #DigitalArchives) & Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing. From chick to butterfly, finding my peeps
#HistNursing call out for @rcn.org.uk workshop volunteers as part of a forthcoming exbibition on #Migration and #Nursing
📢📢
5 December 2025, 4-5.30pm: In-person at RCN HQ London
14 January 2026, 5.30-6.30pm: Online
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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5 December 2025, 4-5.30pm: In-person at RCN HQ London
14 January 2026, 5.30-6.30pm: Online
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
You’re Invited: Take part in 'Inside Home' a new art installation on migration and nursing | News | Royal College of Nursing
Join a creative workshop and be part of an artwork featured in our upcoming exhibition on the history of migration and nursing.
www.rcn.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#HistNursing call out for @rcn.org.uk workshop volunteers as part of a forthcoming exbibition on #Migration and #Nursing
📢📢
5 December 2025, 4-5.30pm: In-person at RCN HQ London
14 January 2026, 5.30-6.30pm: Online
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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5 December 2025, 4-5.30pm: In-person at RCN HQ London
14 January 2026, 5.30-6.30pm: Online
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Come work with my team in Edinburgh!
If you're interested in a career in #RecordsManagement we're doing very exciting work across the UK @rcn.org.uk
@araukie.bsky.social @irmsociety.bsky.social
careers.rcn.org.uk/Vacancies/Va...
If you're interested in a career in #RecordsManagement we're doing very exciting work across the UK @rcn.org.uk
@araukie.bsky.social @irmsociety.bsky.social
careers.rcn.org.uk/Vacancies/Va...
Graduate Trainee - Records Management | Careers at the RCN | Royal College of Nursing
Records Management Graduate Trainee RCN Scotland (Edinburgh), 35 hours per week, FTC 2 years Imagine being faced with a world of exciting possibilities that
careers.rcn.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Come work with my team in Edinburgh!
If you're interested in a career in #RecordsManagement we're doing very exciting work across the UK @rcn.org.uk
@araukie.bsky.social @irmsociety.bsky.social
careers.rcn.org.uk/Vacancies/Va...
If you're interested in a career in #RecordsManagement we're doing very exciting work across the UK @rcn.org.uk
@araukie.bsky.social @irmsociety.bsky.social
careers.rcn.org.uk/Vacancies/Va...
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🧵 #OTD 12 November 1924 a meeting in a drawing room attended by leading figures in the UK's electrical world was inspired by Mrs Mabel Matthews' idea to form the Electrical Association for Women. The event was commemorated on EAW's 40th anniversary #teatowels in 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🧵 #OTD 12 November 1924 a meeting in a drawing room attended by leading figures in the UK's electrical world was inspired by Mrs Mabel Matthews' idea to form the Electrical Association for Women. The event was commemorated on EAW's 40th anniversary #teatowels in 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...
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11/12/1606 — b. Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, settler, administrator. A settler of New France (1642), co-founder of Montréal. The first practicing lay nurse in North America; founder and administrator of the first hospital in Montréal (1645) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #MedSky
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
11/12/1606 — b. Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, settler, administrator. A settler of New France (1642), co-founder of Montréal. The first practicing lay nurse in North America; founder and administrator of the first hospital in Montréal (1645) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #MedSky
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'Tickets going fast' says Eventbrite (no idea how true it is whenever they say that).
Here are the two asylums that John Clare spent time in: 1) Fairmead House at High Beach nr Epping; and 2) Northampton General/St Andrew's (opened in 1838)
Here are the two asylums that John Clare spent time in: 1) Fairmead House at High Beach nr Epping; and 2) Northampton General/St Andrew's (opened in 1838)
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
'Tickets going fast' says Eventbrite (no idea how true it is whenever they say that).
Here are the two asylums that John Clare spent time in: 1) Fairmead House at High Beach nr Epping; and 2) Northampton General/St Andrew's (opened in 1838)
Here are the two asylums that John Clare spent time in: 1) Fairmead House at High Beach nr Epping; and 2) Northampton General/St Andrew's (opened in 1838)
A truly great library, if you're not local enough to buy a ticket give them a fiver anyway womenslibrary.org.uk/how-to-get-i...
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A truly great library, if you're not local enough to buy a ticket give them a fiver anyway womenslibrary.org.uk/how-to-get-i...
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Explore report writing with the Royal Literary Fund. Sharpen your storytelling and editing skills in our upcoming workshop.
📆 20 November, 10am - 12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Booking link: https://bit.ly/4ngqOK4
📆 20 November, 10am - 12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Booking link: https://bit.ly/4ngqOK4
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Explore report writing with the Royal Literary Fund. Sharpen your storytelling and editing skills in our upcoming workshop.
📆 20 November, 10am - 12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Booking link: https://bit.ly/4ngqOK4
📆 20 November, 10am - 12pm
💻 Online
🔗 Booking link: https://bit.ly/4ngqOK4
This week's #NursesInRed #Wikipedia entry is a poignant one
#LestWeForget the Nurses Chapel in Westminster Abbey was opened in 1950 honouring the nurses, midwives & auxiliaries;
with a roll of honour for #WW2 deceased
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nur...
#LestWeForget the Nurses Chapel in Westminster Abbey was opened in 1950 honouring the nurses, midwives & auxiliaries;
with a roll of honour for #WW2 deceased
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nur...
The Nurses' Chapel - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This week's #NursesInRed #Wikipedia entry is a poignant one
#LestWeForget the Nurses Chapel in Westminster Abbey was opened in 1950 honouring the nurses, midwives & auxiliaries;
with a roll of honour for #WW2 deceased
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nur...
#LestWeForget the Nurses Chapel in Westminster Abbey was opened in 1950 honouring the nurses, midwives & auxiliaries;
with a roll of honour for #WW2 deceased
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nur...
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The first British nurses union was modelled on the Irish nurses union
The Professional Union of Trained Nurses
Maude MacCallum
(later COHSE)
@dohertyta.bsky.social
The Professional Union of Trained Nurses
Maude MacCallum
(later COHSE)
@dohertyta.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#HistNursing #LestWeForget New blog Remembering nurses awarded the Royal Red Cross in #WW2
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#HistNursing #LestWeForget New blog Remembering nurses awarded the Royal Red Cross in #WW2
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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#LestWeForget
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
Service Scrapbooks: Nursing and Storytelling in the First World War | Royal College of Nursing
These are the stories of ten nursing staff who worked in the First World War. Each one of them left behind a scrapbook of their experiences.
www.rcn.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#LestWeForget
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
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Congratulations to @ckskm.bsky.social on her appointment as the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments and the first woman to hold this post, the CEO of @houseoflords.parliament.uk ! www.parliament.uk/business/new...
Chloe Mawson appointed 66th Clerk of the Parliaments
Chloe Mawson has been appointed the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments and is the first woman to take up the post. Read more
www.parliament.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congratulations to @ckskm.bsky.social on her appointment as the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments and the first woman to hold this post, the CEO of @houseoflords.parliament.uk ! www.parliament.uk/business/new...
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If you’re around, I’ll be talking at the Highgate Lit & Sci on Monday (17th) 2pm, about my latest book. The Undesirables tells the story of the lives impacted by a terrible piece of UK legislation (which operated for 46 years)
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re around, I’ll be talking at the Highgate Lit & Sci on Monday (17th) 2pm, about my latest book. The Undesirables tells the story of the lives impacted by a terrible piece of UK legislation (which operated for 46 years)
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
#LestWeForget
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
Service Scrapbooks: Nursing and Storytelling in the First World War | Royal College of Nursing
These are the stories of ten nursing staff who worked in the First World War. Each one of them left behind a scrapbook of their experiences.
www.rcn.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#LestWeForget
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
Reading in #Remembrance, make time for quiet reflection
Look at our online Service Scrap Books of nine nurses and one VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) from the First World War.
You can read their stories, in their own words, as they experienced it.
www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrap...
This links to a really interesting short article with amazing pictures - district nursing children's health clinic in a handy train💙!
#HistNursing #Australia
#HistNursing #Australia
railwaysquare.tripod.com/far-west/tex...
The Far West Baby Health Clinic Cars
Railway clinics
Rural New South Wales
The Far West Baby Health Clinic Cars
Railway clinics
Rural New South Wales
Far West Children's Health Scheme carriages
Notes on the Far West Children's Health Scheme carriages
railwaysquare.tripod.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This links to a really interesting short article with amazing pictures - district nursing children's health clinic in a handy train💙!
#HistNursing #Australia
#HistNursing #Australia
Today's #HistNursing #Badge is #Cane Hill Hospital Coulsdon. Previously the Asylum, was renamed 1930.
Motto Aversos Compono Animos = I Bring Relief to Troubled Minds
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
@womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀
rcn.access.preservica.com/archive
Motto Aversos Compono Animos = I Bring Relief to Troubled Minds
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
@womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀
rcn.access.preservica.com/archive
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Today's #HistNursing #Badge is #Cane Hill Hospital Coulsdon. Previously the Asylum, was renamed 1930.
Motto Aversos Compono Animos = I Bring Relief to Troubled Minds
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
@womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀
rcn.access.preservica.com/archive
Motto Aversos Compono Animos = I Bring Relief to Troubled Minds
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
@womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀
rcn.access.preservica.com/archive
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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Today’s Find: “Secrets of a Nurse” 1938 film based on the magazine story “Westside Miracle” by Quentin Reynolds tinyurl.com/yxfhwvds #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Today’s Find: “Secrets of a Nurse” 1938 film based on the magazine story “Westside Miracle” by Quentin Reynolds tinyurl.com/yxfhwvds #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm
Reposted by Teresa Doherty
In our recent Broadmoor and Beyond talk, historians Jade Shepherd and Chris Hart explored the history of high security hospitals, from Broadmoor to modern secure units.
🎥Watch the recording of the event on YouTube, where all our recorded events are published: https://bit.ly/47Fw1p3
#HistNursing
🎥Watch the recording of the event on YouTube, where all our recorded events are published: https://bit.ly/47Fw1p3
#HistNursing
Broadmoor and Beyond: The history of high security hospitals
YouTube video by RCN
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
In our recent Broadmoor and Beyond talk, historians Jade Shepherd and Chris Hart explored the history of high security hospitals, from Broadmoor to modern secure units.
🎥Watch the recording of the event on YouTube, where all our recorded events are published: https://bit.ly/47Fw1p3
#HistNursing
🎥Watch the recording of the event on YouTube, where all our recorded events are published: https://bit.ly/47Fw1p3
#HistNursing
Reposted by Teresa Doherty
Look out for this later #histSTM
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Look out for this later #histSTM
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
Reposted by Teresa Doherty
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
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Job klaxon 📢: fancy managing a busy University archives service? Now's your chance: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections (42364-1025) - University of Warwick
Title: MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections (42364-1025). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Job klaxon 📢: fancy managing a busy University archives service? Now's your chance: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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#OTD 1918 Remembering Sister Jessie McRobbie #histnurisng
Sister Jessie McRobbie died #OTD in 1918 and was buried in Crieff cemetery on Armistice Day, with a service being conducted by Rev Andrew Campbell. His thoughts are below - from his book, ’Crieff in the Great War’. We’ve been unable to find a photo of Jessie.
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#OTD 1918 Remembering Sister Jessie McRobbie #histnurisng