Chris Holme
@historycompany.bsky.social
Journalist/historian. Medical and nursing history
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As it's #InternationalMensDay this #HistNursing article on men who were amongst the early registered #nurses is well worth a 5 minute read
Time for #TeaUp 🫖📖
www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/Hi...
Time for #TeaUp 🫖📖
www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/Hi...
The first male nurses | Nursing History Now | Royal College of Nursing
Who were the first men on the general nursing register? Dr Stuart Wildman, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, finds out
www.rcn.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
As it's #InternationalMensDay this #HistNursing article on men who were amongst the early registered #nurses is well worth a 5 minute read
Time for #TeaUp 🫖📖
www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/Hi...
Time for #TeaUp 🫖📖
www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/Hi...
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Farm labourers, Ireland, c.1857, attributed to Augusta Crofton, pioneering photographer from Roscommon.
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Farm labourers, Ireland, c.1857, attributed to Augusta Crofton, pioneering photographer from Roscommon.
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1/2 OTD 1940 Grove Park Hospital was hit by a high explosive bomb and the action of 2 nurses on duty, Aileen Turner and Mary Fleming, saved the lives of many patients. Both were awarded the George Cross. The citation recorded they “climbed through a first floor window …
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Sports subs the Scottish Sun in brilliant form
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sports subs the Scottish Sun in brilliant form
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Scottish GENES Webinar, Remembrance Day, 7pm (UK) Tues 11 Nov 2025: "Trapped in Brussels in the First World War: A Civilian Story", with Chris Paton. £10 via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The story of how my grandfather's Scottish family remained in Belgium in WW1, and the tragic consequences.
The story of how my grandfather's Scottish family remained in Belgium in WW1, and the tragic consequences.
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Scottish GENES Webinar, Remembrance Day, 7pm (UK) Tues 11 Nov 2025: "Trapped in Brussels in the First World War: A Civilian Story", with Chris Paton. £10 via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The story of how my grandfather's Scottish family remained in Belgium in WW1, and the tragic consequences.
The story of how my grandfather's Scottish family remained in Belgium in WW1, and the tragic consequences.
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Our latest report charts the decline in the number of district nurses, down 43% since 2009 📉
It also places the decline in the context of government ambitions to shift more care out of hospital and into the community, where district nurses play a key role.
Read the report: buff.ly/gezemDJ (2/2)
It also places the decline in the context of government ambitions to shift more care out of hospital and into the community, where district nurses play a key role.
Read the report: buff.ly/gezemDJ (2/2)
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our latest report charts the decline in the number of district nurses, down 43% since 2009 📉
It also places the decline in the context of government ambitions to shift more care out of hospital and into the community, where district nurses play a key role.
Read the report: buff.ly/gezemDJ (2/2)
It also places the decline in the context of government ambitions to shift more care out of hospital and into the community, where district nurses play a key role.
Read the report: buff.ly/gezemDJ (2/2)
Are you a journalist working in or from Wales? Brilliant opportunity for a new #RISJ fellowship in Oxford #cymru #journalism inclusivejournalism.cymru/blog/announc...
Announcing the Cynefin Fellowship - Inclusive Journalism Cymru
Announcing our new Cynefin Fellowship in partnership with the Reuters Institute at Oxford University
inclusivejournalism.cymru
September 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Are you a journalist working in or from Wales? Brilliant opportunity for a new #RISJ fellowship in Oxford #cymru #journalism inclusivejournalism.cymru/blog/announc...
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If you're in #Edinburgh for #EdFringe you may want to squeeze in a visit to @rcn.org.uk Scotland for their #HistNursing exhibition on #ClimateChange #Sustainability
You Mean the World, Nursing in a climate crisis
www.rcn.org.uk/scotland/Sup...
You Mean the World, Nursing in a climate crisis
www.rcn.org.uk/scotland/Sup...
August 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you're in #Edinburgh for #EdFringe you may want to squeeze in a visit to @rcn.org.uk Scotland for their #HistNursing exhibition on #ClimateChange #Sustainability
You Mean the World, Nursing in a climate crisis
www.rcn.org.uk/scotland/Sup...
You Mean the World, Nursing in a climate crisis
www.rcn.org.uk/scotland/Sup...
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We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Ahead of Diageo’s full-year results tomorrow, I charted the tumultuous reign of the Soho-based group’s former CEO Debra Crew, who was ousted on 16 July, and ask where now for the the world’s third-largest alcoholic beverages group?
www.whiskyinvestdirect.com/whisky-news/...
www.whiskyinvestdirect.com/whisky-news/...
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Ahead of Diageo’s full-year results tomorrow, I charted the tumultuous reign of the Soho-based group’s former CEO Debra Crew, who was ousted on 16 July, and ask where now for the the world’s third-largest alcoholic beverages group?
www.whiskyinvestdirect.com/whisky-news/...
www.whiskyinvestdirect.com/whisky-news/...
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Exactly one hundred years ago - EJ MacRae was appointed Edinburgh's City Architect - Here is a short piece on the work of MacRae and his team.
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/07/eben...
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/07/eben...
Ebenezer James MacRae: the man who transformed Edinburgh - Historic Environment Scotland Blog
Ebenezer MacRae’s was appointed as Edinburgh’s City Architect 100 years ago. So who was the man who transformed Edinburgh?
blog.historicenvironment.scot
July 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Exactly one hundred years ago - EJ MacRae was appointed Edinburgh's City Architect - Here is a short piece on the work of MacRae and his team.
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/07/eben...
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/07/eben...
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190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
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Putting aside the facts that the "mega battleship" is clearly an aircraft carrier and that it is sailing *up* and not "down" the Forth, let us take this opportune moment to remind ourselves of the time an actual battlecruiser went up the Forth and almost took the bridge out.
True story! 🧵🌉🛳️▶️
True story! 🧵🌉🛳️▶️
July 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Putting aside the facts that the "mega battleship" is clearly an aircraft carrier and that it is sailing *up* and not "down" the Forth, let us take this opportune moment to remind ourselves of the time an actual battlecruiser went up the Forth and almost took the bridge out.
True story! 🧵🌉🛳️▶️
True story! 🧵🌉🛳️▶️
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Simply put, if we cannot find TB, we cannot treat TB. And if we cannot treat TB, we cannot end TB
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis - Nature Microbiology
Diagnosis is the weakest aspect of tuberculosis (TB) care and control. We describe seven critical transitions that can close the massive TB diagnostic gap and enable TB programmes worldwide to recover...
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July 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Simply put, if we cannot find TB, we cannot treat TB. And if we cannot treat TB, we cannot end TB
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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'I hope you are keeping up your Shorthand. How did you enjoy the holiday at Gorleston on Sea.’ Official Sir Isaac Pitman postcard, sent 1904. #PitmanShorthand
July 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'I hope you are keeping up your Shorthand. How did you enjoy the holiday at Gorleston on Sea.’ Official Sir Isaac Pitman postcard, sent 1904. #PitmanShorthand
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Dr Clare McNaught has been elected as the new President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Dr McNaught will become the College's first ever female President in the College's 520-year history, and will succeed Professor Rowan Parks.
Read more: https://bit.ly/44kf55F
Dr McNaught will become the College's first ever female President in the College's 520-year history, and will succeed Professor Rowan Parks.
Read more: https://bit.ly/44kf55F
June 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Dr Clare McNaught has been elected as the new President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Dr McNaught will become the College's first ever female President in the College's 520-year history, and will succeed Professor Rowan Parks.
Read more: https://bit.ly/44kf55F
Dr McNaught will become the College's first ever female President in the College's 520-year history, and will succeed Professor Rowan Parks.
Read more: https://bit.ly/44kf55F
And such a lovely man. Here he is in great form with @jimalkhalili www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
June 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
And such a lovely man. Here he is in great form with @jimalkhalili www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
June 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.
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From 'Breathe through your nose' to 'Care for your feet', a cast of largely unimpressed London infants spreading the municipal health message in 1938
More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
From 'Breathe through your nose' to 'Care for your feet', a cast of largely unimpressed London infants spreading the municipal health message in 1938
More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
If it all seems a bit crap right now .... listening to David Nyhan should help pick you up #journalism #studentrejectionletter : historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...
May 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If it all seems a bit crap right now .... listening to David Nyhan should help pick you up #journalism #studentrejectionletter : historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...
Look forward to reading it, Lindsey! You'll know about what Bell did for nurses. Here's my take on his contribution to Queen's Nursing:
www.qnis.org.uk/history/sett...
www.qnis.org.uk/history/sett...
My next book SLEUTH-HOUND will be about Joseph Bell, the Scottish doctor who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes, and the milieu of medicine, mystery, and crime that surrounded him.
I'm in the process of finishing the manuscript. It will be released in 2026!
I'm in the process of finishing the manuscript. It will be released in 2026!
Apparently it's Sherlock Holmes day so of course we have to share the real Sherlock, Edinburgh surgeon and RCSEd President, Joseph Bell! Here he is with some letters from his former pupil, Arthur Conan Doyle that confirm Bell as inspiration for Doyle's literary detective.
May 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Look forward to reading it, Lindsey! You'll know about what Bell did for nurses. Here's my take on his contribution to Queen's Nursing:
www.qnis.org.uk/history/sett...
www.qnis.org.uk/history/sett...
2/2 I loved this quote from midwifery pioneer Johanna Hedén: “If I had instead been a teacher at a primary school worked in a nursery or in an asylum for the insane, then I wouldn’t have been ostracized like a scabby sheep.”
May 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
2/2 I loved this quote from midwifery pioneer Johanna Hedén: “If I had instead been a teacher at a primary school worked in a nursery or in an asylum for the insane, then I wouldn’t have been ostracized like a scabby sheep.”
1/2 If you're in Gothenburg and have an interest in #histmed and #histnursing, the medical history museum is well woth a visit. Takes about 90 mins to get round and loads of fascinating material www.goteborg.com/en/places/th...
May 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
1/2 If you're in Gothenburg and have an interest in #histmed and #histnursing, the medical history museum is well woth a visit. Takes about 90 mins to get round and loads of fascinating material www.goteborg.com/en/places/th...
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Perfect day to get some heliotherapy (sunbathing as a therapeutic measure) just like these tuberculosis patients at Mearnskirk Hospital c.1930 🌞
May 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Perfect day to get some heliotherapy (sunbathing as a therapeutic measure) just like these tuberculosis patients at Mearnskirk Hospital c.1930 🌞
Didn't get the college place you wanted? David Nyhan's column was so brilliant the @bostonglobe.com reprinted it every year historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...
An inspiring antidote to student rejection
Thousands of British teenagers will get bad news this month. The late David Nyhan wrote this column for the Boston Globe in 1987. It was intended for American high school students but its appeal is…
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May 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Didn't get the college place you wanted? David Nyhan's column was so brilliant the @bostonglobe.com reprinted it every year historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...