UK Association for the History of Nursing
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The UK Association for the History of Nursing (UKAHN) promotes the development and advancement of #histnursing through scholarly work and outreach. https://ukahn.org/ Find our yearly journal at https://bulletin.ukahn.org/
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Vol 12 (1) 2024 – The UKAHN Bulletin: ISSN 2049-9744
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UKAHN's annual publication, the Bulletin, is now available. Thank you to @alannahtomkins.bsky.social, our editor, and to @ww1nursehistorian.bsky.social, our web editor, for creating another wonderful journal featuring the history of nursing. #histnursing bulletin.ukahn.org/vol-12-1-2024/
#histnursing call for papers from graduate students and ealry career researchers
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
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2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
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#envhist #histmed #histnursing
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) invites submissions for a virtual conference on space, place, and patients from senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and early c...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:20 AM
#histnursing call for papers from graduate students and ealry career researchers
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📆 On 22 January join the Radical Nurses Group (RNG) for their event: A History of Activism.
The RNG have been fighting for better conditions for nursing staff and patients for over four decades – if you’re interested in the history of nursing activism this free online event is not to be missed.
The RNG have been fighting for better conditions for nursing staff and patients for over four decades – if you’re interested in the history of nursing activism this free online event is not to be missed.
A History of Activism: the Radical Nurses Group | Royal College of Nursing
Join us for an online talk exploring the The Radical Nurses Group's activism work.
www.rcn.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
📆 On 22 January join the Radical Nurses Group (RNG) for their event: A History of Activism.
The RNG have been fighting for better conditions for nursing staff and patients for over four decades – if you’re interested in the history of nursing activism this free online event is not to be missed.
The RNG have been fighting for better conditions for nursing staff and patients for over four decades – if you’re interested in the history of nursing activism this free online event is not to be missed.
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Meet Marget Husband RRC (1887-1986) 💙
Born in #Fife a farmer's daughter
Trained in #Edinburgh & #Aberdeen
Worked in #Cardiff ##Newport
Became #Matron #Glasgow Royal Infirmary
#RCN Council Member
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marget_...
Born in #Fife a farmer's daughter
Trained in #Edinburgh & #Aberdeen
Worked in #Cardiff ##Newport
Became #Matron #Glasgow Royal Infirmary
#RCN Council Member
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
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Marget Husband - Wikipedia
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January 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Meet Marget Husband RRC (1887-1986) 💙
Born in #Fife a farmer's daughter
Trained in #Edinburgh & #Aberdeen
Worked in #Cardiff ##Newport
Became #Matron #Glasgow Royal Infirmary
#RCN Council Member
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marget_...
Born in #Fife a farmer's daughter
Trained in #Edinburgh & #Aberdeen
Worked in #Cardiff ##Newport
Became #Matron #Glasgow Royal Infirmary
#RCN Council Member
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
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Join us for our February 25th Teaching History Webinar!
"A Necessary Integration: Engaging Students with Nursing History Grounds Their Understanding of Nursing Ethics"
Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, FRSA
Register: aahn.memberclicks.net/teaching-nur...
#histnursing #aacnessentials
"A Necessary Integration: Engaging Students with Nursing History Grounds Their Understanding of Nursing Ethics"
Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, FRSA
Register: aahn.memberclicks.net/teaching-nur...
#histnursing #aacnessentials
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Join us for our February 25th Teaching History Webinar!
"A Necessary Integration: Engaging Students with Nursing History Grounds Their Understanding of Nursing Ethics"
Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, FRSA
Register: aahn.memberclicks.net/teaching-nur...
#histnursing #aacnessentials
"A Necessary Integration: Engaging Students with Nursing History Grounds Their Understanding of Nursing Ethics"
Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, FRSA
Register: aahn.memberclicks.net/teaching-nur...
#histnursing #aacnessentials
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Are you a graduate student or an early-career researcher? Submit your abstract today for "Space, Place, and Patients" the 2nd Annual AAHN Graduate Student and Early Career Researcher Virtual Conference! Abstracts due January 23, 2026.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
What a collection ! #histnursing #histnursing
Did you know our nursing history collection holds nearly 5,000 pamphlets - many over 100 years old?
We are working to make them easier to access for members and researchers by:
🔍 Improving search records
📜 Checking each pamphlet’s condition
📷 Identifying digitisation opportunities
#HistNursing
We are working to make them easier to access for members and researchers by:
🔍 Improving search records
📜 Checking each pamphlet’s condition
📷 Identifying digitisation opportunities
#HistNursing
January 15, 2026 at 9:10 AM
What a collection ! #histnursing #histnursing
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Thanks for sharing … the RCN History of Nursing Forum runs a group #nursesinred to try to address this issue . We too find meeting the notability criteria for many influential nurses of the past challenging #histnursing @dohertyta.bsky.social @rcnlibraries.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk
Illuminating piece on the ‘discoverability gap’: “Women make up only 20% of the biographies found on Wikipedia English.”
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Where Are All the Women? Notability and Digital Discovery
Rebecca Northen was called the 'Julia Child of Orchids,' yet her story is hard to find online. Discover why women disappear from digital history and what can be done to change it.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Thanks for sharing … the RCN History of Nursing Forum runs a group #nursesinred to try to address this issue . We too find meeting the notability criteria for many influential nurses of the past challenging #histnursing @dohertyta.bsky.social @rcnlibraries.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk
Interested in the history of nurse activism in the UK ? #histnursing #womenshistory #histmed online event open to all . Please share widely
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve... online event open to all one not to miss about activism in nursing in the uk #histnursing @rcnlibraries.bsky.social #histmed
A History of Activism: the Radical Nurses Group | Royal College of Nursing
Join us for an online talk exploring the The Radical Nurses Group's activism work.
www.rcn.org.uk
January 14, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Interested in the history of nurse activism in the UK ? #histnursing #womenshistory #histmed online event open to all . Please share widely
#histnursing good to check out ! #histmed
Check out my article, 'Becoming Family', on the parallels present in nursing care during the COVID pandemic and the Second World War. Lord knows, this article was a long time in coming 😮💨
UKAHN's annual publication, the Bulletin, is now available. Thank you to @alannahtomkins.bsky.social, our editor, and to @ww1nursehistorian.bsky.social, our web editor, for creating another wonderful journal featuring the history of nursing. #histnursing bulletin.ukahn.org/vol-12-1-2024/
January 14, 2026 at 12:17 PM
#histnursing good to check out ! #histmed
Just in case you missed our call for papers for our 1st June 2026 Colloquium in London #histnursing #histmed
#Colloquium2026 #CallForPapers is now open and closes on the 2nd of March. Please visit the website for more information. #histnursing ukahn.org/colloquium-2...
Colloquium 2026 – UK Association for the History of Nursing
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January 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Just in case you missed our call for papers for our 1st June 2026 Colloquium in London #histnursing #histmed
Looks a great day ....#womenshistory
Beginning a year of celebrating The Women's Library first 100 years! @fotwl.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @ifrwh.bsky.social @ihrwomen.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @catholicrs.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Looks a great day ....#womenshistory
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"What kinds of histories and stories might be useful for radical social movements and political struggles today, to overcome the enormous challenges that we face?"
Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.
Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.
Radical Synergies
Three of our past and present editors reflect on the ways in which History Workshop Journal has influenced and inspired their practice during their time on the History Workshop collective.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
"What kinds of histories and stories might be useful for radical social movements and political struggles today, to overcome the enormous challenges that we face?"
Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.
Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.
Oops- forgot the tags #histnursing #histmed
Looking for insights into early twentieth century treatment of syphilis and gonorrhoea ? Here is a fascinating read Sex and sisterhood: the nurse’s role in treating sexually transmitted diseases 1917-20 bulletin.ukahn.org/sex-and-sist...
Sex and sisterhood: the nurse’s role in treating sexually transmitted diseases 1917-20 – The UKAHN Bulletin: ISSN 2049-9744
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January 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Oops- forgot the tags #histnursing #histmed
Looking for insights into early twentieth century treatment of syphilis and gonorrhoea ? Here is a fascinating read Sex and sisterhood: the nurse’s role in treating sexually transmitted diseases 1917-20 bulletin.ukahn.org/sex-and-sist...
Sex and sisterhood: the nurse’s role in treating sexually transmitted diseases 1917-20 – The UKAHN Bulletin: ISSN 2049-9744
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January 14, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Looking for insights into early twentieth century treatment of syphilis and gonorrhoea ? Here is a fascinating read Sex and sisterhood: the nurse’s role in treating sexually transmitted diseases 1917-20 bulletin.ukahn.org/sex-and-sist...
Just a reminder that nursing was, and is, a hazardous occupation . Nurse Dorothy Adams' memorial in the Middlesex Hospital chapel died January 1919 in the global flu pandemic 1918-20. #histnursing #histmed
January 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Welcome to #Swandean Isolation #Hospital nr #Worthing
This is a new #Wikipedia hospital article which includes Matron Rose Agnes Hall (1869–1947) who trained at The London Hospital 💙
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #HistMed
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This is a new #Wikipedia hospital article which includes Matron Rose Agnes Hall (1869–1947) who trained at The London Hospital 💙
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #HistMed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swandea...
Swandean Isolation Hospital - Wikipedia
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January 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Shortly after the NHS was created in 1948, it led to a recruitment campaign to attract Irish students to train and work as nurses. By 1971, they made up around 12% of all nursing staff in the NHS.
Explore the stories of some of those nurses in our magazine feature ⬇️
Explore the stories of some of those nurses in our magazine feature ⬇️
The nurses who left Ireland to work for the NHS | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing
A leap into the unknown led to lifelong careers in the NHS for thousands of Irish nurses
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December 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Our home is built on the site of what was several buildings, with some parts dating back to the 1720s. The 1st floor landing still looks much like the 1920s interior and has many original features.
Book onto one of our tours to see for yourself: https://bit.ly/445J2I3
#HistNursing
Book onto one of our tours to see for yourself: https://bit.ly/445J2I3
#HistNursing
December 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Our home is built on the site of what was several buildings, with some parts dating back to the 1720s. The 1st floor landing still looks much like the 1920s interior and has many original features.
Book onto one of our tours to see for yourself: https://bit.ly/445J2I3
#HistNursing
Book onto one of our tours to see for yourself: https://bit.ly/445J2I3
#HistNursing
Good to see another nursing leader from Canada recognized - #bornOTD #histnursing
1/1/1862 — b. Georgina Pope, Canadian nursing leader. The first matron of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (1908) + the first Canadian #military nurse to be a recipient of a Royal Red Cross Class 1 medal (1903) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #HistNursing #MedSky #MedHist #CanadianHistory #BOTD
January 11, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Good to see another nursing leader from Canada recognized - #bornOTD #histnursing
So good to see this #bornOTD of a British nurse leader of the profession. #histnursing
1/5/1850 — b. Sidney Jane Browne, British nursing leader. Introduced strict new training standards as the first Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (1902); DBE (1919); first president, Royal Coll of Nursing (1922-25) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #HistNursing
January 11, 2026 at 10:30 AM
So good to see this #bornOTD of a British nurse leader of the profession. #histnursing
#histnursing fellowships - share widely as these are few and far between ......
Barbara Bates Center Fellowships Applications are opened! #Archives #Histnursing #histmed
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Barbara Bates Center Fellowships Now Available
The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is taking applications for 2026 Fellowships and Research Awards. Interested individuals a...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:28 AM
#histnursing fellowships - share widely as these are few and far between ......
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Enduring themes #histnursing
Today's Find: Cover of "Life Magazine" 5 Jan 1942 on the U.S. nursing shortage tinyurl.com/qfhv3hs #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Enduring themes #histnursing
Deadline this week for papers #histnursing
Deadline 15 January 2026!
Special edition journal
Submit now!
The MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
Special edition journal
Submit now!
The MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
January 11, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Deadline this week for papers #histnursing
Allow us to draw your attention to this powerful #histnursing #histmed paper on disaster nursing and the UK East Coast Floods of January and February 1953
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‘Britain’s Fight Against the Cruel Sea’: Disaster Nursing and the East Coast Floods of 1953 – The UKAHN Bulletin: ISSN 2049-9744
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January 11, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Allow us to draw your attention to this powerful #histnursing #histmed paper on disaster nursing and the UK East Coast Floods of January and February 1953
bulletin.ukahn.org/britains-fig...
bulletin.ukahn.org/britains-fig...