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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
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
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#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 10:23 AM
Insights into nurses and VADs in WW1 #lestWeForget #histnursing
#OnThisDay in 1918 Germany signed the armistice, officially marking the end of the First World War. Please see this blog from 2018 on the contributions of the staff at the University War Hospital at the Highfield Campus site during WW1 buff.ly/rUZtpWF
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Insights into nurses and VADs in WW1 #lestWeForget #histnursing
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Recommended reading for #RemembranceDay
#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 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Recommended reading for #RemembranceDay
So pleased to be reminded of the nurses #WW1 memorial in Liverpool Cathedral #histnursing #lestweforget #armisticeday
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So pleased to be reminded of the nurses #WW1 memorial in Liverpool Cathedral #histnursing #lestweforget #armisticeday
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...
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Mapping memorials on #Remembrance Day
On #RemembranceDay, we encourage you to use the Mapping Memorials site to find war memorials dedicated to women like Scottish nurse Margaret Brebner (1885–1942), who became a Matron in Singapore and was killed when her evacuation ship was bombed.
womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...
womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...
Margaret Brebner | Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland
womenofscotland.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Mapping memorials on #Remembrance Day
Nurse Annie Allan stands beside the grave of her colleague, Sister Burt. Scottish Women's Hospitals, Salonika, 1916. #ArmisticeDay #Remembrance
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#lestweforget #histnursing remembering women and nurses who died in conflicts
#ArmisticeDay Five women who died during two world wars are remembered in Crieff Cemetery - Sisters Jessie McRobbie and Mary Watson from #WW1 and Lucy Stalker FANY, Anne Archibald Drummond WRNS and Mina Kippen VAD from #WW2.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#lestweforget #histnursing remembering women and nurses who died in conflicts
#lestweforget #histnursing the Mapping Memorials site is so important - thank you for the reminder on this day .
On #RemembranceDay, we encourage you to use the Mapping Memorials site to find war memorials dedicated to women like Scottish nurse Margaret Brebner (1885–1942), who became a Matron in Singapore and was killed when her evacuation ship was bombed.
womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...
womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...
Margaret Brebner | Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland
womenofscotland.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#lestweforget #histnursing the Mapping Memorials site is so important - thank you for the reminder on this day .
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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 3:56 PM
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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
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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
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Motto Aversos Compono Animos = I Bring Relief to Troubled Minds
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On Remembrance Sunday we pay tribute to the sacrifice of nursing staff in conflicts.
Earlier this week, RCN President @bejoysebastian.bsky.social and RCN members attended the opening of the Field of Remembrance to pay their respects to armed forces members who have lost their lives in conflict.
Earlier this week, RCN President @bejoysebastian.bsky.social and RCN members attended the opening of the Field of Remembrance to pay their respects to armed forces members who have lost their lives in conflict.
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
On Remembrance Sunday we pay tribute to the sacrifice of nursing staff in conflicts.
Earlier this week, RCN President @bejoysebastian.bsky.social and RCN members attended the opening of the Field of Remembrance to pay their respects to armed forces members who have lost their lives in conflict.
Earlier this week, RCN President @bejoysebastian.bsky.social and RCN members attended the opening of the Field of Remembrance to pay their respects to armed forces members who have lost their lives in conflict.
Appropriate to share on Remembrance Sunday- The Cavell Van, which was used to transport the bodies of the Unknown Warrior and Edith Cavell is in Dover . View at
Cruise Terminal One from 7-9 and 14-16 Nov booking essential. Info from Kent History Pages www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../cavell-v....
Cruise Terminal One from 7-9 and 14-16 Nov booking essential. Info from Kent History Pages www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../cavell-v....
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November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Appropriate to share on Remembrance Sunday- The Cavell Van, which was used to transport the bodies of the Unknown Warrior and Edith Cavell is in Dover . View at
Cruise Terminal One from 7-9 and 14-16 Nov booking essential. Info from Kent History Pages www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../cavell-v....
Cruise Terminal One from 7-9 and 14-16 Nov booking essential. Info from Kent History Pages www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../cavell-v....
#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
Of interest #histnursing ? Online Talk: The Lady of the Lamp – Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Gaskell Wednesday 19 November 2025, 7-8pm
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/flore...
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/flore...
Online Talk: The Lady of the Lamp – Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Gaskell » elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Of interest #histnursing ? Online Talk: The Lady of the Lamp – Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Gaskell Wednesday 19 November 2025, 7-8pm
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/flore...
elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/flore...
Nurses as witnesses to the consequences of war #histnursing
Today’s Find: American nurse Ellen La Motte’s 1916 book “The Backwash of War” tinyurl.com/ybdv9uzg New edition out from @JHUPress tinyurl.com/ycflzhtg #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #ww1 #worldwar1
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Nurses as witnesses to the consequences of war #histnursing
Ce samedi, j'aurai le plaisir de participer au colloque "Femmes d’histoire et Histoire des femmes" organisé par la Fédération @histoirequebec.bsky.social. J'y parlerai de Charlotte, Bernadette, Rachel et toutes les autres infirmières psychiatriques du Québec : histoirequebec.qc.ca/evenement/co...
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Pleased to be at the launch of the Irish Nurses in the NHS an oral history exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum #histNursing
November 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Pleased to be at the launch of the Irish Nurses in the NHS an oral history exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum #histNursing
Next week, Fiona Garwood is speaking on the Scottish Women's Hospitals. There will be a chance to view a rare Scottish Women's Hospitals' medal awarded to Philippa Strachey. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/events/
🗓️ Wed 12 Nov 2025
🕛 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 LSE Library
🗓️ Wed 12 Nov 2025
🕛 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 LSE Library
Events – Friends of the Women's Library
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Are you interested in the challenges to womens' equality and the arts? Through the example of the art of Paula Rego and the work of Global Health 5050, join us and hear about the impact of art on women’s health
📅 13 Nov 25
⌚ 13:00 - 14:00
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📅 13 Nov 25
⌚ 13:00 - 14:00
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November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Are you interested in the challenges to womens' equality and the arts? Through the example of the art of Paula Rego and the work of Global Health 5050, join us and hear about the impact of art on women’s health
📅 13 Nov 25
⌚ 13:00 - 14:00
📌 Online
Book now: bit.ly/3ImfUnh
📅 13 Nov 25
⌚ 13:00 - 14:00
📌 Online
Book now: bit.ly/3ImfUnh
On Saturday at 2pm the Friends of Crieff Cemetery will be remembering, among others, Sister Mary Watson, who died #OTD in 1918.
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Meet Katherine Edith McCall Anderson RRC & Bar (1866–1924) 💙
Born in #Glasgow Her 1901 RRC was for serving in the 2nd Boer War, the 1919 Bar for #WW1
Matron St George's #London; Buried in Glasow
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katheri...
Born in #Glasgow Her 1901 RRC was for serving in the 2nd Boer War, the 1919 Bar for #WW1
Matron St George's #London; Buried in Glasow
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
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Katherine McCall Anderson - Wikipedia
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November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Today is #WorldDigitalPreservationDay This year asking ‘Why Preserve?’
Because we need Royal College of Nursing-The Voice of Nursing members' voices to be preserved past present and into the future
Nurses must heard as a #Union & as individuals
@rcn.org.uk #HistNursing
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Because we need Royal College of Nursing-The Voice of Nursing members' voices to be preserved past present and into the future
Nurses must heard as a #Union & as individuals
@rcn.org.uk #HistNursing
rcn.access.preservica.com
| Royal College of Nursing Digital Archive
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November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today is #WorldDigitalPreservationDay This year asking ‘Why Preserve?’
Because we need Royal College of Nursing-The Voice of Nursing members' voices to be preserved past present and into the future
Nurses must heard as a #Union & as individuals
@rcn.org.uk #HistNursing
rcn.access.preservica.com
Because we need Royal College of Nursing-The Voice of Nursing members' voices to be preserved past present and into the future
Nurses must heard as a #Union & as individuals
@rcn.org.uk #HistNursing
rcn.access.preservica.com
#histnursing so important as we approach Remembrance Day to recognise all those who contributed .
Significant Dates in Our Military History
4NOV 1914
Margaret MacDonald appointed Matron-in-Chief of Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service overseas
She becomes 1st woman in the British Empire to reach rank of major
Had served as nurse in the Spanish-American War & Boer War
She retired in 1948
4NOV 1914
Margaret MacDonald appointed Matron-in-Chief of Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service overseas
She becomes 1st woman in the British Empire to reach rank of major
Had served as nurse in the Spanish-American War & Boer War
She retired in 1948
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#histnursing so important as we approach Remembrance Day to recognise all those who contributed .