Nottinghamshire Nursing History Group
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Joseph Crosby (1867-1926) A life of service as an Asylum Attendant
Joseph Crosby was an attendant (mental health nurse) employed at Nottingham General Lunatic Asylum, Sneinton, from 1887 to 1902. He transferred to Nottinghamshire County Asylum in 1902 where he wor…
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A new article about Joseph Crosby: A life of service as an Asylum Attendant nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/j...
Dates for the diary: topical conferences with enticing themes.
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Dates for the diary: topical conferences with enticing themes.
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Happy #NursingSupportWorkersDay! 🎉
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy #NursingSupportWorkersDay! 🎉
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
Today we shine a light on nursing support workers and the essential care they provide to patients and their families.
Join the celebrations – tag or send this to your colleagues to say thank you #NSWD25 https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
A new article about Joseph Crosby: A life of service as an Asylum Attendant nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/j...
Joseph Crosby (1867-1926) A life of service as an Asylum Attendant
Joseph Crosby was an attendant (mental health nurse) employed at Nottingham General Lunatic Asylum, Sneinton, from 1887 to 1902. He transferred to Nottinghamshire County Asylum in 1902 where he wor…
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A new article about Joseph Crosby: A life of service as an Asylum Attendant nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/j...
"Too little, too late". Unforgettable
We will never forget how nursing staff and their patients were failed by those at the highest levels of government during the pandemic.
This report must mark a turning point in how health emergencies are responded to and how the voice of nursing must never be ignored again. #CovidInquiry
This report must mark a turning point in how health emergencies are responded to and how the voice of nursing must never be ignored again. #CovidInquiry
The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, has today published her second report.
Baroness Hallett is calling for the prompt and thorough implementation of 19 key recommendations.
Read about the report on the Inquiry's website 👇
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/
Baroness Hallett is calling for the prompt and thorough implementation of 19 key recommendations.
Read about the report on the Inquiry's website 👇
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
"Too little, too late". Unforgettable
Mon̈day 24th, an opportunity to learn about the Nottinghamshire Nightingales.
Details below:
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-th...
Details below:
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-th...
Free Zoom: The Nottinghamshire Nightingales
Free Online Zoom:
The Nottinghamshire Nightingales
Join the Florence Nightingale museum from the comfort of your own home!
David S Stewart OBE D.Litt.h.c.DL, a retired headteacher, is a member of...
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Mon̈day 24th, an opportunity to learn about the Nottinghamshire Nightingales.
Details below:
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-th...
Details below:
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-th...
Introducing Matron Lever: managed organisational change, staff shortages and a strike at an asylum/mental hospital in Nottinghamshire. Sound familiar?
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nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/n...
Nursing Through Change: Matron Ellen Lever (1869–1951) at Notts County Asylum/ Notts County Mental Hospital
Ellen Lever worked at Notts County Asylum from 1902 when it opened until she retired in 1925. She never married and had a long career as Matron at the hospital, which included a period working ther…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Introducing Matron Lever: managed organisational change, staff shortages and a strike at an asylum/mental hospital in Nottinghamshire. Sound familiar?
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/n...
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/n...
Historic example of the art and science of Nursing, courtesy of Florence Nightingale.
#OTD in 1854, Florence Nightingale wrote a letter to surgeon Dr Bowman with statistics from Scutari Hospital. She later used it in her Coxcomb Chart to prove that most deaths during the Crimean War were caused by diseases rather than battle wounds. See the chart in our #ArtofNursing exhibition!
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Historic example of the art and science of Nursing, courtesy of Florence Nightingale.
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
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
Congratulations: 100 years of scholarship at the School of Pharmacy
www.nottingham.ac.uk/pharmacy
www.nottingham.ac.uk/pharmacy
School of Pharmacy - The University of Nottingham
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November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Congratulations: 100 years of scholarship at the School of Pharmacy
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Looks very interesting, thanks for sharing.
I’ve just been advised of this #HistNursing doctorate published about Australian nurses in WW1 - thanks Alison who administers Facebook page on WW1 Aus & NZ nurses
Breaking bread with the dead: The Australian
Through narrative inquiry and microhistory, this thesis contextualises and explores the collective and individual life experiences of the Bluebirds who were a group of twenty trained Australian nurses...
acquire.cqu.edu.au
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Looks very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Important, international conference on 1 June 2026.
Save the date for our 2026 Research Colloquium. June 1st.
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Important, international conference on 1 June 2026.
A date for the diary: Monday 24th November. See www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-th...
Free Zoom: The Nottinghamshire Nightingales
Free Online Zoom:
The Nottinghamshire Nightingales
Join the Florence Nightingale museum from the comfort of your own home!
David S Stewart OBE D.Litt.h.c.DL, a retired headteacher, is a member of...
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A date for the diary: Monday 24th November. See www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/free-zoom-th...
Lovely. Reminds of the phrase 'you can't be, what you don't see'.
Object of the Month – No. 2 ‘Sister’ Figurine, 1991
In acknowledgment of Black History Month, this month’s object is a painted wooden figurine of a brown-skinned nursing Sister. She is painted wearing a dark blue dress and belt with openwork silver buckle.
#HistNursing #BlackHistoryMonth
In acknowledgment of Black History Month, this month’s object is a painted wooden figurine of a brown-skinned nursing Sister. She is painted wearing a dark blue dress and belt with openwork silver buckle.
#HistNursing #BlackHistoryMonth
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Lovely. Reminds of the phrase 'you can't be, what you don't see'.
Marking Black History Month through the contribution of the Nottingham Branch of the Nurses Association of Jamaica. See
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/c...
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/c...
Celebrating Black History Month: Nurses Association of Jamaica, Nottingham Branch
The Nottingham branch of the UK Nurses Association of Jamaica emerged in the early 1980s and has made a significant contribution to the lives of BAME nurses and the wider community. This blog explo…
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October 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Marking Black History Month through the contribution of the Nottingham Branch of the Nurses Association of Jamaica. See
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/c...
nottinghamnursinghistory.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/c...
Learning from the past. A great start to the academic year.
Success to all students.
Success to all students.
The new academic year has us exploring how nursing courses have changed over time.
Curious? Discover items like this 1923 'Syllabus of Lectures and Demonstrations for Education and Training in Fever Nursing' in our pamphlet collection: https://bit.ly/3QlOsEL
#HistNursing
Curious? Discover items like this 1923 'Syllabus of Lectures and Demonstrations for Education and Training in Fever Nursing' in our pamphlet collection: https://bit.ly/3QlOsEL
#HistNursing
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Learning from the past. A great start to the academic year.
Success to all students.
Success to all students.
Evocative images: nursing from the patient perspective.
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salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/patients-eye...
A patient’s eye view Salisbury Healthcare History
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September 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Evocative images: nursing from the patient perspective.
salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/patients-eye...
salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/patients-eye...
Thanks for sharing a very special image from North Nottinghamshire.
Curious about the back story.
Curious about the back story.
great to see that a book from Worksop has survived for about 840 years
Bats. Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185. NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 54v.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
August 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Thanks for sharing a very special image from North Nottinghamshire.
Curious about the back story.
Curious about the back story.
Looks stunning. Success with the exhibition.
Upcoming exhibition at Christchurch Nurse’s memorial chapel and more info on the website www.cnmc.org.nz/resources/mu... #HistNursing #nursing
August 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Looks stunning. Success with the exhibition.
Another treasure added to your collection @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social
Today we have accessioned this Royal Red Cross medal (2nd Class). It was awarded to Matron Herbert for her work with wounded soldiers at the Worcester Infirmary during the First World War. This was the first medal for women for devotion and competence in nursing duties.
August 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Another treasure added to your collection @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social
Learn about life and work of Eliza and Maria Trueman from Nottinghamshire, among the first nurses to train at the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
Research courtesy of David Stewart.
fona.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Research courtesy of David Stewart.
fona.org.uk/wp-content/u...
fona.org.uk
August 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Learn about life and work of Eliza and Maria Trueman from Nottinghamshire, among the first nurses to train at the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
Research courtesy of David Stewart.
fona.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Research courtesy of David Stewart.
fona.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Fascinating nursing history from Scotland at
www.qnis.org.uk/about-qnis/o...
www.qnis.org.uk/about-qnis/o...
Our history
QNIS was originally named the Queen’s Jubilee Institute of Nurses, because we were founded through a donation from Queen Victoria on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 1889. The organisation was established to provide training for nurses so they could care for the ‘sick poor’ in their own homes and communities, with a specific focus on those who could not afford a private nurse or hospital.
www.qnis.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Fascinating nursing history from Scotland at
www.qnis.org.uk/about-qnis/o...
www.qnis.org.uk/about-qnis/o...