one of my first jobs - tea lady for the children's and religious (programming) floors. I had a trolley with a tea urn and a bell! #TeaUp 🫖
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one of my first jobs - tea lady for the children's and religious (programming) floors. I had a trolley with a tea urn and a bell! #TeaUp 🫖
White and silver enamel Maltese cross, centre has a blue enamel circular rim inscribed 'Colindale Hospital' central silver disc has a white and red enamel shield/crest of Edgware/Hendon in the centre.
Today's #HistNursing #Badge takes us to #Colindale
Colindale Hospital was first a #MentalHealth hosp, the in #WW1 & #WW2 emergency hosp, a TB hosp, and until closure in 1996 a general hospital
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See more #RCNArchives badges 👀
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New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records announced by
CoramBAAF & ARA today. The platform will make it easier for adopted & care-experienced people to find & access records relating to their adoption and time in care. www.archives.org.uk/news/new-pla...
New online #HistMed collection #USA with some #HistNursing images
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search.library.wisc.edu/search/digit...
Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
sslh.org.uk/2026/02/19/l...
An index for Labour History Review vol 90 (2025) is now on our website. There are indexes for every issue of the Society's publications since it was founded in 1960, with a consolidated index in Excel from 1990 when LHR was launched. All indexes are free to download.
sslh.org.uk/publications...
Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed?
Ulf Sandström for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
White and silver enamel Maltese cross, centre has a blue enamel circular rim inscribed 'Colindale Hospital' central silver disc has a white and red enamel shield/crest of Edgware/Hendon in the centre.
Today's #HistNursing #Badge takes us to #Colindale
Colindale Hospital was first a #MentalHealth hosp, the in #WW1 & #WW2 emergency hosp, a TB hosp, and until closure in 1996 a general hospital
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
See more #RCNArchives badges 👀
rcn.access.preservica.com/archive
For #InternationalWomensDay, @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating the centenary of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social #IWD
#OTD 1890 Molly Morris was born in Leyland, Lancashire. She was a nurse, Suffragette and wife to the communist Jack Murphy. She nursed TB, London's rich & poor, in Spain's Civil War and WW2 blitz. #SCW #histnursing #MollyMurphy
Today is the Covid National Day of Reflection, and11 March marks the 6th anniversary of the WHO declaring the Covid pandemic. Nursing staff are still impacted by the pandemic, with many still living with long COVID.
We will continue to support our members ➡️ https://bit.ly/4cyjS9y (1/2)
You had lovely words - thank you!
A quote card that reads from the RCN Professional Lead for Midwifery & Women's Health Maria Symeonaki that reads: When more than half the population are women, designing health systems around their needs is not a special interest - it is simply good health care.
You can also learn more about what we need for women’s health across the UK in our blog from RCN Professional Lead for Midwifery and Women’s Health, Maria Symeonaki. bit.ly/3P7Jtw5
"When women rise, communities rise, and when nursing rises, patients’ lives change."
This #InternationalWomensDay, join Professor Nicola Ranger in calling for recognition of the skill, leadership and innovation women bring to the nursing profession.
#histnursing #IWD
Today's Vintage Book Cover: Uh, oh, entanglements beyond romance! Peggy Gaddis (March 5, 1895 - June 14, 1966) wrote numerous romances, including many medical tinyurl.com/w6s69phc First published 1957 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
Internationally educated nursing staff (IENs) are a vital part of the health and care workforce.
On #OverseasNHSWorkersDay, RCN President Bejoy Sebastian reflects on his own journey as an internationally educated nurse and highlights the importance of IENs across all settings. Watch below ⬇️
A poster encouraging people to write to their MP to demand they scrap the proposed changes to indefinite leave to remain. The poster is blue, with a white RCN logo at the bottom.
We are demanding that IENs working in all settings must continue to be eligible for Indefinite Leave to Remain after five years.
Whether you’re impacted by the changes or not, write to your MP today to demand the UK government scrap the proposed changes. bit.ly/45qa50U
Great news for #WomensHistory
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
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Every time I search @virtualtreasury.bsky.social there’s a little bit more for #nurse or #nursing
Well worth remembering as a #HistNursing #WomensHistory free online resource
virtualtreasury.ie/search-resul...
Also @bharchives.bsky.social - she’s one of yours 😉
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It was wonderful to see old friends from @museumoflondon.bsky.social suffragette collections and to talk with the current custodian of the medal who flew with it from America.
A very special morning
Do go and see it!
Lovely morning at the launch of the Catherine Pine WSPU suffragette medal @ Florence Nightingale Museum.
On private loan & 1st time in public display
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #IWD
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/exhibition-i...
And not forgetting @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social #WomensHistory
Also #NursesInRed @rcnhistory.bsky.social
#WomensHistory #HistNursing 💙
The gender gap reflects long-standing historical and systemic bias in publishing, archives and citation. This Women’s History Month, we are spotlighting the global volunteers working to build a more equitable digital record
#InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD
Read about Wales’s Forgotten Pioneering Women Police Officers on our website #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist #WomensHistory womenshistorynetwork.org/waless-forgo...
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And now we have @romalynante3.bsky.social
A nurse-poet from the Philippines shares some of her stories and poems
#HistNursing @rcnhistory.bsky.social
www.romalynante.com
