Interesting - never really clocked this but it also explains Scotty in Star Trek and the red haired bampot in the Simpsons.
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Interesting - never really clocked this but it also explains Scotty in Star Trek and the red haired bampot in the Simpsons.
Ah, them were days! @ianfraser.bsky.social @bsrg1.bsky.social @gleanniucha.bsky.social @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @trishaelliott.bsky.social
Hector’s House featuring Hector’s Scottish cousin….
Putting a spot light on the contributions of Irish nurses to the National Health Service:
Need a helluva lot of downsizing to move in, Dani!
Taken, I think, at his house in Norham Gardens, Oxford - now home to the Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism. It became known as The Open House for the warm welcome William and Grace extended to all and sundry.
1849 July 12: William Osler, Canadian physician & one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital was born tinyurl.com/3ufjfnsm This photo shows him around 1912. He died 29 Dec 1919 #histmed #medicalhistory
#HistNursing Advent day 18- how many of us have practiced CPR on versions of the resus Annie- the original mannequin and mould if face is in the Medical Museum in Oslo - photo mine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resusci... Resusci Anne - Wikipedia
The VERY useful list of #HistNursing #nurses with #Wikipedia articles has been updated 📖💙
Stories of amazing professionals await!
@rcnhistory.bsky.social #Wikipedia group use the list to inform their #NursesInRed project 🥳
#WomensHistory #WomenInRed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
oval silver and dark blue enamel badge. the outer rim in dark blue enamel is inscribed in Silver 'Certified Midwife'. The inner disc is a profile of Juno Luciana - the Roman goddess of childbirth (as inscribed on the pedestal she stands on)
Today's #HistNursing #Badge is Central #Midwives Board for #England & #Wales
1902 Midwives were state registered professionals ~20 years before nurses. Their badge shows Juno - Roman goddess of childbirth
@rcnhistory.bsky.social
See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀
rcn.access.preservica.com/archive
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...
Farm labourers, Ireland, c.1857, attributed to Augusta Crofton, pioneering photographer from Roscommon.
#HistNursing
Sports subs the Scottish Sun in brilliant form
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.
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)
The great thing about the programme is that you meet other journalists from across the world, like David Nyhan: historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...
Hope so!
Are you a journalist working in or from Wales? Brilliant opportunity for a new #RISJ fellowship in Oxford #cymru #journalism inclusivejournalism.cymru/blog/announc...
Yellow background, blue globe held in a black hand. 'You Mean the World, Nursing in a climate crisis', Royal College of Nursing Scotland with RCN hands logo (interlocking one hand blue, one red). It's the poster designed for the exhibition
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...
#skystorians 🗃️#archives
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/...
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...
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...
And a thoroughly decent kind and witty chap too. A very sad loss.
Edinburgh Live screengrab, "Edinburgh locals get glimpse of mega battleship as it sails down the Forth". Beneath is a picture of an aircraft carrier sailing *up* the Forth...
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! 🧵🌉🛳️▶️
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...
'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
Thoroughly well deserved, Rachel. Mrs H and I have hust finished it. Brilliant reporting interspersed with #histmed gems. Thank you so much for such a beautiful read.
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
