They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. #remembrance #militaryhospital

#WorldRadiographyDay & back in the day we had an X-ray dept. Bill Sutherland, Head of medical physics, identified by his daughter over on Insta (a few yrs back) thank you Who remembers the X-ray dept & where it was? #XRayDay #HistNursing #MentalHealthHistory #RadiographyDay

Are you passionate about the architecture and design of the Victorian & Edwardian eras? The Victorian Society is seeking new Trustees to join its Board and help shape its future. More: bit.ly/3JjwoNU Applications close: 18th Nov 2025 #trustees #charity #heritage #TrusteesWeek #volunteer

Here is a diagram of how the the local military hospitals dealt with various casualties arriving in Cardiff. Image is from the Prince and the Pioneers by Robert Phelps #Firstworldwar #orthopaediccasualties #welshmetropolitanwarhospital

Some may not be aware of the military history associated with Whitchurch Hospital. During the First World War, the hospital was renamed The Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital and officially opened on the 9th of June 1915 #militaryhospital #firstworldwar #welshmetropolitanwarhospital

Save the date for our 2026 Research Colloquium. June 1st.

We’re hiring! 💼 Join MHM Wales and make a real difference. Roles available: • Therapeutic Wellbeing Outreach Worker (9-month pilot) • Parent Peer Support Worker (perm) • Parent Peer Support Advocate (perm) Apply 👉 mhmwales.org.uk/join-us/jobs... #JobsWales #MHM40

Two photos of the main entrance and water tower featured in Hilary M. Thomas’s book published to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Whitchurch Hospital in 1983. #mentalhealthhistory #whitchurchhospitalhistory #hospitalhistory

#WorldMentalHealthDay Looking after our #mentalhealth is important every day #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #WMHD #WMHD2025 The Mental Health Foundation was founded by Derek Richter (📷wiki) in 1949. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatric research Centre at Whitchurch Hospital

#WorldMentalHealthDay Looking after our #mentalhealth is important every day #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #WMHD #WMHD2025 The Mental Health Foundation was founded by Derek Richter (📷wiki) in 1949. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatric research Centre at Whitchurch Hospital

💬 Our free Wellbeing & Creativity Session on 28th Nov is all about community connection. Come along to Bettws Life Centre and discover how creativity, conversation, and shared learning can support your mental health.

Did I mention this? 🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨 For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' #histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃 sshm.org/sshm-agm/

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST? Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' Free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

Honoured to write about Dr David Enoch for @bmj.com — reformer, teacher, author of Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes. Sadness in his passing, pride in his legacy. #MentalHealth www.bmj.com/content/391/...

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

Welcome to all our recent followers 👋🏻 We share the history of Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff. It was a Mental Health Hospital as well as a military hospital during both World Wars. Looking 👀 forward to sharing more with you all

Happy International “vintage” Coffee Day ☕️ Not sure I fancy a coffee from this tin 🧐 Photo taken in January 2008 #Coffee #CoffeeDay #InternationalCoffeeDay #CoffeeLovers #coffeetime #maxwellhouse

Let’s celebrate National Sporting Heritage Day #NSHD Sport was such an important part of Whitchurch Hospital life for both the patients and the staff. Sport is still played on the hospital fields which is a great legacy #NSHD2025 #sportheritage #hockeyhistory #footballhistory #crickethistory

The Heritage Centre is now #hiring a Collections Manager for our team  The candidate will be required to appraise + catalogue our object collections, ensuring high standards, + assisting in the preparation for our new museum. For more info + to apply: https://tinyurl.com/27aeekpe @rcpi.bsky.social

Feeling nostalgic today and looking back to when we 1st started Photos taken on ward W1A back in 2015 before the hospital closed #whitchurchhospital #whenwestarted #whitchurchhospitalhistoricalsociety #cardiffcitymentalhospital

Looking back on #WorldPharmacistDay Here are some vintage #pharmacists at Whitchurch Hospital The Pharmacy display for the Centenary in 2008 #whitchurchhospital #pharmacylife #whitchurchhospitalcardiff #whitchurchhospitalhistoricalsociety #pharmacy #WPD2025

Wrth i Strictly dychwelyd yfory, cymerwn gip ar y cerdyn dawns hyfryd yma, sydd â phensil ynghlwm! Marciwyd y cerdyn yn Ail Ddawns Flynyddol Cymdeithas Groseriaid Caerdydd ar 13 Ionawr 1897. Mae’n rhan o gasgliad y Teulu Benjamin o Benarth, oedd a chysylltiad gyda’r busnes siopau bwyd yn lleol.

As Strictly returns tomorrow, we’re looking at this lovely dance card, complete with pencil! It was marked at the Cardiff Grocer’s Association’s 2nd Annual Ball on 13 January 1897. The card is part of the papers of the Benjamin Family of Penarth, who had links with the grocery business locally.

💚 This month marks 100 years since the UK’s first qualified occupational therapist, Margaret Barr Fulton took up a post in Aberdeen. To honour her legacy, @nhsgrampian.bsky.social unveiled a plaque to celebrate a century of OT: https://loom.ly/FJm4HS8

107 yrs ago Horatio Ellis Evans killed in Salonika, Greece. He was treated at the Hospital in 1916 & awarded the Military Medal. On recovering, re-posted overseas & killed in action - 17th September 1918 Thank you Jan for the research #firstworldwar #WeWillNeverForget #militaryhospital

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2024 Cardiff Coal Exchange, Butetown, Cardiff, Glamorgan Grade II*, Seward & Thomas, 1884-86 bit.ly/3yF9gnb #TopTen24 #cardiff #glamorgan #wales #cymru #listedbuilding #heritage #architecture

I wonder what cut of meat the butcher is preparing here? Something nice for the bank holiday? Photo from a collection used to make 75years since the hospital opened in 1983. #FunFriday #Hospitallife #hospitalbutcher

📢 There's still time to book your place for the RCN Wales Biennial Research Lecture. This year's theme centres around mental health both in the workplace and in clinical practice. 📍 Ty Maeth, 11 September You can find out more about our guest speakers and book online here: https://bit.ly/4oNl9gi

@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social Whitchurch Hospital COHSE nurses anti poll tax campaign 1990

As it’s #worldphotographyday I thought I would post one of Eyes 2 me’s fabulous photos. Photo taken in the last months before the hospital closed to inpatients in April 2016. #photography #photooftheday #Whitchurchhospital

As it’s #worldphotographyday I thought I would post one of Eyes 2 me’s fabulous photos. Photo taken in the last months before the hospital closed to inpatients in April 2016. #photography #photooftheday #Whitchurchhospital

Today we remember VJ Day “When you go home, tell them of us and say, For their tomorrow, we gave our today” John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958) Many were still being treated at the hospital into 1946. #VJDay #VJ80 #VJDay80

Ymunwch â Sialens Ddarllen yr Haf 2025: Gardd o Straeon! 🌿🌞 Tan 20fed Medi 2025, gall plant rhwng 4 a 11 oed ymweld â’u llyfrgell leol a chymryd rhan mewn taith hudol sy’n dathlu’r celfyddydau creadigol a’r grefft o adrodd straeon. hybiaucaerdydd.co.uk/sialens-ddar...

We're hiring! 📣 We are looking for a new Head of Archives to lead and develop our outstanding archive collections, services and team. Find full details below - closing date is 17th August! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/120005-... #ExploreYourArchives #HeritageJobs #AcademicJobs

📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date 5 pm on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p...

Today's #HistNursing #Badge is Boundary Park General Hospital #Oldham Previously the Workhouse in 1989 it became the Royal Oldham Hospital Can you spot the deliberate design mistake? Answer in Alt text See more of the #RCNArchives badge collection 👀 rcn.access.preservica.com/archive

We offer *free* postal loans to our members! Find the book you want on Library Search and then use this form to request it: buff.ly/BP3eyTc We post it to you for *free*, and we'll send you instructions on how to return it to us for *free*. Did we mention there's no charge?

Croeso i Bluesky 🦋 👋🏻 😊 Welcome to Bluesky 🦋 👋🏻 😊 @crowdcymru.bsky.social

Can’t resist a post on #cowappreciationday With thanks to the Beech family for this wonderful photo of a rather fine looking prize winning cow 🐄 Mr Alfred Beech was appointed in 1926 to manage the Cardiff City Mental Hospital farm

Penblwydd Hapus yn 77 #GIG Happy 77th Birthday #NHS Dr Thomas Hennelly, Medical Superintendent in 1948 Thanks to Eve for the group photo from the early days of the NHS #NHSBirthday #NHS77 #HistNursing #mentalhealthhistory #whitchurchhospital

Penblwydd Hapus yn 77 #GIG Happy 77th Birthday #NHS Dr Thomas Hennelly, Medical Superintendent in 1948 Thanks to Eve for the group photo from the early days of the NHS #NHSBirthday #NHS77 #HistNursing #mentalhealthhistory #whitchurchhospital

Please show some love and read the article as 1xWikipedia reviewing editor deemed LC 'not notable' enough for Wikipedia 😑 Luckily other editors challenged this. I wonder, why are only 20% biographical articles in English on W abt women? 🤔 #NursesInRed #WomenInRed ✊ @rcnhistory.bsky.social

Show some love for Lilian Cushon RRC (with bar) (1873–1967) Born in #Acton, principal #Matron of the @britishredcross.bsky.social Hospital at Netley #HistNursing #HistMed #WomensHistory #WomenInRed #WW1 @rcnhistory.bsky.social #NursesInRed #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_...

Seems it’s #TowerTuesday 🙌🏻😀 The Whitchurch Hospital water tower, quite the local historical landmark Photo taken on the 15th of May 2025 #WhitchurchHospital

Earlier this week Prof Judi Pettigrew @ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social presented at @ukahn.bsky.social Colloquium at Keele University. The important work of preserving the remarkable collection of the Costello family continues #OTHistory #HistNursing

Proud to be part of a research team exploring the intriguing connections between occupational therapy pioneers in Ireland and Wales from 1930 onwards.

Earlier this week Prof Judi Pettigrew @ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social presented at @ukahn.bsky.social Colloquium at Keele University. The important work of preserving the remarkable collection of the Costello family continues #OTHistory #HistNursing

Panel two at @ukahn.bsky.social #colloquium2025 was very fascinating. Thank you to the presenters.

Brilliant freelance curator project for @rcn.org.uk in Wales. Develop an exhibition celebrating the history of Ty Maeth, the RCN's HQ. £3k, til September, freelance. The history of nursing in Wales is fascinating - can't wait to see the eventual show! museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/exhibiti...