Putting a spot light on the contributions of Irish nurses to the National Health Service:

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...

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.

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)

Are you a journalist working in or from Wales? Brilliant opportunity for a new #RISJ fellowship in Oxford #cymru #journalism inclusivejournalism.cymru/blog/announc...

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...

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

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

And such a lovely man. Here he is in great form with @jimalkhalili www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them. History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.

From 'Breathe through your nose' to 'Care for your feet', a cast of largely unimpressed London infants spreading the municipal health message in 1938 More excellent health advice available through our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

If it all seems a bit crap right now .... listening to David Nyhan should help pick you up #journalism #studentrejectionletter : historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...

Look forward to reading it, Lindsey! You'll know about what Bell did for nurses. Here's my take on his contribution to Queen's Nursing: www.qnis.org.uk/history/sett...

2/2 I loved this quote from midwifery pioneer Johanna Hedén: “If I had instead been a teacher at a primary school worked in a nursery or in an asylum for the insane, then I wouldn’t have been ostracized like a scabby sheep.”

1/2 If you're in Gothenburg and have an interest in #histmed and #histnursing, the medical history museum is well woth a visit. Takes about 90 mins to get round and loads of fascinating material www.goteborg.com/en/places/th...

Perfect day to get some heliotherapy (sunbathing as a therapeutic measure) just like these tuberculosis patients at Mearnskirk Hospital c.1930 🌞

Didn't get the college place you wanted? David Nyhan's column was so brilliant the @bostonglobe.com reprinted it every year historycompany.co.uk/2011/08/09/a...

In Edinburgh for a conference, I came across this discrete memorial to the local people who fought for the Second Republic. #Publichistory #🗃️ #Spain #Scotland

I recently wrote up the class I taught on the history of the FDA, what existed before, and why the regulatory protections we have today are so important. threadreaderapp.com/thread/17705...

New article, #OpenAccess: Carsten Timmermann, ‘From Chemotherapy to Biotechnology - The Transformation of the Cancer Research Pipeline at Hoffmann-La Roche’, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, no. 1 (26 April 2025): 1–10, doi.org/10.1057/s415....

Historically, the public health response by USA was much more effective in combatting bovine TB than the UK: www.healthandcare.scot/stories/3966...

Was the Spanish Civil War the first media war? #Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...

It's #NationalPetDay! To celebrate here's a gorgeous painting of "The Dog and the Doctor" taking a well earned break together after a hard days work. (Oil painting by Joseph Denovan Adam, c.1919)

Whoah! Lovely @sandradick.bsky.social piece on Beatrice Garvie, doctor, feminist, and photographer on North Ronaldsay @dohertyta.bsky.social @wendymoore99.bsky.social @sarasheridan.bsky.social @katewomersley.com @milesmack.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502551...

I usually blupp about Edinburgh history but occasionally like to foray into the realm of Scottish cuisine. Today's topic is that quintessential bakery teatime treat, the "Empire Biscuit". 🍪 We may have a vague inkling of its origins as the "German Biscuit", but shall we get a bit more specific? 🧵▶️

Must read piece by a historian of public health! "The United States has bribed and bullied the WHO from the earliest days of the organization and there is good reason to believe that the U.S. is doing it again" www.statnews.com/2025/03/07/u...

Very sad news about the death of Scottish boxing legend and toast of Dundee, Dick McTaggart, at the age of 89. An Olympic gold medalist in 1956, he inspired countless compatriots to reach for the stars and enjoy healthy sport and exercise! I'm preparing an obit! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5197...

Baroness Anne Marie Rafferty made her maiden speech in the House of Lords yesterday, as part of the International Women’s Day debate. She focused on challenges facing nursing - but also mentioned her love of #HistNursing. You can watch here here - 14:28-14:35 www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Good piece which features the West Highland Free Press...#journalism

I'm currently reading Jennifer Worth's books about her time as a midwife in London's Eastend in the 1950s. if you are a #CallTheMidwife fan and have never read them I would strongly urge you to do so these books contain some of the most compelling stories ever put to print.

Republican troops moving tentatively into Belchite, Aragón after taking from Francoist defenders. September 1937. Photographer Agustí Centelles on the front line and clearly taking risks

American brigaders resting at Almochuel, just outside Belchite after taking the latter. September 1937. Photo by Washington-born volunteer Harry Randall.

Today's #AuctionHouseArtefact is the WW1 medals of Neil Shaw Mackinnon from Leith. His wartime career was brief but eventful, hallmarked by bravery and a run of luck ending in tragedy; less than 3 weeks after he received his DSC 🎖️ he would disappear with his ship into the Irish Sea. A thread 🧵▶️

Since RFK Jr will most definitely make polio great again, let me show you a video of iron lung machines from the pre-vaccine era I shot this in South Africa

“I can be a GP in the style that I enjoy.”  Professional values, autonomy, and fairness are experienced as influencing GPs' decisions to move or stay in #Rural #Scotland doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @louiselocock.bsky.social#Rural#Scotland#PrimaryCare

Chinese volunteers who fought in the International Brigades interned at Argèles-sur-Mer Concentration Camp in pre Vichy France early 1939 in front of their banner. Some 60 Chinese fought against Franco in the IBs, although there was never a "Chinese detachment" in IBs as banner claims

This is a beautiful memorial, reimagining Guernica, to the eight International Brigaders from Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby, NE England, who fought against Franco in Spain.