Join our presenters April Matthias, Anka Roberto, and Kassie Stoffer for "Trauma-Informed Peadgogical Approaches: Enhancing Empathy and Safety When Teaching History to Prepare Students for Contemporary Nursing Practice." Register and find more details here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere...

The first blue plaque outside London recognizing a pioneering Black nurse and midwife, Daphne Steele. #blackhistorymonth #histnursing www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Annual conference previews! There is still time to register to join us! Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 4A: Health, Ethics, and Memory in War and Atrocity #histnursing

Annual Conference previews! Join us for the 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History conference in Wilmington, NC. Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 3B: Public Health, and Community Care Moderator: Sheri Tesseyman #histnursing

Happening this Friday, October 3rd! Join us for the October Virtual Speakers Series "'I Just Want to Be of Help to My Own People': Race and Inequity in Gold Coast's (Ghana) Nursing Serivce, 1940-1950s," by Lucky Tomdi. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea... #histnursing

Annual conference previews! Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 3A: Labor, Wages, and Activism in Nursing #histnursing

Did you know we had a podcast? Recorded in 2022, Past Caring explores nursing and its history through conversations with historians, artists and nurses working today. Listen along: www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve... #PodcastDay #HistNursing #InternationalPodcastDay

Call for women’s history papers - #histnursing ?

Last call for silent auction items! Items due October 1st. For more information on where to send items, please visit: aahn.memberclicks.net/silent-aucti...

Happening TODAY (September 26)! Join us for the all members networking event from 2-3 pm. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/networking-g...

This is a 1913 postcard of London Hospital Nurses Training School. The nurse's message captures the everyday pressures and joys of student life from exams to going dancing. Explore the RCN Digital Archive: https://bit.ly/3pePUx7 #ExploreYourArchive #EYAEducation #HistNursing @rcnhistory.bsky.social

Conference previews continue! Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 2B: "Nurse Educators' Experiences Teaching History: A Call to Action to Use Trauma-Informed Pedagogy" #histnursing

Register today for the AAHN Preconference "Trauma-Informed Pedagogical Approaches: Enhancing Empathy and Safety When Teaching History to Prepare Students for Contemporary Nursing Practice." Registration and more details available here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... #histnursing

Happening this Friday (Sept. 26)! It's all member networking time! Join us from 2-3 pm Eastern for networking and catch-up time. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/networking-g...

Annual conference previews! Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 2A: Panel Presentation "Saving Babies, 1890-1975: Centering Nursing Practice in the Histories of the Boston Floating Hospital, the Seattle Children's Orthopedic Hospital, and Operation Babylift" #histnursing

Love a OTD #histnursing . American nurse multi-talented and pioneering .

Are you ready for History of Medicine week? Join us October 6-10 for a week of conversations & community building for anyone interested in the history of medicine. And there's more - check our website for other events happening online and around the country! #histmed histmed.org/history-of-m...

Hope you will join us, as I am presenting as part of a panel, discussing a novel platform for doing oral history research. My group used this platform to capture the experiences and perceptions of the first generation of nurse practitioners in Massachusetts.

More annual conference previews! Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 1B: Colonialism, Empire, and Transnational Nursing Moderator: @erinspinney.bsky.social #histnursing

We have an insightful new blog post from Dmytro Yesypenko about the role of folklore and epidemics in nineteenth-century #Ukranian literature #hstm #histmed #litsci #medhums: mediaepidemics.com/2025/08/29/e...

Over the next few weeks leading up to our conference October 16-18th we will be featuring a series of annual conference previews! Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... Session 1A: Teaching Nursing History and Pedagogy Moderator: Annemarie McAllister #histnursing

Today and tomorrow: "Protecting Bodies at Work", University of Geneva. Online attendance available (4:30pm start in Australia). Papers discuss occupational hazards; child labour and colonial era work/ worker's bodies; clothing, protective gear, & garlic. #histmed #bodystudies #materiality

Registered for the 2025 Preconference yet? Join us for "Trauma-Informed Peadgogical Approaches: Enhancing Empathy and Safety When Teaching History to Prepare Students for Contemporary Nursing Practice." Register and find more details here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... #histnursing

Happening this Friday, September 19th from 2-3pm Eastern Time! Join us for our retired members networking event. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/networking-g...

New blog from @rcnhistory.bsky.social on Infection Prevention and Control - just in time for #SepsisDay on the 13th. A really interesting #HistNursing read www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

💫New Workshop #CfP💫 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social. #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️

Today’s Find: “The Tuberculosis Nurse” by Ellen La Motte [1873-1961] published 1915 tinyurl.com/evdpf5j6 Also wrote “The Backwash of War” about her experiences in WWI & several books on the opium trade tinyurl.com/5n82t5c5 #histmed #medicalhistory #ellenlamotte #worldwari

Today is the last day for early brid conference registration! Register today for the 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History conference and save some money on the registration cost. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... #histnursing

Just two days left to take advantage of early bird conference registration! Register today to attend the 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History Conference: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... #histnursing

Looks a thought provoking virtual session #histnursing

Just four days left for early registration for our 42nd Annual Nursing & Healthcare History Conference! Register today: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere... #histnursing

Our October virtual speakers series will feature Lucky Tomdi presenting "'I Just Want to Be of Help to My Own People': Race and Inequity in Gold Coast’s (Ghana) Nursing Service, 1940-1950s." October 3 from 12-1 pm Eastern. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea... #histnursing

Today's #HistNursing #Badge is a British Solomon Islands Registered Nurse The design includes of turtle, birds and shield and dates from pre 1978 when the Islands gained independence @rcnhistory.bsky.social See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀 rcn.access.preservica.com/archive

Join us this Friday for the Early Career Researcher & Newish Instructor virtual networking session! Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/networking-g...

One for #histnursing ?

Happening this Friday from 12-1 pm Eastern time! Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts" Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea... #histnursing #histmed

📣Call for Papers📣 For the international conference, 'Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1600–1900' to be held at the University of Helsinki on 11–13 March 2026. Deadline for proposals: 8 June 2025 #histmed #histSTM

For much of the 20th century, nurses travelling hospital precincts wore an 'outdoor uniform' to protect them from the elements and protect their indoor uniform underneath from muddy streets and city dirt, while identifying them as employees of their hospital #ArchiveTravel #HistNursing #Archives

From volume 31 (2023) of NHR with (DOIs)! “The Nursing Students Only Speak Russian, French, and German!” The Effects of Poland’s Partitions, Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, and Wilson’s Liberal Internationalism on Nursing in Interwar Warsaw" by Lindsey Harris. Read it here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...

Join us May 2nd for Alannah Tomkins presenting "Nursing the Metropolis: the Female Ward Staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, 1660-1820." Register and read the abstract here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea... #histmed

From volume 31 (2023) of Nursing History Review, now with digital object identifiers (DOIs)! “Anna DeCosta Banks, Pioneer Black Nurse, the Ladies Benevolent Society, and the American Red Cross in Charleston’s 1918 Influenza Epidemic" by Carole Bennett. Read it here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...

Are you an established researcher doing nursing history research? Consider applying for our H-21 Established Researcher Research Grant for $3000! Find out more here: aahn.memberclicks.net/research-gra...

From volume 31 (2023) of Nursing History Review, now with digital object identifiers (DOIs)! “Male Nurses in England and Europe before 1820: Beyond the Madhouse" by alannahtomkins.bsky.social Read it here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...

Just one more week left to register for our education webinar! "Teaching History in Competency-based Education: Five History-focused Activities to Address Domain 3 Population Health Sub-competencies" April 24, 2025 3:30-5:30 PM aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-webi... #histnursing

Digging through 1970s issues of Community Care magazine for social workers' responses to fuel poverty, and I'm coming across so much interesting stuff on Meals-on-Wheels. Please tell me someone excellent has written a history of Meals-on-Wheels I can read? #HistMed #HistFood

From volume 31 (2023) of Nursing History Review, now with digital object identifiers (DOIs)! “Women’s Work: Nurses, Orderlies, and the Gendered Division of Care in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era British Army Hospitals" by @erinspinney.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...

Register today for our May virtual speaker series! Join us for "Nursing the Metropolis: The Female Ward Staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, 1660-1820," by @alannahtomkins.bsky.social Register and read the abstract here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea... #histnursing

From volume 31 (2023) of NHR, now with digital object identifiers (DOIs)! “Give Equal Prominence to the Role of the Nurse”: Power, Partnerships, and the Role of Expert Nursing in Premature Infant Care in the United States, 1922–1943 by Michelle C. Hehman. doi.org/10.5325/nurs... #histnursing