One month left to apply for grants in Scottish History from the Strathmartine Trust #history #scotland

I love this Victorian watercolour sketch c1860 of a man charting his illness in the West Indies.

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring. Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

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Today's #HistNursing #Badge is from the Colonial Nursing Association 1895-1966 Formed to provide trained nurses to British communities abroad, esp in the British colonies 1919 renamed Overseas Nursing Ass @rcnhistory.bsky.social See more #RCNArchives badges 👀 rcn.access.preservica.com/archive

Grants of up to £2,500 are available for research projects, courses or activities related to #HistNursing and #Midwifery, for the duration of up to one year. Closes: 5pm on 13 May @rcnhistory.bsky.social @rcnfoundation.bsky.social rcnfoundation.rcn.org.uk/Grants-and-f...

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

#HistNursing funding alert 📣👇

Linked to the Exhibition on Nurse Catherine Pine - our #histnursing forum chair speaking on 'Deeds not Words - the nurse suffragettes arrested 1906-1914'. Wednesday 20th May at 4:00pm BST (London Time) #histnursing All details via the link florence-nightingale.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...

1922 painting of Sisi Nurse ( Charlotte Obama) instrumental in co- financing first midwifery trading in Nigeria #histnursing #womenshistorymonth. Painting by Aina Onabolu at Tate Modern exhibition.

#HistNursing #AprilFool ? 👻

Taking place tomorrow: Putting the voices of people most affected by Long COVID at the forefront, we’ll unpack workplace realities, amplify lived experience and more in our virtual seminar. Join us ⬇️

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Grants of up to £2,500 are available for research projects, courses or activities related to #HistNursing and #Midwifery, for the duration of up to one year. Closes: 5pm on 13 May @rcnhistory.bsky.social @rcnfoundation.bsky.social rcnfoundation.rcn.org.uk/Grants-and-f...

Great new blog post in time for your morning tea break! 🫖 #TeaUp #HistNursing @rcnhistory.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A bumper crop of #HistNursing #NursesinRed today 💙 #WomensHistory #WomenInRed #Wikipedia

As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... Williamina McIntosh Barclay MBE (5 March 1883 – 15 July 1975) was a district nurse involved in the evacuation of the Scottish archipelago St Kilda.

As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_H... (1881–1958), Military Matron during #WW1, Matron of the London Fever Hospital for over twenty five years, and founder member of Royal College of Nursing.

As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet... Matron Harriet Alsop MBE SRN ( 1867 -1950) advocate for nurses and nursing within the Poor Law system.

As #womenshistorymonth ends - some notable nurses written by our #nursesinred group #histnursing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric... Matron Monk (1882 - 1962) CBE, RRC COSTJ was a nursing leader, matron of The London Hospital for 12 years and President of the College of Nursing (now RCN).

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#Nationwide marks 100 years of The Plough and the Stars by #SeánOCasey, now on RTÉ Player: www.rte.ie/player/serie... From 1926 @abbeytheatre.bsky.social riots to modern masterpiece, it still shapes Irish theatre. Crónán Ó Doibhlin & Audrey Whitty (NLI Director) explore O’Casey’s archive + legacy 🎭

It was always those with little else to carry who carried the songs to Babylon to the Mississippi- some of these last possessed less than nothing did not own their own bodies yet, three centuries later, deep rhythms from Africa, stowed in their hearts & bones, carry the world’s songs. Moya Cannon

I finally got to pay my respects to a special NZANS in Tidworth Military Cemetery- the only female from WW1- she died of influenza on the ‘death ship’ Tahiti, the captain thought nurses were frivolous. Her story is here nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/es… - almost couldn’t read headston#HistNursingng

Cecilia Berdichevsky #Polish #Argentinian computer scientist. 1961 began using "Clementina" 1st Ferranti Mercury computer in country. Post 1966 coup, she combined accountancy knowledge with computing to run bank computers. b. #OTD 30 Mar 1925 in #Vilnius en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia...

#histnursing an online presentation - one to sign up for ?

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Today’s Find: Elsie Hooper’s novel “Angels of the Pacific” about U.S. Army & Navy nurses in the Philippines during WWII tinyurl.com/yckrzzvw #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

What a great write up from @migrantvoice.bsky.social on our new exhibition, Moved to Care: Stories of nursing and migration. Thank you! Read the review: www.migrantvoice.org/articles/mig... Plan your visit: www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve... #MovedToCare #HistNursing

Lovely tribute to Baroness Emerton #HistNursing 💙 www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Today's #HistNursing #Badge is from the Colonial Nursing Association 1895-1966 Formed to provide trained nurses to British communities abroad, esp in the British colonies 1919 renamed Overseas Nursing Ass @rcnhistory.bsky.social See more #RCNArchives badges 👀 rcn.access.preservica.com/archive

The strong geese claim the sky again & tell us … of the many shifts & weathers of the long-boned earth. Blind to their huge, water-carved charts, our blood dull to the the tug of poles, we are tuned still to the rising & dying of light & we still share their need to nest & to journey. Moya Cannon

Explore the lives of Irish migrant women, this Women’s History Month. Read more: womenshistorynetwork.org/an-analysis-... #WomensHistoryMonth

RCN President Bejoy Sebastian about to address the crowd!!!

Getting excited for Liverpool? There's a great line up of speakers, motions and debates for #RCN26. Join our webinars in April and May to help you prepare. Develop your critical thinking, presentation and evaluation skills. 🔗 https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/congress-workshops-2026

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I refer His Holiness to my blogpost on the subject: lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/11/whit...

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To clarify the deadline is now 30 April. It’s in the process of being updated on the website.

Pleased to share our History of Nursing Forum chair will be speaking on 'Deeds not Words - the nurse suffragettes arrested 1906-1914'. Wednesday 20th May at 4:00pm BST (London Time) All details via the link florence-nightingale.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...

Read Nicola’s reflections on the findings, and the lasting impact of the pandemic on our profession, in her latest blog ➡️ bit.ly/4lIu5T9

Fyi @newsprof1.bsky.social

In January 2026 Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo announced names of 72 women scientists proposed to be added to 72 male scientists already engraved on the Eiffel Tower. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of 72 women scientists since 1789. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

TW #suicide Just submitted my missive of early #nurse deaths and WW1- straight on the next - not a cheery topic either. Early newspaper reports certainly don’t hold back with descriptions ! 1912 #HistNursing