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Our Members
Frances Cadd is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham with an interest in twentieth-century British nursing. Her thesis examines the life of nurse and political activist, Avis Hutt (1917-2010), exploring the links between her professional nursing career and personal engagement with political organisations and the women’s movement throughout the twentieth-century. Previous research includes interwar nurses’ trade union activities and membership of the British Union of Fascists.
Rosemary Collins is an independent researcher and social historian. She has a PhD in social science, conducted research at the University of Bristol and taught at the Open University for many years. Since retirement she has been a key member of the Radcliffe on Trent First World War research group, whose findings are published on their website.
Jill Oakland is a retired teacher and an amateur local historian with an interest in nursing in WW1. She is chair of Beeston & District Local History Society and her latest publication is ‘Marian Bannister, Heroic Nurse on the Western Front and at Dunkirk’. She is also a member of the Thoroton Society and Nottinghamshire Local History Association.
Eileen Shepherd is an amateur historian with an interest in local nursing history and is a member of the Ethel Gordon Fenwick Commemorative Partnership. She trained as a nurse and has recently retired from her role as senior clinical editor at Nursing Times.
David S Stewart is a retired headteacher. In 2018 he co-authored Shoulder to Shoulder – Nottinghamshire Women Make their Mark and in 2019 published the biographies of the Nottingham women of the 1866 Suffrage petition. In 2020 the University of Nottingham published his blog on Ann Milne, a soldier’s wife in the Crimea. He is currently working with Backlit on the history of the Nottingham Asylum. For the last forty five years he has been researching and writing on the history of children and adults with learning disabilities, including presenting for the OU’s conferences on the Social History of Learning Disability.
Val Wood is an independent researcher and social historian. She has published on the UK women’s suffrage movement and written articles on early women councillors and the Nottinghamshire MP Florence Paton. She is a former nurse and midwife and a retired academic lecturer.
Pauline Woodhouse is a community historian and retired academic lecturer with interests in nursing during WW1 and local district nursing history. She was a volunteer transcriber for the British Red Cross and helped produce the online records of the WW1 Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment members. Pauline is one of the four members of Radcliffe on Trent WW1 Research Group who have done extensive work on the impact of the war on their village, published online at www.radcliffeontrentww1.org.uk
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