Resources

British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) in Nottingham. Credit: R. Edlin-White

Movers and Shapers
Our Movers and Shapers document contains a detailed list of key individuals involved in nursing in Nottinghamshire over the past 200 years. This will be updated periodically as our research continues. If you have any suggestions please contact us at nottsnursinghistory@outlook.com.

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Timeline
We have produced a timeline of key events relating to nursing in Nottinghamshire between 1782 and 1945. The timeline is continually updated and we appreciate comments and suggestions from readers.

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Oral Histories in the Local History Collection, Nottingham Central Library
This document provides a list and brief description of oral histories, held in the Local History Collection at Nottingham Central Library, relevant to the history of nursing. Here is a link to the library’s catalogue where information on how to access the oral histories can be found. https://emlib.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/nottcity

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Organisations and Groups
UK Association for the History of Nursing UKAHN
Florence Nightingale Museum
Wellcome Library
Royal College of Nursing 
Ethel Gordon Fenwick Commemorative Partnership

Further Reading

• Abel-Smith, B., A History of the Nursing Profession (London, 1960).
• Carpenter, M., Working for Health: The History of the Confederation of Health Service Employees (London, 1987).
• Davies, C., Gender and the Professional Predicament in Nursing (Buckingham, 1996).
• Hallam, J., Nursing the Image: Media Culture and Professional Identity (London, 2000).
• Hallet, C., Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War (Oxford, 2014).
• Hallet, C., Edith Cavell and her Legend (London, 2019).
• Hart, C., Behind the Mask: Their Unions and Nursing Policy (London, 1994).
• Hawkins, S., Nursing and Women’s Labour in the 19th Century (London, 2010).
• Helmstadter, C., Nursing before Nightingale 1815-1899 (London, 2016)
• Helmstadter, C., Beyond Nightingale: Nursing on the Crimean War Battlefields (London, 2019).
• Rafferty, A.M., The Politics of Nursing Knowledge (London, 1996).
• Rappaport, H., In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon. (London, 2022)
• Salvage, J., The Politics of Nursing (London, 1985).
• Watt, L., A History of Nursing. Amberley Publishing (2019)
• Williams, L.M., Ellen N. La Motte: Nurse, Writer, Activist (Manchester, 2020).
• Witz, A., Professions and Patriarchy (London, 1992).

Useful Links

• Berry, D., ‘What’s in a History of Medical Devices? – A Timeline for the UK and Ireland’, University of Birmingham, 6 April 2022.
• https://memoriesofnursing.uk/about
• qaranc.co.uk/qaimns.php
• Scarletfinders.co.uk