Blog
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10 Sep 2025
The untold story of nurses in infection prevention and control
The blog highlights nurses' often-overlooked role in pioneering infection prevention, from Florence Nightingale's data-driven reforms to Edna C. Morse's pioneering hand hygiene research. It shows their innovations remain crucial today for patient safety and antimicrobial stewardship.
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21 Aug 2025
Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo - 1660 - 1820
This Blog highlights a very important new book about early nursing history written by Allanah Tomkins, professor of social history. It gives new insight into nursing pre-Nightingale and helps challenge the dominant narrative that all pre-reform nurses were terrible.
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4 Jul 2025
Raising the profile of pioneering nurses at the Glasgow Science Festival
This blog highlights our experience of running two events at the Glasgow Science Festival which shared the stories of pioneering nurses from Glasgow - tabletop activities in a museum and a walking tour of the Glasgow Necropolis cemetery with Friends of Glasgow Necropolis.
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12 May 2025
Remembering Win Logan (1926-2025)
In this Blog, Janet looks at the rich and varied career of Win Logan, nurse educator and co-author of 'The Elements of Nursing'.
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7 May 2025
Honouring Nursing History: V E Day, World War Two
In this Blog, Kerry talks about her visit to the British Memorial in Normandy and remembering the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s surrender on 8 May,1945 (V-E Day).
