Stories
- Article
Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
- Article
The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Queen's Nursing Institute
Queen's Nursing InstituteDate: 1887-1997Reference: SA/QNI- Archives and manuscripts
Health + Care Show 2015 - Exhibitors N-No
Date: 2015Reference: ES/HAC2015/15Part of: Exhibitions and Shows- Books
Mental health nursing : the working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale.
Date: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 19 Dec 1969Reference: SA/CMO/C/121Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Publications, publicity, histories
Date: 1876-1998Reference: SA/QNI/PPart of: Queen's Nursing Institute