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.
- In pictures
War and disfigurement
The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.
- 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
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital / [World War I Nurse].
World War I NurseDate: 1918- Books
G.I. nightingales : the Army Nurse Corps in World War II / Barbara Brooks Tomblin.
Tomblin, Barbara.Date: [1996], ©1996- Books
Hemingway and a World War I nurse.
Date: 1985- Archives and manuscripts
"I Was A Nurse", by George Hirst
George HirstDate: late 20th centuryReference: MS.8772
- Pictures
- Online
Christmas day in a ward of a hospital. Watercolour by Nurse Dakin(?), 1917-1918.
Dakin (Nurse), active 1917.Date: 1917Reference: 43390i
