Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- Article
Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
- Article
Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Martyrdom of Edith Cavell a poem by Captain J W Bowen
Date: early 20th century - mid 20th centuryReference: SA/NFN/C/14Part of: Nation's Fund for Nurses- Archives and manuscripts
Leaflet advertising the opening of 'Stoneydeep', Teddington
Date: early 20th century - mid 20th centuryReference: SA/NFN/C/13Part of: Nation's Fund for Nurses- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers on the Tennis Courts at the Nurses' Home
Date: 1936 - 1957Reference: RET/2/2/13/3Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Gardens on the west side of the Retreat, near West Villa and the Nurses’ Home including views of terraces and herbaceous borders
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/2/8/14Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
‘To nurses' re the efefect of diet on teeth
Date: early 20th century - mid 20th centuryReference: PP/MEL/L/2/59Part of: Mellanby, Sir Edward