The Nottingham branch of the UK Nurses Association of Jamaica emerged in the early 1980s and has made a significant contribution to the lives of BAME nurses and the wider community. This blog explo…

In 1959, Dee O'Hara became the first staff nurse for Project Mercury, NASA's first human spaceflight program. Throughout the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, she worked closely with NASA astronau...

Isabella Liddle was an early state registered nurse with an entry on the 1922 Register.  She was Matron of Nottingham General Hospital for 17 years (1924-1941).   Liddle was instrumental in foundin…

Starting out as a Sister on a Typhoid ward at Nottingham General Hospital, Minnie Drakard went on to have a distinguished career as Matron at Plaistow Fever Hospital and she had a lifelong commitme…

Frances Ellen Dwight trained as a workhouse nurse and completed 33 years continuous service for the Nottingham Poor Law Union. She was superintendent nurse and then a matron of the Nottingham Workh…

Gertrude Sheila Mills (known as Sheila) trained as a nurse and midwife.  She was Assistant Matron at Nottingham Women’s Hospital from 1962 until the 1980s, a period leading up to the relocation of …

Online talk exploring the UK's recruitment of Nigerian student nurses to address post-war health care shortages from 1940-1960.

In this article, David Stewart examines the life and career of an early nurse, Phoebe Wells Tether, born in Edwinstowe, North Nottinghamshire, who became Superintendent Nurse at the famous Grove Ha…