Nursing Exhibitions and Images

Exhibitions

The Many Faced Myths of Nursing

Online exhibition which serves to debunk common misconceptions surrounding nurses:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/2020-florence

1919 Nurses’ Registration Act- ‘Wake up Slackers!’ Online exhibition

This exhibition provides context to understand how nurse’s registration changed and developed the nursing profession:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/wake-up-slackers

Hidden in Plain Sight- Celebrating BAME Nursing History Exhibition, Royal College of Nursing (RCN):

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/diversity-exhibition

Previous events RCN:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/exhibitions-and-events/previous-events

RCN history of nursing forum:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-involved/forums/history-of-nursing-forum

Images

A portrait of a nurse from 1840 which demonstrates the unflattering and disreputable way in which nurses were portrayed and perceived during the better half of the 19^th century:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/h7pbueuh/images?id=p7yb2u3c

Example of what an early ecclesiastical hospital would have looked like in 19^th century France. This particular image is of Hôtel-Dieu and shows nurses (who were nuns) caring for the sick. Early hospitals were run by the church. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/phqrn97k/images?id=wfaegyps

You can find images relating to nurses and nursing through Scran which holds media from museums, galleries, and archives. Scran is a service of the charity Historic Environment Scotland:

https://www.scran.ac.uk/

LHSA has images relating to nurses available through the University of Edinburgh’s Image Collections which you can search using keywords or by hospital:

http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/

LHSA images can also be found on our Flickr page:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49439570@N08/albums