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The sixth Art of Nursing Webinar, in partnership with Foundation of Nursing Studies, celebrated the launch of a new exhibition at the 绿帽换妻.

The 绿帽换妻 Library and Museum's new major exhibition presents art by and about nurses - revealing how they have been mythologised, frequently as saints, angels and heroes, usually as female, predominantly as white.

This webinar explores the exhibition themes of creativity, resistance and renewal in more depth, bringing together exhibition curator Kate Forde, Dr. Marion Lynch, Freya Bently and contributing artists Charlotte Mann and Beatrice Ogbekhiulu.

This event was held in July 2025.

An online talk on the history of women in the police service and the role of nursing in forensics.

In this online talk, Louise Jackson outlines the history of these nurses (and others) in the police service, while Gethin Rees explains the recent development of Forensic Nurse Examiners in Britain and Karen Swinson explores the introduction of custody nursing from 1999. The event was chaired by Claire Chatterton.

This event was held online in June 2025.

From enemy alien to valued worker: Jewish refugees and their nursing lives during the Second World War.

The Annual 绿帽换妻 History of Nursing Forum lecture by Dr Jane Brooks explores the experiences and feelings of refugee nurses. They were designated ‘enemy aliens’, dismissed and interned, only to be invited back into nursing a few months later. Brooks exposes the opportunism of the Government and nursing profession as more nurses were needed to care for the sick and injured and the refugees' growing sense of worth as they supported the Allied war effort against the Nazis. She considers the young women’s nursing wartime work, as they re-evaluated their lives from victims of a murderous regime to valued members of a vital war-time profession.

This event was held in June 2025.

An online talk on the history of maternal health and women campaigners in the prison system.

It was the poor standards of maternity care in women鈥檚 prisons that led to the introduction of the first trained nurses to Holloway Prison in 1919. In this talk, Rachel Bennett outlines the history of maternal health in the prison system, while Ian Miller explores another side of women鈥檚 health: the experience of women鈥檚 rights campaigners and others on hunger strike in prisons.

This was an online event held in May 2025.

The fifth Art of Nursing Webinar, in partnership with Foundation of Nursing Studies, looked at the art of hearing silenced voices, in particular of young people and people seeking asylum.

Speakers included Jemma Channing, Christina Gabbitas, Dr Val Huet, Dr Marie Clancy and Dr Marion Lynch.

This event was held online in May 2025.

This panel discussion was part of the launch event for our new exhibition on the history of prison nursing, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

It features chair Liz Walsh and speakers Ann Norman, Sobanan Narenthiren and Donna Goddard who discuss the past, present and future of prison health.

This event was held in-person and online in April 2025.

The fourth Art of Nursing Webinar, in partnership with Foundation of Nursing Studies, looks at how arts can enhance nursing education. 

These webinars showcase how nurses and artists are working together to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The speakers featured in this session are Professor Victoria Ridgway (Associate Dean at Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society, University of Chester), Andy Farr (artist and University of Nottingham PhD student), Dr Elaine Ryan-Neil (Creative Health Associate, North West National Centre for Creative Health) and Dr Marion Lynch.

This event was held online in March 2025.

Watch artist Lisa Gornick's live drawing show, an art performance delving into nursing and the climate crisis.

An innovative form of storytelling, Lisa drew and chatted about material from workshops she’s led with nurses. Using a mixture of gentle comedy and poignant storytelling, this is DIY cinema with a difference!

The performance uses drawings submitted by nurses and the public over the last few months, exploring our hopes and fears for the future, and what needs to change in healthcare to address the climate emergency.

This was a hybrid event held in March 2025.

In conversation with nursing pioneers brings together 绿帽换妻 Fellows and women’s health experts to explore how nurses have led change

Health outcomes remain poor for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller, BME (Black & minority ethic) and marginalised women.
The panel will argue that this is because women’s health, including maternity, has been underfunded and stigmatised. It has been seen as dirty nursing. The women’s health strategy (2024) is an opportunity to address this historical underfunding and stigma but the jury is out on how effective this policy will be in addressing systemic problems in women’s health.

This event was recorded in March 2025.

 

An online talk on the history of air pollution and the origins of the role of occupational health nurses.


Since the industrial revolution, rising air pollution has had a devasting effect on human health. Today, it contributes to 36,000 deaths a year in the UK. Join scientist Peter Brimblecombe and public health nurse Tracey Cooke to explore the history of air pollution from factories to the ‘Great Smog of London’ alongside the role industrial nurses have played in public health.


This event was held online in January 2025

Join us for the third Art of Nursing webinar to hear how artists are helping health.

Are the voices of health service users really heard or reduced to feedback with some voices silenced by assumptions or misinterpretation? Many people say yes. We ask how can the arts help? The arts have always raised erased voices and views.

This webinar brings person centredness to life in an artful way. Designed and delivered by artists and experts by experience from health and arts charities we showcase examples of how the artists and the arts are part of health.

Led by Dr Marion Lynch. Partners and speakers are the charities FONS and Paintings in Hospitals, the 绿帽换妻, and artists Jolie Goodman and Daniel Regan.

This event was recorded in January 2025

Join us for the launch of our new exhibition on nursing in the climate crisis.

Hear from experts on health and climate change: Professor Rupert Read (co-director of the Climate Majority Project), Richard Smith (UK Health Alliance on Climate Change), Clare Nash (senior nurse leader and sustainability procurement lead) and Rose Gallagher (绿帽换妻 Professional Lead for Sustainability). 

This event was held in person in November 2024

Listen to the second Art of Nursing Webinar, to hear how nurses can work with patients and partners in health and the arts to address the climate crisis. 

These webinars are in partnership with Foundation of Nursing Studies and showcase how nurses and artists are working together to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Together, we are nursing the planet!

This event was recorded in November 2024.

This event was an online talk on the history of mental health care and nursing support.

Before 1891, nursing staff in psychiatric hospitals received no formal training and were expected to learn on the job. 

Hear from Professor Claire Chatterton as she explores the history of "asylum attendants," and explains how registered nurses and staff without formal training continued to work alongside each other well into the twentieth century. We then hear from modern day mental health support workers, leaving us to reflect on what we can learn from this history.

This event was held in October 2024,

Join us for the Annual History of Nursing Forum lecture with Professor Christine Hallett reflecting on 30 years in Nursing History.

In this controversial and thought-provoking lecture, Christine Hallett reflects on her career in Nursing History. She uses the concept of power as a lens through which to analyse both the nature of nursing and the dilemmas faced by those who write its history. Christine presents narratives which explore the personal power of individual nurses 鈥� ranging from the famous and the infamous to the largely-forgotten. She also traces the ebb and flow of collective power within what has long been the largest, and yet (politically) the weakest, profession in the United Kingdom.

This event was held in October 2024

Hear from crime novelist Julie Anderson, as she explores how an historic hospital, run by women for women, inspired her new novel.

Set in 1964, The Midnight Man takes place at the South London Hospital for Women and Children, which was the largest hospital of its kind in the UK, founded and staffed entirely by women. Julie delves in the history of this 'forgotten' hospital, its early days, and its controversial end.

This event was held online in September 2024.

This event focuses on the escalating crisis of recruitment and retention in nursing, nationally and globally.

We will share ideas about what the profession itself can do to attract and keep new nursing recruits, and when we need to push for government support. In an era of unprecedented and growing pressures on healthcare systems and changing expectations of work in younger generations, the situation facing nursing is more urgent than ever.

This event was held in September 2024.

This event was a talk on on the overlooked Voluntary Aid Detachment nursing support workforce in a Pennine mill town.

Traditionally VADs are portrayed as selfless, middle class 鈥榣adies', who rushed off to the front risking life and limb to assist professional nurses in the trenches. But is this the full picture of members of the Voluntary Aid Detachments? In this talk, which introduces an overlooked (and less glamourous) group of nearly 100,000 women who 鈥榮tayed behind鈥�, Sue Hawkins explores one military hospital, based in the Pennine mill town of Holmfirth, to persuade you that the VAD cohort was much broader.

This event was held in July 2024.

This event was a roundtable on the history of workhouse nursing.

Join Stuart Wildman and Rachel Kidd to discuss the experiences of nurses in workhouses, Long before the founding of the NHS, many people who were destitute turned to workhouses because of illness, old age, disability, mental illness, or as a safe place to give birth. By the middle of the 19th century, society was rocked by a number of workhouse scandals involving the care of the sick and many working-class people feared admission to the workhouse. The day-to-day care of sick and vulnerable inmates was dependent upon the quality of the nursing staff, and in most places, this improved steadily over time.

This event was held in May 2024.

For Dying Matters Week 2024, we look at the past, present and future of end of life care.

From the holistic view of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual pain developed by Cicely Saunders in 1964 to the true modern-day story of Lesley and her husband Seth Goodburn who died just 33 days after diagnosis with pancreatic cancer, we explore the importance of compassionate, patient and family-centred care.

The event is chaired by Anita Hayes, Head of Clinical Leadership at Hospice UK.

This event was held in May 2024.

In this event, award-winning mental health nurse and global health consultant Dorcas Gwata speaks about her new book: 'Street Clinic.'

Gwata guides us into London鈥檚 bloodied streets, inviting us into her world, to witness her work with young people who are highly exposed to violence by virtue of where they live and who they go to school with. By meeting young people on their level, on the street and on their terms, and by talking to them in a language they understand, Gwata reveals how innovative nursing can help young people and families to work through trauma, depression and anxiety towards better outcomes.

This event was held in April 2024.

This 绿帽换妻 Fellows event, chaired by the Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization, explores the future of nursing globally.

Ever since Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, nurses have blazed a trail in healthcare. They have pioneered improvements in practice, carried out cutting-edge research and advanced education. This event focuses on the future of the nursing workforce on a global stage. Join a panel of 绿帽换妻 Fellows to explore the state of the world鈥檚 nursing, how nursing jobs can be sustainably created and effectively recruited, and the ethical management of international mobility and migration.

This event was held in March 2024

Find out about Irish nurses who served at home and abroad during the Second World War.

Se谩n Graffin, 绿帽换妻 Northern Ireland History of Nursing Network member, discusses how he has collated a database of over 600 Irish nurses which will be available on the website of the Public Records office of Northen Ireland (PRONI). Margaret Graham talks through the stories of some of these nurses from a new book, Nurses鈥� Voices from the Second World War: the Ireland Connection.

This event was held in January 2024

Young people's experience of illness (BSL interpreted)

Join us in the beautiful Cowdray Hall at the 绿帽换妻 for a very special night of poetry and conversation. Hear the first performance of a new work by spoken word artist (and nurse) Molly Case, inspired by research on children and young people鈥檚 experiences of cancer and sickle cell disease since 1945; join researchers and nurses in discussion about childhood illness and care, past and present; and take in a brand-new exhibition on the history of children鈥檚 nursing. Please note that this event includes discussion of illness and bereavement.

This event was filmed in November 2023.

To celebrate the launch of 'Once Upon a Time, A history of children and young people's nursing', the 绿帽换妻 held an evening of speakers and activities.

Speakers included:

Professor Alan Glasper: A children's and young people's nurse with longstanding interests in healthcare for children.

Professor Bernie Carter: A professor of nursing at Edge Hill University. Her research focuses on children and young people with complex needs.

Kate Pye: Deputy Director for CYP Nursing with NHS England and Deputy Chair for the Associatio