Nursing Notes & Midwives’ Chronicle, January 1900: The Evolution of a Profession

We welcome the New Year with some extracts from the January 1900 Nursing Notes: A Practical Journal for Nurses and some thoughts on the subject of transition and change. This blog post also contains a selection of photographs of early 20th century midwives from the heritage collections of the Royal College of Midwives. The turn…

The Test of Citizenship: Nursing Notes, September 1914

This post is taken from the September 1914 issue of The Nursing Notes and Midwives Chronicles. This issue of Nursing Notes reflects the impact of the outbreak of the First World War the previous month. On turning the front page the reader finds a statement from the producers of infant dried milk, Glaxo, reassuring customers…