Contributors to the 2024 Bulletin in alphabetical order
Claire Chatterton
Claire Chatterton is a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Chichester and Chester. She is a registered general and mental health nurse and a Fellow of both the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal Historical Society.
Dr Janet Hargreaves
Dr Janet Hargreaves is a retired Professor of Professional Education from the University of Huddersfield. She has a longstanding interest in Nursing History, researching nurse education in the mid-twentieth century for her Dr of Education thesis, gained from the University of Huddersfield in 2006 entitled: The good nurse; discourse and power in nursing and nurse education (1945 -1955). This research led to involvement with the UKAHN committee, and more recently membership of the RCN History of Nursing Forum committee. Publications have included an oral history project with nurses working with Médecins Sans Frontiers, and nurses’ involvement in the republican Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916. Her current research projects are writing a biography of Molly Murphy, a twentieth century nurse, suffragette and socialist, and the history of health and health care in the small coastal resort to which she has retired. email: j.d.hargreaves56@gmail.comI am currently working as a Band 7 nurse in an acute hospital trust where I work within the rehab department.
Dr Antonia Harland-Lang
Dr Antonia Harland-Lang is the Museum and Events Co-ordinator at the Royal College of Nursing. During her time at the RCN, she has led on exhibitions ranging from the history of children and young people’s nursing to the history of nursing support work. Prior to that, she has worked on exhibitions at institutions including the Royal Horticultural Society, Brent Museum and Archives, and the Museum of Oxford.
To find out more about the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum’s programme of events and exhibitions, please visit https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/Exhibitions-and-Events
Wendy Maddocks
Wendy is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Wendy has had a long interest in the history of nurses, and during the Covid 19 pandemic began researching the stories of NZ WW1 in more detail. She is especially interested in their illnesses and welfare during and after service. Wendy has written several articles on this topic and recently published a book about the diary of one nurse. She has also published a book about hospital based training, called The Right Girls
Marnie Taylor
Marine Taylor has an interest in nursing history, especially around military or war settings due to her previous Army service.
Dr Sarah Rogers
After training at The London Hospital, Sarah worked as a District Nurse in Tower Hamlets and Sevenoaks. Following ill-health retirement she completed an MLitt in Local and Family History. In 2018 Sarah co-authored Nursing Through The Years, an oral history of nursing at The London. In 2022 Sarah completed her PhD examining Eva Lückes as a matron maker and her influence on the professionalisation of nursing. Sarah is currently writing Lückes’s biography.
Dr Stuart Wildman
Stuart Wildman is a retired lecturer in nursing having had a career spanning over 38 years in the National Health Service and higher education. During this time he developed expertise in the history of nursing and completed a PhD entitled: Local Nursing Associations in an Age of Nursing Reform, 1860-1900, in 2012. Following retirement he has taken up an appointment as an Honorary Research Fellow, at the University of Birmingham. His research interests focus on the history of nursing and health care, in particular hospital and home nursing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is currently investigating poor law nursing between1834 and 1930.
Dr Stuart Wildman – Department of Applied Health Sciences – University of Birmingham
Dr Gavin Wilk
Gavin Wilk is an historian based in Ireland whose research interests range from American and Irish history to social, cultural, transnational, nursing, immigration, and political studies. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Limerick and was an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Scholar. Gavin also holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Limerick and a BA in History from Villanova University. He is the author of Transatlantic Defiance: The Militant Irish Republican Movement in America, 1923–45 (Manchester University Press, 2014), a book derived from extensive archival research in Ireland, the United States and Britain.
A member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars as well as the Military Welfare History Network, Gavin has presented at conferences throughout the US, Europe and recently in Africa. He appeared in the Irish RTÉ Radio Documentary On One ‘Miss Folan’s Last Wish’, and his work has been published in the UKAHN Bulletin, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, New Hibernia Review and Crime, Law & Social Change, as well as in various reference encyclopaedias. Gavin’s current research interests focus on the transnational philanthropic efforts of individuals associated with the American and British Red Cross during the early years of the First World War.
Email: gavinwilk15@gmail.com
Twitter: @gavinwilk15
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-wilk-073577105
National Coalition of Independent Scholars Profile: https://www.ncis.org/members/gavin-wilk
