@FirstAidHistory

Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Project on History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909-1989 led by @RosieCresswell & @profbarrydoyle

 Hull and Huddersfield
Joined April 2016
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Found some pics in an album from Malton North Yorks of VAD nurses and patients from Ashfield VAD Hospital. The nurse is Elsie Henderson whose dad managed Leefe's Jewellers in the Market Place. Soldiers unknown @MaltonMuseum @visitmalton
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I recently wrote a thing together with @profbarrydoyle and you can read it for free: "Imperial and Post-Imperial Healthcare before Welfare States" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @ERHistory #ComparativeHistory #GlobalHistory #Healthcare #WelfareStates #HistMed #CoAuthoring🧵1/

Imperial and post-imperial healthcare before welfare states

The goal of this special issue is to connect work done in colonial and post-colonial history and in European history through a focus on imperial and post-imperial healthcare. To date, imperial and ...

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LJMU History@LJMUhistory25 Apr 2022
Really excited to announce the launch of Dr Susan Grant's forthcoming book, 'Soviet Nightingales'. Join us on Thursday 5 May from 6.30pm.
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📣 Current and former Cadets: can you help? 📣 The @stjohnambulance Cadets will be turning 💯 in 2022. We're finalising a new display to celebrate and we want to hear from Cadets from all over the world. 🌏 Find out how you can contribute 👇 ow.ly/VW6u50DrvgF Please RT!
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Soviet Visuals@sovietvisuals17 Oct 2020
"Red Army" Soviet children's book illustrated by Alexander Deineka, 1929
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The cfp for the @HospitalHistori conference on Hospitals and Space is now available to read here. Closing dates for abstracts is 30 September 2020. 300 words in English plus a short bio. bmdoyleblog.wordpress.com/20…

Call for Papers, Space and the Hospital: International Network for the History of Hospitals...

     Hosted by: ‘Hospitalis: Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity’ Research Project and the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos, Lisbon, Portugal Hospital Real de Todos…

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Today is the 150th birthday of @BritishRedCross. I've been honoured to contribute by talking about my forthcoming @BloomsburyAcad History of the British Red Cross on @timesradio, and to the redcross.org.uk/150voices exhibition (Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund).
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Henry Irving@drhenryirving25 Jun 2020
Ignore the featured image! It’s still good to see the @HistoryPolicy paper I wrote alongside @FirstAidHistory @profbarrydoyle @shane_ewen @illegalmarkets @charltommo and @M_Wiggam featured in print. Just imagine it with a nice propaganda photo instead. yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/peo…
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Third and final episode of Pandemic 1918 made by @mimproductions for @BBCRadio4 and featuring lots of brilliant historians including @milnem @ProfKarenSayer @MBresalier @honigsbaum as well as me bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jhn…

BBC Radio 4 - Pandemic 1918, Episode 3 - The long-term impact

Virologist Professor John Oxford charts the spread and impact of the 1918-19 flu pandemic.

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I am really pleased to be involved in this new @BBCRadio4 @mimproductions series on the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Lots of great experts, brilliant sources and a global and local perspective. @HistoryatHud @mhmhudds @WeLoveResearch @HudUniPR bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j2…

Pandemic 1918 - Episode 1 - Origins, symptoms and spread - BBC Sounds

Virologist Professor John Oxford charts the spread and impact of the 1918-19 flu pandemic.

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Today 1940, Llandudno's new Red Cross ambulance was unveiled at a special ceremony. This photograph was taken at West Shore in 1943 after the Llandudno team won the Caernarvonshire stretcher bearing contest, beating Penmaenmawr into second place.
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PPE in PPE@PPEinPPE1 May 2020
Thread on the history of breathing equipment: the history of the mask is also the cultural history of the body, amongst other things
PPE in PPE@PPEinPPE6 Feb 2020
Replying to @PPEinPPE
On the 1971 International Himalayan Expedition, an expedition to Everest that celebrated its collaborative and global climbing credentials, organisers took two kinds of face masks from the U.S. Air Force marked "Caucasian" and "Oriental"…
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The opening of the new #NightingaleHospital has made me think about current hospital policy and how that relates to the Emergency Hospital Service of the Second World war. bmdoyleblog.wordpress.com/20…
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History & Policy@HistoryPolicy3 Apr 2020
On 25 March @drhenryirving @illegalmarkets @profbarrydoyle @RosieCresswell @shane_ewen @M_Wiggam held a roundtable on the real lessons of the Blitz for the #COVID19 crisis. This paper, with recommendations for local/national govt, is the result: historyandpolicy.org/policy-…
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Luke Tester@Luke_Tester26 Mar 2020
Great to see @stjohnambulance on ITV, with a full interview tonight at 19:30. We’re: 🏨 Supporting A&E departments and hospital wards with volunteers 🚑 Providing dozens of additional volunteer ambulances across the country ⬆️ Recruiting, upskilling and ramping up for more #NHS
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Liana Ghukasyan@LianaGhukasyan22 Mar 2020
Do you know @ifrc was established in 1919 after #Cannes Conference which ‘gave an impetus to int’l recognition of nursing profession by establishing universal programme of nursing care". After 100 years #RedCross #RedCrescent is again on the front line of a health emergency.
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Georgina Brewis@ProfGinaB3 Feb 2020
Please help! Any #twitterstorians or other users of #archives want to share stories of records & collections relating to history of #charity, #voluntary organisations or #NGOs. Looking for case studies for @BritishAcademy_ project website rebrand: voluntarysectorarchives.org.…
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A First Aid booklet donated to the Museum just before we formally opened (from A&E at @WorcsAcuteNHS). It's dated 18th September 1942. #FirstAid @BritishRedCross @FirstAidHistory #HistMed
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Dr Stephen Etheridge@DrGtrombone1 Jan 2020
First Aid History from Bacup, East Lancashire. @profbarrydoyle
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Unexpected@UnexpectedPod29 Oct 2019
The constituent Conference which saw the creation of the founding charter of the Red Cross happened #OnThisDay in 1863. For more on the Red Cross during World War II why not check out our fab magazine post by @historyplymouth intern Corey Watson historiesoftheunexpected.com…
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