Picturing lives of nurses
Mary Evans Picture Library is hosting the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) archive, a unique collection of photographs capturing British nurses and nursing from the 1900s to the later 20th century. The images come from personal papers, official group photos, records of events such as graduations and prize-givings and studio portraits. The archive includes images from WW1 of invalided soldiers in temporary military hospitals in Britain and France, digitised from glass negatives, along with several photos of the Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers in Brockenhurst in the New Forest. You can search the library at www.maryevans.com
Meanwhile, the RCN has a new exhibition, Hidden in Plain Sight: Celebrating Nursing Diversity, running until 10 March 2018, with a focus on the lives of black and minority ethnic nurses, lesbian nurses and deaf mental health nursing; www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/hidden-in-plain-sight-exhibitionlaunch- for-black-history-month