Programme

Keynote Address - 'The Lost Art of Nursing Revisited':

Chair: Dr Richard Bates, University of Nottingham

Presenter: Professor Christine Hallett, University of Huddersfield

Panel session 1 – Infancy and Insanity:

Chair: Dr David Beckingham, University of Nottingham

Presenters:

• Dr Claire Chatterton, Open University – ‘Town versus gown? Oxford and its mental health institutions. 1826-1948’
• Morag Allan-Campbell, University of St Andrews – ‘‘Circumstances somewhat peculiar’: Diagnosis and treatment of puerperal insanity in two Scottish asylums 1840-1860’
• Sarah Rafferty, University of Cambridge – ‘Infant mortality decline in London, 1891-1911: an exploratory spatial analysis of patterns and determinants’

Panel session 2 – Nurses and Infirmaries:

Chair: Dr Sarah Holland, University of Nottingham

Presenters:

• Professor Alannah Tomkins, Keele University – ‘Nursing the Provincial Infirmary to 1820’
• Professor Susan Hogan, University of Derby – ‘Was Nightingale a Feminist?’
• Janet Overfield-Shaw, Southwell Workhouse - 'The Workhouse and the Infirmary Nurses: The efficacy of national and regional initiatives on local provision. 1871-1980s'

Panel session 3 - Politics of Care:

Chair: Dr Jonathan Memel, University of Nottingham

Presenters

• Dr Steven Thompson, Aberystwyth University – ‘Locating Health in a Different Language: Healthcare and the Welsh Language 1840-1914’

• Dr Sally Frampton, University of Oxford – The Political Geography of the First Aid Movement (title TBC)

• Frances Cadd, University of Nottingham – ‘The March of the Masked Nurses’: The fight to remedy the conditions of nurses in 1930s Britain’

Workshop Close and wine reception