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Audio cassettes

46 audio cassettes of recordings of Nurses' League conferences, debates, and related events/interviews. Topics include Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Agenda for Change, the development of nursing in Gaza (Palestine), ICP stroke, Muriel Powell, etc.

Personal artefacts

Personal artefacts presumably donated to the League by nurses, including:

  • 3 metal badges (St George's Hospital, RLOH [Royal Liverpool Orthopaedic Hospital?] cross, IHNCF [Inter-Hospital Nurses' Christian Fellowship]), c.20th century
  • items of cotton/lace nurses' uniforms: 4 belts, 2 cuffs, 5 caps/collars [?], c.20th century

Lists of members

Includes:

  • annotated list of members attending (or invited to?) a League dinner, 24 Apr 1972
  • annotated alphabetical list of members with address details, c.1985

Nurses' League Journal

Nurses' League Journal nos 1-16 (1952-1975) and unnumbered issues for 1978 and 1983. A 1988 letter from Ann M. Hewson has been inserted into the 1964 issue.

Nurses' League Newsletter

Issues of St George's Nurses' League Newsletter for 1971, 1973 and 1976 (unnumbered series); 1996 (no 9); and 1998-2004 (nos 14-18, 20-23, 26). Also includes cover letters to library staff from Honorary Secretary Heather Bond (2000-2004), some of which enclose additional event information.

Photographs

Photographs collected by or donated to the Nurses' League, including:

  • 2 albums of black and white group photographs of trainee nurse cohorts, annotated with surnames, 1952-1977
  • envelope of colour photographs 'taken during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new [Tooting] hospital', with names written on the reverse, c.1963-1964
  • colour photographs of a Nurses' League reunion party, Nov 1987
  • album of colour photographs of meetings of the re-established Nurses' League, annotated with names, 1989-1992 [oversize]
  • two black and white photographs of staff nurse Gaynor Arney and senior outpatients nurse Wendy Miller lighting a candle to mark the relaunch of the Nurses' League, c.1989
  • glassine bag labelled 'From Sue Hawkins 17.2.04' containing colour photographs of an event to commemorate Atkinson Morley Hospital, c.2003
  • Kodak wallet of colour photographs (with Picture CD) of an event to commemorate Muriel Powell held in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 2004
  • 2 yellow slide boxes containing colour slides of Atkinson Morley Hospital buildings, wards and grounds, 1974
  • blue slide box containing black and white and colour slides of nurses, hospital wards [at Atkinson Morley?], vehicles, buildings, maps, etc., c.1970s-1980s [but including reproductions of images c.1940s]
  • set of negatives labelled 'Nurses' League Meeting, Autumn 1990'
  • miscellaneous personal photographs of Sheilagh Hall, Lulu Cassells and Grace Brooks (née Brinsley), and a Nursing Times photograph of nurses with tennis rackets, c.1950s-2013

Programmes and ephemera

Event programmes and miscellaneous ephemera, including:

  • programmes for St George's Day services and other events (including Edward Jenner bicentenary celebrations), 1996-2004
  • programme for 'Nurses Make a Difference to Health Care Delivery' conference organised by the League, 1994
  • information leaflets, c.1990s-2000s
  • reunion lunch invitations, 1992-1993
  • Lanesborough Hotel brochure, c.1999
  • press cuttings relating to nursing, including obituary of Marjorie Jackson, 2002-2003
  • training certificates of Joan Joice Harris with cover letter from her son Roger Marshall and accompanying press cutting, 1938-2004

Muriel Powell memorabilia

Memorabilia relating to Muriel Powell, including:

  • programmes, tickets, press cuttings and correspondence relating to the memorial service for Powell (organised by the League) at St John's Church, Cinderford, 2004
  • text of the address given by Rev. Canon Norman Auton at the original thanksgiving service for Powell in 1979 [printout c.2004]
  • photocopies of obituaries, memorial articles and other ephemera relating to Powell, c.1979-2000s
  • copies of black and white photographs of Powell, including annotated group shots, c.1970s-2000s [though originals date back further]
  • colour photographs of Powell's grave, enclosed in card from Heather Bond, 1999
  • photographs and scans of 'the enamel St George and the Dragon brooch, purchased by Dame Muriel for Olive Walden Jones and now in the possession of Baroness [Audrey] Emerton', c.1990s
  • copy of Powell's book 'Patients are People: Nursing as a Career' (1975) with inserted letter and press cuttings from Sheilagh M. Hall, 1975-2000

Artworks

Artworks collected by or donated to the Nurses' League, including:

  • framed print (plus unframed copy) of engraving of St George's in 1745, originally engraved c.1870 and reissued on the 150th anniversary of the hospital, c.1983
  • framed watercolour by Joyce M. Parker of St George's, Tooting (the old Grove Hospital building), 1981
  • framed pencil drawing by Mary Gliddon of Muriel Powell studying as a nursing student, 1937 [unclear if it was drawn from observation at this date or retrospectively imagined]
  • framed painting by B. [?] Hibbert entitled 'Night Nurse', depicting a nurse at a desk in a ward (inspired by memories of Bristol Royal Infirmary, according to an inscription on the reverse), Jul 1987
  • two ink cartoons by 'Elliott' and one page of ink cartoons by Walter West depicting hospital patients and staff, c.1955
  • signed print (rolled in poster tube) of 'St George's Then & Now', an ink/watercolour painting by Audrey Hammond, commissioned by the Nurses' League in 1993, with accompanying explanatory leaflet

Library stock books

Two notebooks recording numbers of nursing library books/periodicals across the various St George's sites (Hyde Park Corner, Preliminary Training School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Victoria Hospital for Children) from 1957 to 1972. Only the first two pages of the second volume have been written on; the first volume has additional loose pages of notes and publishers' promotional leaflets inserted.

General Nursing

General Nursing Council syllabuses (and accompanying guides and records of practical instruction) for general nursing training, including:

  • Syllabus of Lectures and Demonstrations for Education and Training in General Nursing, 1923
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1952 [two copies: one signed O. (Olive) Walden Jones and the other stamped Kingston Hospital and annotated in pencil]
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1957 reprint
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1959 reprint
  • Guide to the Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1962
  • Guide to the Syllabus of Subjects for General Nurses [GNC for Scotland], 1963
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1964 reprint
  • Training Syllabus and Record of Practical Instruction and Experience (General) for admission to the Roll of Nurses, 1964
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination and Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1969 [partially filled in]
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination and Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1973 reprint
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination and Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1974 reprint
  • Training Syllabus: Register of Nurses / General Nursing, amended 1977 [two variant copies]
  • Training Syllabus: Roll of Nurses / General Nursing, revised 1977
  • Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, nd [c.1960s]

Assistant/pupil nurses

General Nursing Council syllabuses/schedules relating to assistant/pupil nurses, including:

  • Training Syllabus for Admission to the Roll of Assistant Nurses, 1949 [1960 reprint]
  • Training of Pupil Assistant Nurses for Enrolment by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales: Schedule of Practical Ward Work and Ward Instruction in Nursing Observations and General Nursing Care, reprinted 1955

Fever Nursing

General Nursing Council syllabuses for fever nursing, including:

  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate for Fever Nurses, 1923, revised 1935 [1951 reprint]
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Fever Nursing, 1954

Mental Nursing

General Nursing Council syllabuses (and accompanying record of practical instruction) for mental nursing training, including:

  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Mental Nursing, 1952
  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination and Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of Mental Nursing, 1974
  • Training Syllabus for Admission to the Roll of Nurses: Mental Nursing, revised 1977
  • Training Syllabus: Register of Nurses / Mental Nursing, 1982
  • Syllabus of Training: Professional Register – Part 3 (Registered Mental Nurse), 1982

Mental Deficiency Nursing

General Nursing Council syllabuses for mental deficiency/subnormality [note: these are historical terms] nursing training, including:

  • Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Mental Deficiency Nursing, 1952
  • Training Syllabus for Admission to the Roll of Nurses: Mental Subnormality Nursing, revised 1977

Nursing Sick Children

General Nursing Council syllabus entitled 'Syllabus of Subjects for Examination for the Certificate of Nursing Sick Children' [two copies, one with minor pencil annotations]

The Dragon

Set of issues of The Dragon, an apparently short-lived magazine for St George's nurses (c.1928-1929) which published comic verse and prose as well as internal news. Includes issues 1-2 and 4-5 of vol. 1, though it is unclear if a vol. 2 was ever produced; issue no 5 includes a crossword which has been filled in.

St George's District School of Nursing Newsletter

Set of issues of the St George's District School of Nursing (which became St George's and Roehampton College of Nursing and Midwifery in 1991) Newsletter, which was published c.1986-1991 and edited by tutor librarian Jean Yeoh. Includes issues 1-20, 23, and 25-26 (the last two of which are in A4 format, in contrast to the A5 used previously).

Kingston & St George's Faculty News

Three issues (vol. 1, nos 7-8, Jul-Aug 1996; vol. 2, no 1, Jan 1997) of Kingston University & St George's Hospital Medical School Faculty News, subtitled 'Newsletter and Diary for the Faculty of Healthcare Sciences'

Journal articles

Copies of various journal articles written by or about St George's Hospital staff, including:

  • Dent, Clinton T., 'History of Nursing at St George's Hospital' (St George's Hospital Gazette, 1894) [copy of a typed transcript, c. mid-20th century]
  • Greene, John, 'Famous Nursing Leaders: Dame Muriel Powell' (History of Nursing Journal, vol. 4, no 2, 1992/93) [includes copy of whole journal issue as well as copy of article alone]
  • McKissock, Wylie & Lawrence Walsh, 'Subarachnoid Haemorrhage due to Intracranial Aneurysms' (reprinted from British Medical Journal, 8 Sep 1956)
  • Penman, John & L. S. Walsh, 'Great Auricular Neurotomy for Tic Douloureux' (reprinted from British Medical Journal, 5 Jan 1957)
  • Walsh, L. S., 'Subarachnoid Haemorrhage' (Acta Radiologica, Jul-Aug 1956)

Lecture texts

Copies of the texts of several lectures, including:

  • G. I. A. D. Draper, 'The Historical Background and General Principles of The Geneva Conventions of 1949' ('A Lecture delivered on Red Cross Day 1957', published by British Red Cross Society)
  • Kathleen A. Raven, 'War and Peace' (Royal College of Nursing, 8 Jun 1995)
  • Kenneth Stowe, 'Government and Health: Wisdom and Excellence' ('Lecture given to the University of Liverpool on 16 March 1985 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the medical school')

Kingston lecture notes

Typed and annotated lecture notes (stamped 'Kingston County Hospital, Kingston-on-Thames') on nursing subjects, including artificial feeding, bedmaking, baths, enemas, etc.

Observation charts

Set of 10 boards (and one piece of card) with patient observation charts – recording temperature, pulse rate, and respiration – affixed to one or both sides. Six of the boards have additional labels stating the disease of the patient (e.g. scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid, miliary tuberculosis, etc.), indicating that they were used to illustrate characteristic temperature patterns.

Slides

Plastic slide box containing 17 colour slides – apparently a commercially produced set – of patients in hospital beds (each image numbered and labelled with the patient's condition), and a further two slides of diagrams of the human heart (labelled 'St James' Hospital Photographic Department').

Note that the St James' slides were originally loose in the collection, but have been added to this slide box by the archivist for convenience of storage: no direct connection with the other slides should be inferred.

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