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RCN ARCHIVES AND ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
The RCN Archives are a unique record of the development of
the profession of nursing in the United Kingdom.
The Royal College of Nursing was founded in 1916 and the
archives record its role as a professional organisation with international links, as an
educational body providing the first post-registration courses for nurses in the UK, and
as a trade union negotiating, lobbying and campaigning.
The RCN Archives hold the records of other nursing
organisations and of hundreds of individual nurses. These include :
- the Association of Hospital Matrons 1919-1972
- the Society of Registered Male Nurses 1937-1967
- the National Association of State Enrolled Nurses (NASEN)
1948-1970
- nursing badges, including the Meglaughlin collection
(approximately 1000)
- photographs, including the Boardman collection,
(approximately 2000)
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
The RCN Archives has been collecting oral history
interviews with retired nurses for over ten years. The collection, which is always
growing, now numbers 200 interviews recording the lives of nurses and midwives over the
last eighty years in the UK.
CONTACT US
The RCN Archives collects and maintains a resource for
historical scholarship.
We areto researchers Mon-Fri 09.30-16.30 by
appointment.
RCN ARCHIVES
42 South Oswald Road
Edinburgh
EH9 2HH
TEL: 0131 662 1010
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