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The Art of Nursing: Creativity, Resistance, Renewal
Discover art by and about nurses over the last 150 years.
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Prison Nursing in our Historic Collections
This April, we’re excited to launch a new exhibition exploring the history of nursing in prisons and criminal justice settings. As part of our preparations, we recently delved into key items from our Nursing History Collection.
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New spotlight display: 'Infection and Injustice: A Brief History of Tuberculosis in the UK'
You can view the display, showcasing the past and present of the world’s deadliest infectious disease, on the lower ground floor of the Library and Museum now.
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Calling all artists for nursing and art exhibition
In June 2025 we will launch an exhibition of art by and about nurses. We want to hear from you if you are a practicing artist or know someone who is.
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Making the Rounds: Stories of Workhouse Nurses told in Textiles
This textile art exhibition explores the lives and living conditions of workhouse nurses at the former Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse (Gressenhall). It is based on a collaboration between Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, museum volunteers and artist Connie Flynn.
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Spotlight on ... the Royal Marsden Manual Online
Access to the Royal Marsden Manual is part of your membership. This comprehensive manual covers a wide range of clinical and cancer nursing procedures in easy to follow guides.
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Major review of the library’s lending collection
This summer we've reviewed our lending collection. We've assessed thousands of books to make sure the collection holds only the most up to date content on nursing.
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Explore the RCN Library and Museum’s exhibitions this autumn
If you are sad about summer slowly ending, don’t despair! At the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum in London we have now returned to autumn opening hours and are back on Saturdays. So why not visit one of our exhibitions?
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Struggling to find those article references? Wondering how to search for eBooks?
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‘Truthfulness, honesty, and kindliness of heart…’ a treasure for our Nursing History Collection
This new addition to the Nursing History Collection was written by a missionary who founded the London Bible and Domestic Female Mission, and who started training ‘bible-women nurses’ in 1868. This book published seven years into her work gives a first-hand account of her process to train nurses.
