After Florence Nightingale’s return from Crimea there was a wave of enthusiasm for nurse training, especially among middle class young women. In 1860 the Nightingale School at St Thomas’s Hospital was founded. But by 1862 Liverpool was ready to launch its own school. This talk recounts the history of who, what and how the first students were taught. 

Chris Jones was a nurse academic who worked at Edge Hill University until his retirement in 2016. He has had a wide and varied publishing background, recently focusing on local history, especially as it relates to the health of the city in the 19th century. In his spare time he conducts walks through Liverpool city centre outlining the public health problems of the borough in the Dickensian and Victorian years.

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