Amy Edwards – Page 60 – Student Shout Out

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society in-person talk: Dr Michael Lambert (Lancaster University), Cheshire Children’s Department, 1948-1971

Start Date: 5 February 2025 4:00 pm

End Date: 5 February 2025 5:00 pm

Location: CRV119, Wheeler

This talk provides a history of children’s services in Cheshire from their creation under the 1948 Children Act until their abolition with the establishment of unified social services departments in 1970. Created to serve the best interests of the child, it explores the rise and fall of specialised social work practice for children in a local authority marked by extremes of poverty and affluence, divisions between urban and rural areas, reshaped by slum clearance and overspill from Liverpool and Manchester, and underlying tensions between elected politicians and senior officials. Using individual social work case files, local authority records, and central government reports and correspondence, this talk offers a perspective of social work with children and families during the height of the post-war welfare state.

Michael Lambert is Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation at Lancaster University. He is a historian of the welfare state in twentieth-century Britain and its Empire, using sociological approaches to understand social and health policy-making and implementation, along with the impacts of these upon people, organisations, and society. His research uses qualitative and quantitative approaches, with considerable experience in using archival, documentary and organisation records, combined with elite and popular oral interviews. He has a particular interest in place, focusing upon Liverpool, Merseyside and the North West of England.

All are welcome to attend the in-person talks free of charge. Booking is encouraged for refreshment and seating purposes and in case there are any last-minute changes (contact details below). Please check the event listings for updates to the programme: www.chester.ac.uk/events (scroll down to see the individual events). Access to the Riverside Museum and event venues is via a flight of steps and lift/step access thereafter. For those with limited mobility, there is an accessible route and please pre-book to arrange this access.fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or 01244 512126

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Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society in-person talk: Mike Sinnott, ‘The Pox Doctor’s Assistant’: The early days of HIV/AIDS in Chester

Start Date: 6 November 2024 4:00 pm

End Date: 6 November 2024 5:00 pm

Location: CRV119, Wheeler

Mike Sinnott will explore the development of HIV/AIDS through drawing upon his experiences working as an HIV/AIDS Counsellor at Chester Royal Infirmary in the 1980s and early 1990s. He will reflect on how the disease developed into a worldwide pandemic, the particular emphasis on health promotion in this field, the response of the health service and the impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. Stigma continues to be associated with HIV and AIDS and this was especially true 50 years ago. As a result, he will create a picture of stigma in the late 1980s, not just in relation to the disease, but with the risk groups affected and the impact on people’s lives, including their partners and families. Finally, Mike will ask the question: What have we learned in patient involvement and the treatment of individuals?

Mike qualified in Ireland in 1983 as a mental health nurse. With an interest in substance misuse, he moved to London in 1985 to work in a drug unit, then moved to Newcastle upon Tyne as a community psychiatric nurse in drugs and alcohol. In 1987 he was appointed by Chester Health Authority as an HIV/AIDS counsellor based at Chester Royal Infirmary, one of the first such posts outside London. This led to managing the Regional Drug and Alcohol Service in Chester. Other appointments include managing community mental health services in Chester and Wirral, commissioning mental health and substance misuse, learning disabilities and prison health care and the role of general manager of mental health. His final NHS role was Director of Mental Health in North Wales. Retiring from the NHS in 2014 he worked in consultancy and as an inspector with the Care Quality Commission and Health Improvement Wales.

fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or 01244 512126

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Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society in-person talk: Professor Tim Grady, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Chester, Dying with the Enemy: German War Deaths in First World War Britain

Start Date: 4 December 2024 4:00 pm

End Date: 4 December 2024 5:00 pm

Location: CRV119, Wheeler

The First World War was always much more than just a history of errant generals or waterlogged trenches on the Western Front, the conflict itself also took place on the British home front. This talk explores two often overlooked aspects of the war at home. The first of these is the history of combat and military death on British soil. The second concerns the experience of the enemy – German and Austro-Hungarians – who lost their lives in wartime Britain either in combat or captivity. As the talk explores, these soldiers (and civilians) were once buried in cemeteries throughout the UK, including in Chester. The very presence of the deceased enemy in local communities encouraged discussions between the British and Germans even as the conflict raged.

Professor Tim Grady has written two books on the history of Germany in the First World War and has also published widely on twentieth-century Jewish history. He is currently exploring the themes of war, occupation and the environment. His research interests, which are fairly wide ranging, focus on the workings of memory, Jewish/non-Jewish relations in twentieth century Germany, the Holocaust, the First World War and more recently the environment in both East and West Germany.

fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or 01244 512126

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Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society in-person talk: Chris Jones, Edge Hill University, Mary Merryweather – Nursing pioneer and proto feminist

Start Date: 2 October 2024 4:00 pm

End Date: 2 October 2024 5:00 pm

Location: CRV355, Wheeler

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.

fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or 01244 512126

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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 4 June 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 4 June 2025 4:00 pm

Location: Riverside Museum, Wheeler

Based at the University’s Wheeler Building on Castle Drive, the Riverside Museum contains a permanent collection of curiosities from the world of medicine, nursing, midwifery and social work, in addition to an original letter written by Florence Nightingale from Balaclava.

The First World War: Returning Home exhibition provides an insight into what a soldier invalided back from the Front would have found on his return to Cheshire. Using local examples wherever possible, the exhibition covers aspects such as medical advances, the psychological effects of war, volunteering and volunteer nurses, a doctor’s country practice, home life, working women and social welfare. This exhibition has been created by the FHMS Historical Society volunteers and refurbished with the generous help of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Heritage.

Visitors with an interest in health and social care or local and social history are always welcome to visit the Museum free of charge and find out more from the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society volunteers, many of whom have a healthcare background.

The Museum is free of charge and there is no need to book for the standard opening times. However, group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement.

Access to the Riverside Museum is via a flight of steps and lift/step access thereafter. For those with limited mobility, there is an accessible route and please pre-book to arrange this access. fhsc.histsoc@chester.ac.uk or 01244 512126

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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 7 May 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 7 May 2025 4:00 pm

Location: Riverside Museum, Wheeler

The Museum is free of charge and there is no need to book for the standard opening times. However, group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement.

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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 2 April 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 2 April 2025 4:00 pm

Location: Riverside Museum, Wheeler

The Museum is free of charge and there is no need to book for the standard opening times. However, group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement.

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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 5 March 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 5 March 2025 4:00 pm

Location: Riverside Museum, Wheeler

The Museum is free of charge and there is no need to book for the standard opening times. However, group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement.

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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 5 February 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 5 February 2025 4:00 pm

Location: Riverside Museum, Wheeler

The Museum is free of charge and there is no need to book for the standard opening times. However, group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement.

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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 8 January 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 8 January 2025 4:00 pm

Location: Riverside Museum, Wheeler

The Museum is free of charge and there is no need to book for the standard opening times. However, group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement.

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