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Join Hedgehog Friendly Campus for our first litter pick of the season! 

Start Date: 18 November 2025 11:00 am

End Date: 18 November 2025 12:00 pm

Location: Exton Park

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Come meet us outside Binks Building in Exton Park on Tuesday 18th November from 11-12pm, where we will greet you and give you the kit and instructions to help us maintain the area litter-free for our prickly friends and local wildlife. It is a great chance to meet people sharing a passion for nature, as well as taking environmental action at your doorstep. 

If you are interested to join, please sign up here. Looking forward to seeing you all!

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’From Far and Wide’: Health and Social Care Workers from Overseas

Start Date: 6 May 2026 4:30 pm

End Date: 6 May 2026 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV139

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Refreshments available from 4pm

Currently, one in five NHS staff are non-UK nationals and since the launch of the NHS in 1948, workers from overseas have played a pivotal role. Healthcare workers in the NHS currently come from over 200 countries and a similar picture exists amongst the social care workforce.

Come and celebrate their achievements and hear from some of the health and social care workers who have come from across the world to work in the NHS and social care.

The University Choir, under the direction of Matt Baker, hope to perform part of his recent work, ‘Wings of the Sky’.
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Workers with ‘necks as white as snow’: Macclesfield Baths and Washhouses in the Nineteenth Century

Start Date: 4 March 2026 4:00 pm

End Date: 4 March 2026 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV012

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Dr Sarah Griffiths, Managing Editor, University of Chester Press

A key part of the national campaign to improve sanitary conditions in urban areas was the national public baths and washhouses movement and this resulted in the Public Baths and Wash-houses Acts of 1846 and 1847. Macclesfield had grown to become the leading centre of the English silk industry by the mid nineteenth century, which led to severe pressure on the town’s services. Macclesfield’s Baths and Washhouses opened in 1850 and so it was one of the first provincial towns after Liverpool to gain these facilities. This talk will explore the baths and washhouses movement, the impact of industrialisation on Macclesfield, the history of the town’s Baths and Washhouses and the many people involved in its development.

All are welcome to attend these in-person talks. 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 event venue is via a flight of steps. 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 512963.
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Less than Splendid Isolation: An Exploration of the Rise and Demise of England’s Fever Hospitals

Start Date: 3 June 2026 4:00 pm

End Date: 3 June 2026 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV012

Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead, University of Chester

Our interest in the 1918-20 flu pandemic (Spanish flu) would re-emerge a century later when we turned back to history to seek ways to overcome another global pandemic. Improvements in housing and sanitation, immunisation and antibiotics have all contributed to the decline in infectious diseases, but for previous generations, death from fevers was not uncommon, and fever hospitals were built throughout the country. In 1914 there were 755 fever hospitals in the UK treating and nursing up to 3000 patients with a variety of infectious diseases including tuberculosis, diphtheria, smallpox, typhus and from Spanish flu. This paper explores the rise and demise of fever (latterly known as isolation) hospitals, the people who worked there, patients and the surrounding communities, including Cheshire and the city of Chester.

All are welcome to attend these in-person talks. 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 event venue is via a flight of steps. 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 512963.
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Experimentations with Narrative Voice: The Gothic and the Desire for Social Reform in The Story of Willie Ellin (1853) and Jane Eyre (1847)

Start Date: 4 February 2026 4:00 pm

End Date: 4 February 2026 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV012

Chloe Roberts, MBChB Student Engagement and Support Officer, University of Chester

The Story of Willie Ellin (1853) remains a neglected facet of Charlotte Brontë’s repertoire, with the unfinished fragment demonstrating stylistic links to Jane Eyre (1847) and her juvenilia through the core theme of child abuse. The Story of Willie Ellin combines Gothic features with brutal realism, creating an imagined world in which societal failings in social welfare can be criticised. Through the voice of a genderless ghost and the third-person narration of the abused protagonist, Brontë constructs a voice for the marginalised children of Victorian society, while demonstrating an understanding of the restrictions faced by female authors. This talk will discuss Brontë’s use of narrative voice in The Story of Willie Ellin (alongside a few of her other stories) to create a social commentary that would have defied the gendered criticisms of her earlier works if it had only been given the chance to reach publication.

All are welcome to attend these in-person talks. 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 event venue is via a flight of steps. 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 512963.
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The Strangers’ Friends Societies: Methodism’s Response 1785-1840 to the Challenges of Urban Poverty and Disease

Start Date: 3 December 2025 4:00 pm

End Date: 3 December 2025 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV012

Revd Dr Tim Macquiban

Tim Macquiban based his doctoral research through University of Birmingham on this topic while teaching in the School of Theology at Westminster College Oxford (latterly Oxford Brookes University). He has taught in higher education as a social and religious historian and was recently co-Chair of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies and President of the Wesley Historical Society. He contributed many articles in the New Dictionary of National Biography.

All are welcome to attend these in-person talks. 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 event venue is via a flight of steps. 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 512963.
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‘It turned us yellow all over’: Health Care Provision for Munition Workers During the First World War

Start Date: 5 November 2025 4:00 pm

End Date: 5 November 2025 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV012

Dr Claire Chatterton, Visiting Professor, Universities of Chester and Chichester

Both women and men played a vital role in Britain’s munitions factories during the First World War, but this came at a considerable cost to their health.

This talk will discuss the health issues that arose from munitions work. It will also outline the health care provision made for workers in munitions factories and to what extent nursing and medical staff were able to ameliorate the health problems they encountered. It will also consider the extent to which these health issues were recognised at the time and the government’s response to them.

All are welcome to attend these in-person talks. 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 event venue is via a flight of steps. 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 512963.
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 1 July 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 1 July 2026 4:00 pm

Location: Wheeler Building basement

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.

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 512963 www.chester.ac.uk/events
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 3 June 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 3 June 2026 4:00 pm

Location: Wheeler Building basement

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.

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 512963 www.chester.ac.uk/events
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 6 May 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 6 May 2026 4:00 pm

Location: Wheeler Building basement

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.

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 512963 www.chester.ac.uk/events
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