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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 1 April 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 1 April 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: 4 March 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 4 March 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: 4 February 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 4 February 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: 14 January 2026 1:00 pm

End Date: 14 January 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 December 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 3 December 2025 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: 5 November 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 5 November 2025 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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Forgotten But Not Lost. How a great medical pioneer was rediscovered

Start Date: 1 October 2025 4:00 pm

End Date: 1 October 2025 5:30 pm

Location: Wheeler Building CRV012

Sheena Evans, Independent Research and Biographer

Janet Vaughan lived from 1899 to 1993. One of the few women to qualify as a doctor in 1925, within 10 years she published a classic book on the anaemias and was teaching in the British Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith. She was seventh female fellow of the Royal College of Physicians from 1939, and first female Councillor from 1943.

Vaughan campaigned to improve the nutrition of the poor, and from 1936 worked for Spanish Medical Aid to relieve suffering during the Spanish Civil War. During World War Two she helped run the blood transfusion service and plan the reform of medical education, and served on the 1944 Royal Commission on Equal Pay.

Principal of Somerville College Oxford from 1945, she became a Dame in 1957. Research continued: she was soon a world authority on the effects of plutonium on bone, then Fellow of the Royal Society. But by 1993 she had slipped from public memory.

Her biographer will explore the reasons for this, and how it proved possible to research and write the story of her action-packed life.

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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University of Chester Riverside Museum open

Start Date: 1 October 2025 1:00 pm

End Date: 1 October 2025 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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