Events

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

4 December 2024 4:00 pm

The First World War was always much more than just a history of errant generals or waterlogged trenches on the Western Front, the conflict...

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

5 February 2025 4:00 pm

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...

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Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society in-person talk: Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead (University of Chester), ‘From Newcastle to Nassau’: The Voyage of a Colonial Nursing Sister

5 March 2025 4:00 pm

The list of passengers sailing on S.S. “Patuca” from Avonmouth on 27th January 1930 included Mrs M.E. Miller, a nursing sister from the north...

Events

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society Historical Society in-person talk: Chantal Bradburn (University of Chester), Art and Plastic Surgery in the First World War: An Illustrated talk about the role of illustration and photography in the development of plastic surgery during the First World War

2 April 2025 4:00 pm

This talk explores the importance of illustration in the development of new plastic surgery technologies and procedures during and immediately after the war, with...