Events
Forgotten But Not Lost. How a great medical pioneer was rediscovered
1 October 2025 4:00 pm
Sheena Evans, Independent Research and Biographer Janet Vaughan lived from 1899 to 1993. One of the few women to qualify as a doctor in...
Medicine
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‘It turned us yellow all over’: Health Care Provision for Munition Workers During the First World War
5 November 2025 4:00 pm
Photo credit: Leeds Central Library
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The Strangers’ Friends Societies: Methodism’s Response 1785-1840 to the Challenges of Urban Poverty and Disease
3 December 2025 4:00 pm
Revd Dr Tim Macquiban Tim Macquiban based his doctoral research through University of Birmingham on this topic while teaching in the School of Theology...
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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)
4 February 2026 4:00 pm
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...
Events
Less than Splendid Isolation: An Exploration of the Rise and Demise of England’s Fever Hospitals
3 June 2026 4:00 pm
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...