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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
5 November 2025 1:00 pm
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,...
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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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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
3 December 2025 1:00 pm
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,...
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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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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
14 January 2026 1:00 pm
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,...
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
4 February 2026 1:00 pm
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,...
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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...
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
4 March 2026 1:00 pm
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,...
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Workers with ‘necks as white as snow’: Macclesfield Baths and Washhouses in the Nineteenth Century
4 March 2026 4:00 pm
Dr Sarah Griffiths, Managing Editor, University of Chester Press A key part of the national campaign to improve sanitary conditions in urban areas was...
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
1 April 2026 1:00 pm
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,...
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
6 May 2026 1:00 pm
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,...
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’From Far and Wide’: Health and Social Care Workers from Overseas
6 May 2026 4:30 pm
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...
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
3 June 2026 1:00 pm
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,...
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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...
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University of Chester Riverside Museum open
1 July 2026 1:00 pm
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,...