An oral history that gives Nurses a voice
The interviews chronicle over 1,000 years of nursing
experience. Where hospital histories traditionally concentrate on buildings and celebrated
physicians and surgeons, the experience of the patient on the ward and of their treatment is
dependent on the very intimate and often personal relationship with the nursing staff. The
stories of those who support and administer new medical treatments and advances, but are so often
un-remarked in official accounts of institutions have now been told, as they are remembered, with
all the personal interpretation, thoughtfulness and humour that you would expect to find in such
a collection.
Over 100 interviews have been conducted with retired and working nurses who were trained or
worked at St George's Hospital London UK from 1929 to the present.
We invite you share in these personal memories which have contributed to the history of
nursing, teaching hospitals and UK healthcare and explore what it was like to be a nurse in the
second half of the twentieth century, and what this collection has to contribute to the practice
of nursing today and in the twenty-first century.
If you would like to contribute your memories to the collection or would like to create a
similar collection of your hospital, speciality or workplace, please contact us.
NursesVoices is not linked or allied to any political party and this website has been
produced solely for the benefit of nurses, nursing and research.