A fascinating oral history exhibition called 'Hospital Voices' has just opened at the Florence Nightingale Museum. The exhibition has oral extracts and film of Nurses and Patients telling of their experiences at St. Thomas and Guys Hospital.
A fascinating oral history exhibition called 'Hospital Voices' has just opened at the Florence Nightingale Museum. The exhibition has oral extracts and film of Nurses and Patients telling of their experiences at St. Thomas and Guys Hospital.
The exhibition uses the oral history collection, which was project managed by Carol McCubbin, to demonstrate the legacy of Florence Nightingale to Nursing, hospitals and patient care from 1930 to the present day. It also contains interviews with celebrities such as Jonathan Dimbleby, Tony Benn and Gill Hicks (a 7th of July survivor).
Many of the interviews were conducted by Nurses Voices Volunteer Oral Historians who found the experience of hearing the memories of nurse training and working life at these two hospitals, and comparing them with their own experiences of great interest.
The Florence Nightingale Museum is on Lambeth Palace Road, London just by Waterloo station and will run until December 2007.