Today we can share the stories of three women who spent time as nurses. Firstly, Dorothy Turner and Margot Lilian Lee-Potter, who were both from Batley in Yorkshire and served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Their stories can be found here. We have also added Ella Hay, who worked at the Fleming Memorial Hospital and whose story is here.Don't forget we welcome stories at any time, we just ask that they fulfil our criteria. We can also suggests names that need researching if you don't want to w
We have just uploaded eight stories of staff and patients from the Fleming Memorial Children's Hospital in Jesmond, Newcastle on Tyne. You can meet Lilian Bell, Annie Binks, Esther Hartley, Lily Hymers, Amelia Pressly, Jessie Russell, Margery Sample and Margaret Scott. Their stories can be found here. As a result of the Forgotten Women Friday research, we have also received several shorter stories from this institution, which will be added later.
The stories from Friday's Forgotten Women Friday event are starting to come in. You can now read about Norah Penelope Adamson, Marian Barker, Margaret Cameron, Evelyn Altham Jackson, Frances Emma Ludlam, Jane Short and Euphemia Wright. We have also received some shorter stories that will be put together later. The stories can be found here.The Former Fleming Hospital - Image from Geograph used under Creative Commons.
Florence Nightingale:
"She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. via @wikipedia
Books by Florence Nightingale at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4370
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In actual fact, the implementation of nurses in rural communities was a national scheme.
Before the mid-19th Century, nursing was not seen as a respectable job. It was practiced by the poorest women and society associated it with slovenliness, bad character, and drunkenness. That changed in the Crimean War (1853-56) through the efforts of women such as #FlorenceNightingale and #MarySeacole. The second half of the century saw the beginning of nurse training and the recognition of it as a profession.
Queen Victoria took a great interest in this. In 1887, for her Golden Jubilee, Women's Institutes all over the country raised the vast sum of £70,000 and presented it to the queen. Victoria decreed that it should be used to provide training and support for a new scheme: District Nursing. This was the start of the community nursing we still benefit from in the UK today.
Hence the Jubilee Cottage for the Jubilee Institute Nurse.
But who was Veronica Badgery? And what about her absent husband?
A bit more digging gave me some fascinating answers.
In Marylebone in 1896, Annie Veronica Huntley, daughter of Richard Herbert Maxwell Huntley ('gentleman') married Thomas William Badgery, a leather dresser from Worcester.
In 1898, their son, Thomas Maxwell Badgery, was born.
In 1902, Anne Veronica filed for divorce.
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