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Dr. Erin Spinney
@erinspinney.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of New Brunswick Saint John | Napoleonic #histmed #histnursing and Royal Navy hospital ships | Cat lover | she/her
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Today is finally the day! Welcome to 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History Conference! #aahn2025
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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President @erinspinney.bsky.social opening the 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History conference with an interactive activity! #aahn2025 #histnursing
October 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Registered for the 2025 Preconference yet?

Join us for "Trauma-Informed Peadgogical Approaches: Enhancing Empathy and Safety When Teaching History to Prepare Students for Contemporary Nursing Practice."

Register and find more details here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere...

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September 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Over the next few weeks leading up to our conference October 16-18th we will be featuring a series of annual conference previews!

Register for the conference here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere...

Session 1A: Teaching Nursing History and Pedagogy
Moderator: Annemarie McAllister
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September 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Looks a thought provoking virtual session #histnursing
Our October virtual speakers series will feature Lucky Tomdi presenting "'I Just Want to Be of Help to My Own People': Race and Inequity in Gold Coast’s (Ghana) Nursing Service, 1940-1950s."

October 3 from 12-1 pm Eastern. Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...

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September 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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💫New Workshop #CfP💫

'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social.

#HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Happening this Friday, September 19th from 2-3pm Eastern Time! Join us for our retired members networking event.

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/networking-g...
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Today is the last day for early brid conference registration! Register today for the 42nd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History conference and save some money on the registration cost.

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/2025-confere...

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September 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wonderful! I hope that the students enjoyed!
Teaching Canadian #envhist in 2025 is SUCH a delight, not least because of @nichecanada.bsky.social's resources! This week, on climate and seasonality, we read posts by
@blairstein.bsky.social, @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social & @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social & a PiCHE paper by
@erinspinney.bsky.social 🤩
June 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Register today for our May virtual speaker series! Join us for "Nursing the Metropolis: The Female Ward Staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, 1660-1820," by @alannahtomkins.bsky.social

Register and read the abstract here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...

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April 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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From volume 31 (2023) of Nursing History Review, now with digital object identifiers (DOIs)!

“Women’s Work: Nurses, Orderlies, and the Gendered Division of Care in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era British Army Hospitals" by @erinspinney.bsky.social.

Read it here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...
April 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Excited to be a part of the Integrated Health Initiative Research Symposium today and tomorrow at @discoverunb.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Great opportunity for nursing instructors!
Please share widely with your networks!

Virtual Webinar "Teaching History in Competency-based Education: Five History-focused Activities to Address Domain 3 Population Health Sub-competencies"

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-webi...

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April 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Please share widely with your networks!

Virtual Webinar "Teaching History in Competency-based Education: Five History-focused Activities to Address Domain 3 Population Health Sub-competencies"

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-webi...

#histnursing
April 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Happening today from 12-1 pm Eastern!

For the April AAHN Virtual Speaker's Series, Dr. Jane Brooks will present "The 'grey zone' for women who wore white: Jewish nursing identity during the National Socialist regime"

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...

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April 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Join us for our next CHIPH seminar on Tuesday 8th April, when Dr Manikarnika Dutta will be talking about British seamen and tropical medicine in the 1800s. Details and event listings (inc. Zoom link) are below:
Location: G40, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
British naval surgeons and tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century |
This presentation explores how the treatment of British seamen aided the development of tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century. The paper will be of interest to staff and students who want to
www.lshtm.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."

More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

#WomensHistory #GLAM
WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
womenshistorynetwork.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Nurse Practitioner Awards in Research or Preservation!

Two awards provide up to $5,000 of support to students, faculty, nurse practitioners, archivists, & scholars and researchers in nursing, health care, or a related field. Due June 1, 2025.

More information: nursing.virginia.edu/nursing-hist...
History Center Research Awards
Apply for research grants, fellowships and awards from the UVA School of Nursing History Center
nursing.virginia.edu
March 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Call for abstracts by the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics: To become a nurse

#histmed #histnurse

www.enhe.eu/enhe/announc...
Call for Abstracts (Eighth Issue 2026): To become a nurse | European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics
www.enhe.eu
April 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Now available with a digital object identifier (DOIs)! Read here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...
April 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Reminder to join us in one week for the AAHN Virtual Speaker Series! Happening April 2nd from 12-1 pm Eastern.

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...

Dr. Jane Brooks presents "The 'grey zone' for women who wore white: Jewish nursing identity during the National Socialist regime"
March 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Happening today!

There is still time to register for the all members networking event this afternoon from 2-3 pm Eastern.

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/networking-g...
March 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Are you conducting a historical study of nursing and have completed your doctorate in the past 8 years? Submit your application for our H-15 Early Career Research Grant!
Applications due May 1st.

More details available here: aahn.memberclicks.net/research-gra...

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March 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Book reviews in volume 33 (2025) of Nursing History Review include @erinspinney.bsky.social's review of "The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution, by Andrew M. Wehrman." @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Read the review here: doi.org/10.5325/nurs...
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution, by Andrew M. Wehrman
The Contagion of Liberty offers a fascinating examination of smallpox before and during the American Revolution, and in the early years of the American Republic with particular focus on the “liberty” ...
doi.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM