The Nursing badges public gallery - "When our website was first envisaged (we actually opened November 2007) one of our esteemed members, ('eric') suggested that our photograph galleries, then private, could be made public"... our current update is right here.
So what's new? Firstly. We are the reverse images of each badge. Unique images from each badge displayed - not generic images from stock photographs. This is extremely important to making each badge photograph a standardized reliable and not least valid record of a particular badge. You need only point your cursor at a particular badge to see if a reverse has been added.
We now have 3 galleries which are open to the public without login:-
1. Eric's Gallery - The original and much neglected gallery still awaiting update. CLICK LINK...
2. Peter's 'backman' gallery - 50 fifty (50) pages of 24 badges per page and 1250 pages - (2400 photographs). CLICK LINK...
3. Mike's 'myk1066' - at the first (published) page of 20 badges - with
another 91 pages in progress.
CLICK
LINK...
(*Temporarily - You may need to use your browser 'back' button to get back
here).
Click a badge photograph to see the single page! The links can take
you back and forward - a page at a time (24badges per page) - for all pages if you like. Or go to the
'Gallery Start" page at the bottom of any individual
badge to get back to the numbered 24 badge page. Sound complicated but you
will quickly get the hang of it - promise!
Much detail is being added. Last time I said 'Individual hospital/school locations
have been (and are still being) added; badge shapes; materials used; badge
weights; type of fixings; central design (picture) ; inscriptions on the
rear (nurse names/dates/maker marks/hallmarks where applicable); designer/s;
manufacturers; number made; and dates first awarded are all salient points
in our quest being addressed'. Obverse sides being added to each badge
wherever we have the photographs.
In short, everyone who has
agreed to our publishing a public gallery will have one - using
their own photographs wherever possible. We must surely have a copy of
almost every UK nursing/hospital badge ever produced...
We have no new articles this time, but at least one on badge
manufacturers and their marks is being developed for the next news with more
in the offing...
Email
messages - Training Transcripts - Qualified Nurses.
In our experience it has not been possible
for nurses seeking transcripts from schools which no longer exist to
obtain copies. However, we can offer a couple of links which may
help in your search:-
*But please note: We simply cannot respond to transcript requests individually'.
Member Photograph
Galleries.
Still accumulating, albeit now more slowly. The
'National' galleries now contain 4681 nursing/hospital badge photographs
encompassing all areas of the UK; 562 photographs
(buildings/people/ephemera); and 145 photographs (nurse uniforms), both
civilian and military. Will we achieve 5500 by the end of 2016? It is
possible, we continue to make solid progress and will perhaps achieve the
largest collection in the UK if we are not already there....
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We are now at 5368. 5500 now seems
a definite possibility. We are well on the way and just maybe, we will
see another magic number very shortly, thanks to our many contributors.
And it is not just a matter of quantity but rather a combination of
quantity and quality. The quality of additions made to the site - both
in the way of photographs and contributions to our forum has created an
irreplaceable contribution to nursing history. We can now claim to have a mini photographic museum here at schoolsofnursing. Sincere, heartfelt, thanks...
But the
photographs are not our be all/end all. Our online articles (41) are
gaining too, to say nothing of our nursing histories and news pages.
There is a great deal of research involved. Someone's time. Someone's
money. All given selflessly without thought of gain. What we have here
are the seeds of success.
But please, don't break copyrights when
uploading/sending photographs. If you are ever uncertain please ask. Most
copyright holders we have met so far have been only to keen to
assist.
And if you want to join - welcome to the Forum and
Member Galleries - Register
Here.
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Worldwide.. Certainly our
visitors are wide ranging - from 44 countries worldwide... Australia
& New Zealand and Canada are well represented in addition to the UK
and USA. There are also some more esoteric sounding countries - China;
Russia; Cayman Islands; Japan; Malaysia; plus Romania and Spain.
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