Women nurses in WW1

[Magpie]

Just tuned in to Radio 4 Woman's Hour. One of today's topics is women nurses in WW1 which sounds interesting. (Particularly to me who is avid collector of this topic). Will probably be the last thing on the programme !!

[Magpie]

Not a very long piece but interesting. I missed the name of the original nurse Elsie ? interviewed in the 50's but today it was Prof Christine Hallett (Director of UK Centre for History of Nursing and Midwifery). She is also the historical adviser to the new BBC drama series "The Crimson Field"about nurses in WW1 at a base hospital near French Coast. Sadly many nurses were gassed and suffered shell shock. Their diagnosis was not shell shock but "disordered action of the heart". The nurses were not given disability pensions until 1928.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ww1

[backman]

Anyone around Buckinghamshire in May, there is a talk by Rosemary Cook on WW1 nurses as well as the Nightingale Shore Murder
http://www.chalfontstgilesliteraryfestival.org.uk