Researching Army Nurses

Context

Some time ago we ran a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Researching British Army Nurses. We have brought the material over to the wiki and will update it over time. So do not be surprised if there are comments in the videos and the text which relate to the course. The areas we cover are:

Chapter	Section
Medal Rolls	Overview of Medal Rolls
	Victorian Wars Medal Rolls
	Boer War Medal Rolls
	Challenges of transcription, context and language
Newspapers, journals and the Web	Overview of Sources
	RCN Historical Journals
	Ethics in historical research
	The Singapore Ships
	Authenticity and Veracity
Diaries and Letters	Censorship
	Kate Luard's Letters
	Mixing Family and Nursing History
	Women's History & the Professionalisation of Nursing
	Finding Ephemera
	Preserving Ephemera
	Lilian Robinson's Autograph Book
	Putting it together, Ethel Beatrice Lloyd
Photographs and Pictures	Identification Features
	Tippet Medals
	Uniforms Boer War and WW1
	Uniforms WW2 onwards
	Medals
	Paintings and Memorials
The National Archives/ The Census	UK Census
	Tracking nurses
	Census documents
	Returns for Military Hospitals
	WO 399 collection
	Accessing modern military records