‘When the Nightingale Sang’ gives a wonderful insight into a nurse’s life in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a fascinating account of the time when items were always brought on a tray or trolley, nothing was disposable and everything needed scrubbed and sterilised before re-use, and more time seemed to be spent by a nurse polishing furniture and bedpans than caring for her patients.  This story is far more than about nursing though. It follows one young woman growing up in the era when Rock and Roll bursts onto the scene. As she struggles to juggle her career and love life in the days before Women's Lib, a young nurse watches the world go through amazing changes.   The peace movement gathers momentum, Martin Luther King dreams of a future of racial harmony, and the first man goes into space. Then Doris Day is knocked off the charts by The Beatles. ‘When the Nightingale sang’ is a burst of nostalgia not just for nurses, but for all lovers of the 1950s and 1960s.

When the Nightingale Sang: A Nurse's Life in the 1950's & 1960's

Biographies & Memoirs

O'Neill, Cynthia

Franklin, Rosalind

Community & Culture

meadow books

American Nurses in the early 1800's were for the most part drunks, illiterate and totally unreliable. Then inspired by Florence Nightingale's example in England, Bellevue Nurse Training School in New York came into being, changing the face of American Nursing. Well-to-do women in their hundreds flocked to train as nurses and gain a profession. This book talks about this era, giving details about nursing training at both Bellevue & its ‘Sister School’, Connecticut School for Nurses. Personal accounts from the 1800's of Night Duty, Visiting Nurse's Tenement work, assisting surgeons in operating theatres and visiting the mental asylums are given. Advice to nurse recruiters of the day is also included, listing a nurse's ideal qualities as: ‘One who is accustomed to playing lawn tennis, who can ride, skate and row, makes the best material. If she can dance is a great advantage for graceful carriage is a thing to be cultivated. If in addition to being well-formed she is favored with good looks it is all the better’ Containing seven rare engravings of Nursing, this book is a nostalgic treat for all nurses.

The Nightingale Sisters: The Making of a Nurse in 1800's America

Medical Books

Nursing

Diggory Press

<p>Mixing romance with a nostalgic flavour of the era, this is the true story of a nurses's training in Hammersmith, London, in the late 1950s, before detailing her working life as a district nurse in East Sussex in the 1960s.</p>

When the Nightingale Sang: A Nurse's Life in the 1950s and 1960s

Professionals & Academics

Diggory Pr

Superstitions from all over the world covering everything from getting engaged to arranging the honeymoon suite. There's advice on picking your bridesmaids (never choose a redhead as she will steal your Groom), the 'language of flowers' in the bridal bouquet (orange blossoms represent eternal love), numerology regarding your new married name, setting the wedding date (Saturday is bad as it is ruled by Saturn, an unlucky planet associated with negative energies like jealousy), choosing the wedding outfit (never buy a wedding dress that was first set aside for a wedding that never actually happened as it is jinxed), the Ceremony, (rose petals are thrown before the Bride as she walks down the aisle to ward off the evil spirits that live beneath the ground from coming up at her), the Reception (Bridesmaids should not wash the dishes or they will fall out with the married couple), plus many more!

The Bride's Book of Wedding Superstitions

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