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Research starters

Themed introductions to research at the RCN archives:

  • Finding educational records (PDF)
  • How to find and use nursing images (PDF)
  • How to find Royal College of Nursing Fellows (PDF)
  • How to search for hospital records on nurses (PDF)
  • How to search the nursing registers on Ancestry (PDF)
  • Mental health and learning disability nursing (PDF)
  • Nurses and migration (PDF)
  • Nurses working internationally (PDF)
  • Nurses' uniforms (PDF)
  • Tracing nurses: a guide to British nursing sources for researching family and local history (PDF)
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