Our first StoryMap is now live!
Using ARCGis StoryMaps, team members are working to map various aspects of the League’s story. Our first map illustrates the global origins of the graduates of the public health nursing courses run by the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) in London between 1920 and c.1934. It can be found online here.
Our research draws upon materials found in numerous archives and nursing journals from across the world. This includes the archives of the League of Red Cross Societies (now the IFRC), the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Bedford College Nursing Papers, which have been deposited with the Royal Holloway Digital Repository.
For more information about the student cohort, see: Melanie Oppenheimer (2020): ‘Nurses of the League: the League of Red Cross Societies and the development of public health nursing post-WWI’, History Australia, DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2020.1840290
And for more information on the nursing leaders described in the StoryMap, see Melanie Oppenheimer, ‘Gender, personalities and the politics of humanitarianism: Nursing leaders of the League of Red Cross Societies between the Wars’ in Joy Damousi, Trevor Burnard & Alan Lester (eds), Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).