HISTORICAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT
THE QUEEN’S NURSING INSTITUTE
INDEX OF MATERIALS AVAILABLE AT THE QNI
BOOKS – alphabetical by author
Florence Nightingale and the
Nursing Legacy
A History of The Queen's Nursing
Institute
The District Nurse’s Changing Role
Handbook of Midwifery
Nursing Life and Discipline
A History of the International
Council of Nurses 1899-1964 the
First 65 Years
In the Beginning
Monica Baly (1986) Croom Helm
Monica Baly (1987) Croom Helm
Sandra Battle, Jo Moran-Tellis,
Brian Salter (1985) University of
Surrey
Comyns Berkley 8th edition (1934)
Cassell & Co Ltd
Sheila Bevington (1943) H K Lewis
& Co Ltd
Daisy Bridges (1967) Pitman
Medical
Emma Brierly (in memoriam)
(1924)
Recent Advances in Public Health
J L Burns, 2nd edn (1959) J & A
Churchill Ltd
Manuals of Health: the Habitation in Francis de Chaumont (1897)
Relation to Health
A Guide to District Nursing and Mrs Dacre Craven (1890) Macmillan
Home Nursing
& Co
The State Enrolled Nurse – A report Department of Health and Social
by the sub-committee of the
Security Central Health Services
Standing Nursing Advisory
Council (1971) HMSO
Committee
A Short History of Nursing From the Lavinia Dock, Isabel M Stewart, 4th
Earliest Times to the Present Day
edition (1938)
The English Health Service – Its
Harry Eckstein (1959) Harvard
Origins, Structure and
University Press
Achievements
Hand Book For Queen’s Nurses
(1943) 3rd edn, Faber and Faber
Visiting Nurse Manual
Edna Foley (1914)
Powers of Life and Death: Aspects
Enid Fox (1991) Offprint from
of Maternal Welfare in England and
Medical History, 1991, 35:328-352
Wales Between the Wars
An Honourable Calling or a Despised Enid Fox Offprint from Social
Occupation: Licensed Midwifery and History of Medicine 06/02/237-259
its Relationship to District Nursing
in England and Wales before 1948
The Public Health Nurse and Her
Ruth Gilbert (1951) Harvard
Patient
University Press
Feeling the Pulse: A study of District Lisbeth Hockey (1966) Queen’s
Nursing in six areas
Institute of District Nursing
Care in the balance. A study of Lisbeth Hockey (1968) Queen’s
Updated Apr 08
collaboration between hospital and
community services
Co-operation
in
patient
care.
Studies of district nurses attached
to hospital and general medical
practices
Use or abuse? A study of the state
enrolled nurse in the local authority
nursing services
District Nursing on a Provident Basis
Institute of District Nursing
Lisbeth Hockey, Anne Buttimore
(1970) Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing
Lisbeth Hockey (1972) Queen’s
Institute of District Nursing
Jamieson Hurry (1898) The
Scientific Press
Handbook of the historical medical International Congress of Medicine
museum
(1913)
Report and Proceedings of the Jubilee Congress of District Nursing
Jubilee Congress of District Nursing (1909)
held at Liverpool 1909
Edith Cavell
Helen Judson (1941) The Macmillan
Co
Dedication. A selection from the Joan Werner Laurie (1953) William
public speeches of HM Queen Heinemann Ltd
Elizabeth II
A short history and description of Liverpool Queen Victoria District
district nursing in Liverpool
Nursing Association (1889)
The Next Street But One
M. Loane (1907) Edward Arnold
The Queen’s Poor: Life as They Find M. Loane (1909) 3rd impression.
It in Town and Country
Edward Arnold
Outlines of Routine in District M. Loane ?date
Nursing
Neighbours and Friends
M. Loane (1910) Edward Arnold
Maternity and Child Welfare – Local Government Board (1917)
report on the provision made by HMSO
public
health
authorities
and
voluntary agencies in England and
Wales
Report on a National Survey
Marie Curie Memorial and Queen’s
concerning Patients with Cancer
Institute of District Nursing (1952)
Nursed at Home
Health Visiting: A Textbook for
Margaret McEwan (1962) Faber and
Health Visitor Students
Faber
British Nursing Badges Vol 1
Jennifer Meglaughlin 1990 Vade
Mecum Press
District Nursing
Eleanor Merry & Iris Irven (1948)
Balliere, Tindall and Cox
Training of District Nurses: Report
Ministry of Health (1959) HMSO
of the Advisory Committee
Report of the Maternity Services
Ministry of Health (1959) HMSO
Committee
Report of the Working Party on the
Ministry of Health, Department of
training of District Nurses
Health for Scotland (1955) HMSO
Health
and
Welfare:
The Ministry of Health (1964 and 1966)
Development of Community Care
HMSO
The Post-Certificate Training and
Ministry of Health (1966) HMSO
Education of Nurses – a report by a
Updated Apr 08
sub-committee of the Standing
Nursing Advisory Committee
The report of the Committee on
senior nursing staff structure
(Salmon Report)
Progress
and
the
Provident
Contributory Scheme for District
Nursing Associations
Trained Nursing for the Sick Poor
Notes on nursing: what it is and
what it is not
Rathbone brothers - From merchant
to bankers 1742 - 1992
Asthma
Birth impairments
The Local Health Services
General Practice Today
Renal Failure: A priority in health?
The Work of Primary Medical Care
Dementia in Old Age
Manuals of Health – personal care
of health
Home for the weekend, back on
Monday. A study of a 5 day ward for
the
rehabilitation
of
geriatric
patients
Community Psychiatric Nurses An
abridged version of the report of a
descriptive study
The Story of the Ranyard Mission
1857-1937
Nurses on horseback
Report of proceedings at a
Conference of Affiliated Nursing
Associations 27 June 1934
List of places where there are
nursing associations employing
Queen’s Nurses
Conference of Representatives of
the DNAs Approved to Train for the
Roll of Queen’s Nurses, Liverpool
Report of Conference of
Representatives of Community
Nursing Associations ... to consider
the provision of pensions
Lectures
to
Nurses
on
their
Responsibilities as Queen’s Nurses
Outline
of
District
Nursing
Technique for Queen’s Nurses
Queen’s Nurses And What They Do:
over 50 years of service to the
country
Ministry of Health, Scottish Home
and Health Department (1966)
HMSO
Shirley Morris (?date) QIDN
Florence Nightingale (1881)
Florence Nightingale 4th edition
(1952) Harrison and Sons
Lucie Nottingham (1992) Rathbone
Brothers Plc
Office of Health Economics (1976)
Office of Health Economics (1978)
Office of Health Economics (1965)
Office of Health Economics (1968)
Office of Health Economics (1978)
Office of Health Economics (1974)
Office of Health Economics (1979)
E A Parkes 1887
Joan Parnell, Roger Naylor (1973)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
Joan W Parnell (1978) The Queen’s
Nursing Institute
Elspeth Platt (1937) Hodder &
Stoughton Ltd
Ernest Poole (1932) The Macmillan
Company
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1934)
1936-40, 47-48 Queen’s Institute of
District Nursing
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1937)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1937)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
– no date
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1948)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(?1940s)
Updated Apr 08
Syllabus
of
the
Course
and
Regulations governing the training
and examination in District Nursing
given in training centres approved
by the QIDN
Syllabus of the Six Months Course
of District Nurse Training given by
the QIDN and approved by the
Minister of Health
Syllabus of the Four Month Course
of District Nurse Training given by
the QIDN and approved by the
Minister of Health
General
Principles
of
District
Nursing Practice
State Enrolled Nurse on the District
The Training and Work of District
Nurses
Training for independence
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1956)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1960)
Queen’s Institute for District
Nursing (1960)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1964)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
– no date
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1964)
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing – no date
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1967)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1969)
Training for independence II –
upper and lower limbs
Integrated
Course
of
Nurse
Education:
a
study
of
an
experiment
Programme of courses
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1972
QIDN and William Rathbone Staff Queen’s Institute for District
College
Educational
Prospectus Nursing and William Rathbone Staff
1974-5
College
William Rathbone (A memoir)
Eleanor F. Rathbone (1908)
The History and Progress of District William Rathbone (1890) Macmillan
Nursing
& Co
Poverty: A Study of Town Life
B. Seebohm Rowntree (1910)
Macmillan & Co
A General History of Nursing
Lucy Seymer (1932) Faber and
Faber
Charitable Effort in Liverpool in the Margaret Simey (1951) The
19th Century
University Press Liverpool
Handbook for Queen’s Nurses
Some Queen’s Superintendents.
(1924) 2nd edn (1932) 3rd edn 1943
Eleanor Rathbone
Mary Stocks (1949) Victor Gollanz
Ltd
A Hundred Years of District Nursing Mary Stocks (1960) Allen and
Unwin
INSERT
Helen Sweet (2008) Routledge
The place of the District Nurse in The Association of Queen’s
the Health Services of the future
Superintendents – no date
The Work, Responsibilities and The Dan Mason nursing research
Status of the Enrolled Nurse
committee of the National Florence
Nightingale Memorial Committee
(1962)
Updated Apr 08
The Life of Florence Nightingale
Annual Report 1972-73
Sarah Tooley (1904) S H Bousfield
& Co Ltd
Westminster and Chelsea District
Nursing Association
BOOKS – by subject
History of the Institute
Royal Charter and Supplementary
Charters (printed and bound)
The Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute
for
Nurses
Minute
Books
(handwritten)
The Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute
for Nurses Minute Books (printed
and bound)
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing Minutes of Council and
Committees
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing – Annual Report of the
Council to the Patron HM Queen
Mary
Conference of Institutions approved
to train for the Roll of Queen’s
Nurses: report of proceedings
An outline of some aspects of the
work of the QIDN
A Hundred Years of District Nursing
A History of The Queen's Nursing
Institute
Biographies of key people:
The Life of Florence Nightingale
William Rathbone (A memoir)
Edith Cavell
Eleanor Rathbone
Dated 1889, 1898, 1904, 1928,
1958 and 1973
Vol 1 1888 – 1898
Vol 2 1898 – 1907
Executive committee:
Vol 1 1898 - 1905
1890 – 1921
1968 – 1991 [Queen’s Nursing
Institute from 1974]
1940-81
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1937)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1954)
Mary Stocks (1960) Allen & Unwin
Monica Baly (1987) Croom Helm
Sarah Tooley (1904) S H Bousfield
& Co Ltd
Eleanor F. Rathbone (1908)
Helen Judson (1941) The Macmillan
Co)
Mary Stocks (1949) Victor Gollancz
Ltd
Monica Baly (1986) Croom Helm
Florence Nightingale and the
Nursing Legacy
Rathbone
brothers
From Lucie Nottingham (1992) Rathbone
merchants to bankers 1742 - 1992
Brothers Plc
General history of nursing:
Handbook of the historical medical
museum
The Story of the Ranyard Mission
1857-1937
International Congress of Medicine
(1913)
Elspeth Platt (1937) Hodder &
Stoughton Ltd
Updated Apr 08
A Short History of Nursing from the
Earliest Times to the Present Day
Nursing Life and Discipline
A History of the International
Council of Nurses 1899-1964 the
First 65 Years
Liverpool:
A short history and description of
district nursing in Liverpool
William Rathbone (A memoir)
Report and Proceedings of the
Jubilee Congress of District Nursing
held at Liverpool 1909
Eleanor Rathbone
Lavinia Dock, Isabel M Stewart, 4th
edition (1938)
Sheila Bevington (1943) H K Lewis
& Co Ltd
Daisy Bridges (1967) Pitman
Medical
Liverpool Queen Victoria District
Nursing Association (1899)
Eleanor F. Rathbone (1908)
Jubilee Congress of District Nursing
(1909)
Mary Stocks (1949) Victor Gollancz
Ltd
Charitable Effort in Liverpool in the Margaret Simey (1951) The
19th Century
University Press Liverpool
Rathbone
brothers
From Lucie Nottingham (1992) Rathbone
merchants to bankers 1742 – 1992
Brothers Plc
Education and training:
Trained Nursing for the Sick Poor
Evidence Submitted to the Training
of District Nurses
Syllabus
of
the
Course
and
Regulations governing the training
and examination in District Nursing
given in training centres approved
by the QIDN
Training of District Nurses: Report
of the Advisory Committee
Syllabus of the Six Months Course
of District Nurse Training given by
the QIDN and approved by the
Minister of Health
Syllabus of the Four Month Course
of District Nurse Training given by
the QIDN and approved by the
Minister of Health
General
Principles
of
District
Nursing
The Training and Work of District
Nurses
The Post-Certificate Training and
Education of Nurses – a report by a
sub-committee of the Standing
Nursing Advisory Committee
Safer sterilising of equipment
Training for independence
Florence Nightingale (1881)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1954)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1956)
Ministry of Health (1959) HMSO
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1960)
Queen’s Institute for District
Nursing (1960)
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing (1964)
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing (1964)
Ministry of Health (1966) HMSO
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing (1965)
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing (no date)
Updated Apr 08
Training for independence
upper and lower limbs
II
– Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1967)
Integrated
Course
of
Nurse The Queen’s Institute of District
Education:
a
study
of
an Nursing (1969)
experiment
Programme of courses
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1972)
QIDN and William Rathbone Staff Queen’s Institute for District
College
Educational
Prospectus Nursing and William Rathbone Staff
1974-5
College
Development of district nursing:
The History and Progress of District
Nursing
A short history and description of
district nursing in Liverpool
Report and Proceedings of the
Jubilee Congress of District Nursing
held at Liverpool 1909
List of places where there are
nursing associations employing
Queen’s Nurses
Queen’s Nurses And What They Do:
over 50 years of service to the
country
A Hundred Years of District Nursing
Health
and
WelfareThe
Development of Community Care
Feeling the Pulse: A study of District
Nursing in six areas
The East London Nursing Society A History of a Hundred Years 1868
Care in the balance. A study of
collaboration between hospital and
community services
Co-operation
in
patient
care.
Studies of district nurses attached
to hospital and general medical
practices
Home for the weekend, back on
Monday. A study of a 5 day ward for
the
rehabilitation
of
geriatric
patients
Annual Report 1972-73
The District Nurse’s Changing Role
William Rathbone (1890)
Liverpool Queen Victoria District
Nursing Association (1899)
Jubilee Congress of District Nursing
(1909)
1936-40, 47-48 Queen’s Institute of
District Nursing
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
(1940s)
Mary Stocks (1960) Allen & Unwin
Ministry of Health (1964) HMSO
Lisbeth Hockey (1966) Queen’s
Institute of District Nursing
Edith Ramsey (1968)
Lisbeth Hockey (1968) Queen’s
Institute of District Nursing
Lisbeth Hockey, Anne Buttimore
(1970) Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing
Joan Parnell, Roger Naylor (1973)
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
Westminster and Chelsea District
Nursing Association
Sandra Battle, Jo Moran-Tellis,
Brian Salter (1985) University of
Surrey
The place of the District Nurse in The Association of Queen’s
the Health Services of the future
Superintendents – no date
INSERT
Helen Sweet (2008) Routledge
Updated Apr 08
Experience of district nursing:
The Next Street But One
The Queen’s Poor: Life as They Find
It in Town and Country
Neighbours and Friends
In the Beginning
Hand Book For Queen’s Nurses
Nursing Life and Discipline
M. Loane (1907) Edward Arnold
M. Loane (1909) 3rd impression
Edward Arnold
M. Loane (1910) Edward Arnold
Emma Brierly In memoriam (1924)
3rd Edition (1943) Faber and Faber
Sheila Bevington (1943) H K Lewis
& Co Ltd
Feeling the Pulse: A study of District Lisbeth Hockey (1966) The Queen’s
Nursing in six areas
Institute of District Nursing
Outlines of Routine in District M. Loane – no date
Nursing
Public health:
Manuals of Health – personal care E A Parkes (1887)
of health
Manuals of Health: the Habitation in Francis de Chaumont (1897)
Relation to Health
Poverty: A Study of Town Life
B. Seebohm Rowntree (1910)
Macmillan & Co
The Public Health Nurse and Her
Ruth Gilbert (1951) Harvard
Patient
University Press
Recent Advances in Public Health
J L Burns, 2nd edition (1959) J & A
Churchill Ltd
Health Visiting: A Textbook for
Margaret McEwan (1962) Faber &
Health Visitor Students
Faber Ltd
Enrolled Nurses:
The Work, Responsibilities
Status of the Enrolled Nurse
and The Dan Mason nursing research
committee of the National Florence
Nightingale Memorial Committee
(1962)
The State Enrolled Nurse – A report Department of Health and Social
by the sub-committee of the
Security Central Health Services
Standing Nursing Advisory
Council (1971) HMSO
Committee
State Enrolled Nurse on the District
Queen’s Institute of District Nursing
– no date
Use or abuse? A study of the state Lisbeth Hockey (1972) Queen’s
enrolled nurse in the local authority Institute of District Nursing
nursing services
Specific conditions/care groups:
Report on a National Survey
concerning Patients with Cancer
Nursed at Home
Asthma
Birth impairments
Renal Failure: A priority in health?
Dementia in Old Age
Marie Curie Memorial and Queen’s
Institute of District Nursing (1952)
Office
Office
Office
Office
Updated Apr 08
of
of
of
of
Health
Health
Health
Health
Economics
Economics
Economics
Economics
(1976)
(1978)
(1978)
(1979)
Maternity and child health:
Maternity and Child Welfare –
Report on the provision made by
public
health
authorities
and
voluntary agencies in England and
Wales
An Honourable Calling or a Despised
Occupation: Licensed Midwifery and
its Relationship to District Nursing
in England and Wales before 1948
Report of the Maternity Services
Committee
Powers of Life and Death: Aspects
of Maternal Welfare in England and
Wales Between the Wars
Handbook of Midwifery
Health services:
The English Health Service – it’s
Origin, Structure and Achievements
The Local Health Services
The report of the Committee on
senior nursing staff structure
General Practice Today
The Work of Primary Medical Care
The place of the District Nurse in
the Health Services of the future
Local Government Board (1917)
Enid Fox Offprint from Social
History of Medicine 06/02/237-259
Ministry of Health (1959) HMSO
Enid Fox (1991) Offprint from
Medical History 1991 35:328-352
Comyns Berkley 8th edition (1934)
Cassell & Co Ltd
Harry Eckstein (1959) Harvard
University Press
Office of Health Economics (1965)
Ministry of Health, Scottish Home
and Health Department (1966)
Office of Health Economics (1968)
Office of Health Economics (1974)
The Association of Queen’s
Superintendents – no date
JOURNALS/MAGAZINES
History of Nursing Society
History of Nursing Society
History of Nursing Society
Nursing Notes Journal
Queen’s Nursing Journal (bound)
Queen’s Nurses’ magazine* (bound)
Queen’s Nurses’ magazine (bound)
District Nursing Journal (bound)
Royal College of Nursing Vol 3 No 2
Royal College of Nursing Vol 3 No 3
Royal College of Nursing Vol 4 No 3
1898 - 1937
Vol I – XVI 1974-77
Vol I – Vol XIII
1913 - 1958
1958 - 1976
*These magazines include:
 The examination questions and correct answers for entry to the Roll
of Queen’s Nurses for each year
 The names of all QNs admitted to the Roll, and those retiring,
leaving for other reasons, or returning
 Letters and queries from QNs
 Reports from branches of the Institute in Scotland, Ireland and
Wales
 Advertisements for uniforms and equipment
INSTITUTE RECORDS
Updated Apr 08
Copies of Royal Charter and
Supplementary Charters (bound)
The Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute
for
Nurses
Minute
Books
(handwritten)
The Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute
for Nurses Minute Books (printed
and bound)
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing Minutes of Council and
Committees
The Queen’s Institute of District
Nursing – Annual Report of the
Council to the Patron HM Queen
Mary
Dated 1889, 1898, 1904, 1928,
1958 and 1973
Vol 1 1888 – 1898
Vol 2 1898 – 1907
Executive committee:
Vol 1 1898 - 1905
1890 – 1921
1968 – 1991 [Queen’s Nursing
Institute from 1974]
1940-81
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
The Role of the Nurse – views of the
patient, nurse and doctor in some
general hospitals in England
In a Different Light – school nurses
and their role in meeting the needs
of school age children
District Nursing - The Invisible
Workforce
Vision and Values – a call for action
on community nursing
Evelyn R Anderson (1973) Royal
College of Nursing
Pippa Bagnall, Mark Dilloway (1996)
Queen’s Nursing Institute
(copies available free of charge)
QNI and ENB, 2003
(reference only)
QNI, 2006
(copies available to purchase)
OTHER MATERIALS OF INTERST
Queen Alexandra’s speech to
Queen’s Nurses at Marlbrough
House
Service of Dedication, St Peter’s,
Eaton Square
Service of Thanksgiving and
Rededication on the occasion of the
Centenary of District Nursing
(Westminster Abbey)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s
speech for the presentation of long
3 July 1901
Order of Service - 30 October 1953
Order of Service – 1 July 1959
20 November 1985
Updated Apr 08
service badges to Queen’s Nurses
A service of Celebration and
Thanksgiving to mark the
Centenary of the Queen’s Nursing
Institute (Westminster Abbey)
Record of district nurses and district
nurse/midwives who served the old
Lancashire County prior to the NHS
Handwritten notes on DN training
lectures by Irene Sankey
Report on opium addiction in
Singapore
Report of a study of TB in Denmark
(The RA Pilkington Scholarship
awarded by St Helens DNA)
Paper on the development of the
Crossroads Care Attendant scheme
Record of nurses in training in
Lancashire 1968-1981
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings re
Albert Nurse (Sec of Sheffield
Queen Victoria DNA’s provident
scheme)
Central Midwives Board Register of
Cases
Order of Service – 21 September
1987
100 records showing number of
nurses, provision made for them
(accommodation, transport),
sources of funds, size and
population density, by parish
Brighton DNA 1942
Irene Sankey 1958
4 photographs of Singapore and
nurses
Irene Sankey 1955
Irene Sankey, co-founder of the
scheme, 1976
Handwritten by Superintendent
Mrs Lily Bateup (nee Scott) 19371939
PHOTOGRAPHS
There is a selection of photographs suitable for electronic transfer. These
show nurses at work in the community from the 1900s to the 2000s.
Date
Pre-1900
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Description
Nurses with lotions
Dame Rosalind Paget
William Rathbone VI
Liverpool nurses group photo 1914
School nurse 1906
None
HV visit
Operation
Queen’s Nurse in car
Queen’s Nurse with mother and children
Queen’s Nurse with travelling family and caravan
QN with chalk board
Preparing for rounds in clinical room
With patient using hoist
Giving injection
None
None
Updated Apr 08
1990s
2000s
Various projects
Various projects
We also have copies of ‘Pictures of Health’ and ‘More Pictures of Health’,
two compilations of old photographs of hospitals, training schools and
nurses from the early 1900s, by Cynthia O’Neill.
There are portrait photographs of many of the early Superintendents of
the Institute, from Dame Rosalind Paget onward.
NURSING EQUIPMENT, UNIFORM AND BADGES
We have a variety of old equipment, items of uniform and badges that are
used for displays. For further details of these, contact Joanne Moorby
(Joanne.moorby@qni.org.uk).
Updated Apr 08