Resources
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University of Alberta: Convocation Address by Lisbeth Hockey made on the occasion of her receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta, 22nd of November 1980 [RCN Archives C/300/6/3/4].
A selection of documents and photographs from the Lisbeth Hockey papers held at The Royal College of Nursing Archives have been digitised and are available here. Please click on a link to be taken to the relevant resource.
- Matriculation certificate [in German], presented to Lisbeth Hochsinger when she entered University in Graz, Austria to study Medicine, 27th November 1936. [RCN Archives C/300/1/2/2]
- Lisbeth Hochsinger's University of Graz study book [inside front cover only]: Includes photograph of Lisbeth. 1936-1938. [RCN Archives C/300/1/2/3].
- Photograph of Lisbeth Hockey in a nurse's outside uniform , taken when she was training to be a nurse in London, c1938-1939. [RCN Archives C/300/7/1].
- Lisbeth Hockey's Fever Nurse training certificate, 26th February 1943 . [RCN Archives C/300/1/4/2].
- Group photograph of a contingent of district nurses from the North London (Islington) District Nursing Association standing outside the Association's headquarters in Canonbury. The district nurses were taking part in the review of district nurses by the Queen Mother at Buckingham Palace and the picture was taken shortly before their departure to the review. Lisbeth Hockey is the lady six from the right at the front. [RCN Archives C/300/7/10].
- Photograph of the attendees of the first Royal College of Nursing Fellows seminar , held on the 15th-18th April 1980 at Leeds Castle, Kent. The photograph is taken outside the castle and Lisbeth Hockey is standing four from the left, second row. [RCN Archives C/300/7/13].
