A2A allows you to search and browse for information about archives in England, dating from the 900s to the present day. These archives are cared for in local record offices and libraries, universities

AIM25 is a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area.

Direct link to the: On line catalogue.

HMC is the UK's central advisory body on archives and manuscripts relating to British history. Established in 1869 they are the principal source of information on the nature and location of records and the leading provider of advice relating to them.

The LMA includes important nursing records from the London teaching hospitals.

These archives include significant nursing records and links to other Scottish Health Service Archives.

(University of Sussex).

University of Warwick. The archives of COHSE (Confederation of Health Service Employees) are in Warwick.

Search using 'nursing' and 'history' to find documents relating to nurse training.

This site includes many links to UK and world wide repositories.

This website contains a collection of resources relating to the early years of The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, England's first in-patient children's hospital. At the core of the site is a fully searchable database of patient admissions from 1852 to 1914. A collection of articles on the development of the hospital, including the growth of the nursing department, and biographies of leading doctors provides context to the database.

An archive of personal experiences during wartime. Includes material from WW1 and WW2

The UK Data Archive is a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.

Full text documents including early classical texts, documents relating to the eradiction of Smallpox and the fight against malaria. Available freely on line.

Includes important Health Visiting (HVA), District Nursing (QNI England and Wales), Nightingale and other nursing records.

for nursing, midwifery and health visiting

Includes nursing records.

The PRO published leaflets which offer guidance to some collections. For nurses and nursing services they include: Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and Civilian.

Poems written reflecting on his experiences while a patient of Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. c. 1870.

On line source materials relating to VAD nurses in Belgium during WW1.

Online source material for the study of midwifery and women's work.

The full text of this early nursing journal including illustrations. (The name changed in 1902)

This site is mainly about London. However e-texts of various sources are available that relate to public health and hospitals.

Bath Information and Data Services

Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999

Health and Life Sciences pages of Intute. A free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.

This site has great links for women's history.

Web Page for Humanities Research. These pages include primary sources

This site offers unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.

The Genesis project is a mapping initiative, funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) to identify and develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles.

The Humbul Humanities Hub aims to be UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources.

A bibliographic and text resource base for people interested in the history of idiocy.

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network

Interactive history writing, contribute to the latest chapter of the History of the NHS.

London and other locations.

Possibly the only surviving example of a pre-Listerian operating theatre open to the public.