Brave Women of the NHS
Our Heritage Group2019-2021
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The collection includes a number of the outputs from the Brave Women of the NHS project including promotional material, photographs and oral histories
Title:
Brave Women of the NHS
Creator:
Date of work:
2019-2021
Search dates:
01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
Reference number:
GB3228.106
Level of description:
Collection
Includes:
Custodial history:
Transferred digitally (via WeTransfer) from Our Heritage Group directly to the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre
Arrangement:
GB3228.106/1 Project Papers
GB3228.106/2 Yvonne Douglas
GB3228.106/3 Mel Ekpei (Vicenia Ammerley Norjeye Ekpei)
GB3228.106/4 Person A (Closed until 12 Dec 2040)
GB3228.106/5 Mrs Princess Logie
GB3228.106/6 Monika Poku
GB3228.106/7 Person B
Finding aids note:
An index has been created for each oral history interview. Unabridged version is included in the catalouge.
Source:
Our Heritage Group
Access restrictions:
Restrictions vary
Use restrictions:
Restricted
General notes:
Brave Women in the NHS was planned as a year long project. It was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Funded and delivered by the Our Heritage Group, based in Manchester.
The project planned to celebrate and explore the history of Caribbean and African women and their contribution to the National Health Service in Manchester and beyond. Due to the impact of Covid 19 the project over ran its initial year and instead ran between May 2019 and Dec 2022. Restrictions on movement and personal reactions to the pandemic meant that some of the planned oral history interviewees were not interviewed, this included several women who would have been accessed via a care centre. Planned links with a Black Women Nurses group in London also did not come to fruition. This linked with the impact of Covid-19 led to a smaller number of interviews being undertaken.
The resulting six interviews were collected from nurses and healthcare workers who contributed to the development of this significant social institution during the post-war period and juxtaposed this with stories of those working in the NHS in the present day.
The stories explore the role migration has played in creating the current NHS and embraces positive role models that have shaped the way we access and experience healthcare in modern Britain. Overall the project gives a deeper understanding of how the face of the labour force market evolved and how a path to progressive and more inclusive employment opportunities was paved. Interviews focused on the interviewee’s skills, challenges, victories, and their experiences of integration and looked at how they faced the demands of social, political, and economic changes. The personal stories collected shape ideas and understanding of racism, sexism, diversity, inclusion, and social stigma. Through the sharing and archiving these stories the crucial role that Caribbean and African women played in post-war Manchester has been highlighted and included in the historic record.
As part of the project two events were held. On the 25 September 2022 a free Sunday dinners event was held at the West Indian Sports and Social Club, Moss Side. The event was themed around health and the Windrush generation aimed at maintaining the tradition of bringing the family together and the slide show of the word was displayed. This event was attended by over 70 people in person.
A second event was held in December 2022 at the West Indian Centre, Longsight. The event the annual Kwanzaa Event (Celebrating Kwanzaa) was attended by over 40 people in person. The slideshow was also displayed at this event.Catalogued Sep 2023
Related material note:
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre library and archvie has a wide range of items relating to the NHS which can be searched at https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRNGEN/WPAC/AIU?HOMEPRMS=UD_AIUPARAMS
A selection of the publications relating to nursing are listed below:
GB3228.30/6/98: Lecture by Lou Kushnick: Institutional Racism in the NHS, 1999
HI.1.04/WIL: Lovers and strangers : an immigrant history of post-war Britain / Clair Wills., 2018
HI.1.04/KRA: Many rivers to cross Caribbean people in the NHS 1948-69, 2006
FA.2.01/POL: Migrant workers in the National Health Service : report of a preliminary survey, 1980
EM.3.01/LAR: Black health workers : report of a one-day seminar for Black professional health workers : Saturday, November 19, 1983 in London
MAN/HE.1/JON: Against the Odds, Black and minority ethnic clinicians and Manchester 1948 to 2009
Record types:
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre
Language:
English
Record number:
16448265
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