Dr Gramshaw was a successful family doctor in Yorkshire for thirty-five years, until his final desperate actions brought his professional and personal life crashing down around him. This is a fascinating and shocking story of love and lust, success and deceit, crimes and lies, adultery, bigamy and insanity.
Who killed Florence Nightingale Shore in 1920, and got away with murder? This is the true story of an unsolved crime that shocked post-War Britain Miss Shore was a nurse, like her god-mother Florence Nightingale, and had been decorated for her service in France in the First World War. Then, on a January afternoon, she was bludgeoned to death in a carriage on the Brighton line. Scotland Yard could not solve the crime, even with the help of famous criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury. But now there are new suspects, and a shocking new theory about the murderer. About the author Rosemary Cook CBE is a former Director of the Queen's Nursing Institute and a member of the steering committee of the History of Nursing Society of the Royal College of Nursing in the UK. She lives in York. The Nightingale Shore Murder won first prize in the historical non-fiction category of the Indie Book Awards 2012.
"Petticoat Government" tells the story of a great Victorian charitable enterprise - the York Home for Nurses.The home combined the provision of private nursing care with free care for the 'sick poor' of the City, and was the first of its kind in the country. It was run by the Sisters of the Community of the Holy Cross, in conjunction with a 'committee of gentlemen' that included most of the famous names in York's Victorian history. The relationship between the Sisters and the committee were not always smooth; money was always tight, there were tragedies amongst the staff, and crises in the local community to deal with - floods, epidemics and a scandal involving a local doctor that made the national papers. But the York Home succeeded in changing the lives of the poor immeasurably in the City. It's final incarnation was as a memorial to another famous York personage, Dean Arthur Purey Cust, as the Purey Cust Nursing Home. Nearly 150 years on from its foundation, this is the story of how the provision and organisation of nursing by a community enterprise supported the citizens of York through a pivotal time in British history.
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