title: A brief history of the Royal College of Nursing History of Nursing Society and its journal, 1983-1994. Part I - the early years.
abstract: In this two-part overview of the history of the History of Nursing Society and its journal, Monica Baly traces some of the key issues, personalities and events in the life of the longest-running history of nursing group in the world. Part 1 covers the early years and the struggle to construct a workable constitution within the Royal College of Nursing, to recruit members and to publish original research.
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authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baly
mesh_terms: D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom