title: A glance back in time: the nursing notes of Edwina Perkins.
abstract: Edwina Perkins was a student nurse in South Wales between 1937 and 1941. This article reviews her nursing notebooks, their context and relation to current practice. The notebooks are examined with regard to their historical contribution, enhancing insights into nursing past and present, and, from a more personal perspective, Edwina's life as a nurse and the process of discovering more about her.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea, Wales.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom