A talk from Professor Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield) and Dr. Rosemary Cresswell (University of Hull). St John Ambulance established first aid huts and posts on the roads and at the seaside, and the counties south of London were particularly busy areas for accidents. This presentation will explore the role of first aiders in the period before the NHS, and will bring some of the skills they performed to life with re-enactments. (Rosemary and Barry have been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for their research on the history of first aid in Britain and France between 1909 and 1989).

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