This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the in-house review (Revalida) program among midwifery graduates of batch 2022 in the previous licensure board exams for midwives last 2023. This study used a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred thirty-five graduate midwives participated voluntarily in the study using a purposive…[Read more]

It is an article on Premchand’s most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this…[Read more]

Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

This blog post examines the story of mid-1915, when the Camden Patriotic Fund took over Australia Day fundraising, directing proceeds to the Red Cross for Australian wounded. Supporting the Camden Red Cross, the fund raised substantial funds through various events. Meanwhile, on a national scale, Australia Day’s significance evolved, and in 1915,…[Read more]

This presentation provides an overview of the Great War’s impact on the town of Camden, including its effects, serving overseas and on the homefront, and the collective memory of Camden and the Great War.

Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

The Camden Red Cross exhibition at Camden Library in August 2024 showcased the historical contributions of local women to the Red Cross during World Wars I and II. Women from the Camden district played a pivotal role in supporting soldiers and shaping the narrative of the Australian Red Cross, creating over 20,300 articles in 40,000 volunteer…[Read more]

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw thousands of women across rural Australia set up local Red Cross branches. Country women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, King and Country, while they were encouraged to see themselves as ‘ministering angels’ dutifully serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Their successes meant that by 1918…[Read more]

Thousands of women rallied to the call of the wife of the Governor-General and formed Red Cross branches across Australia at the outbreak of the First World War. Women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, the King and Country and were encouraged to see themselves as ‘guardian angels’ serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Local Red Cross b…[Read more]

This blog post examines how the Australian Red Cross mobilized women during World War I as ‘Angels of Mercy’ and ‘ministering angels’ to provide aid with a strong moral overtone. The organisation used motherhood imagery to rally support, portraying itself as the ‘Greatest Mother in the World’. This approach effectively garnered community backing…[Read more]

This chapter considers the ways in which classics education takes place within the drama studio; the understandings of ancient theatre practice and its current meanings which are (explicitly or tacitly) promulgated within studio settings; and the implications of dominant training models and practices for wider cultural understandings and…[Read more]

This chapter considers the ways in which classics education takes place within the drama studio; the understandings of ancient theatre practice and its current meanings which are (explicitly or tacitly) promulgated within studio settings; and the implications of dominant training models and practices for wider cultural understandings and…[Read more]

As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

This blog post details a talk by Dr Ian Willis OAM that challenges myths of WWI at the 2024 Australian Historical Association conference. He examines the Australian military’s response to sick and wounded soldiers and the role of the British Red Cross. The conference aims to uncover home truths and dispel historical myths. Dr Willis’s research…[Read more]

The sick and wounded soldier was the central actor in the performance of Red Cross care during the First World War. This paper uses Jeffrey Reznick’s ‘culture of caregiving’ in his book Healing the Nation to examine the role of the British Red Cross in New South Wales in the convalescent stage in the lines of communications in the early month…[Read more]

How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]