Education
2018 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, Dissertation: “Naval and Military Nursing c. 1763-1830”
2011 Masters of Arts, University of New Brunswick
2010 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of New Brunswick
Publications
Erin Spinney. “Servants to the hospital and the state: nurses in Plymouth and Haslar Naval Hospitals, 1775-1815.” Journal for Maritime Research 20(1) (2018): 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/21533369.2018.1513394Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Seniority, Experience, and On-the-job Training at British Naval Hospitals 1775-1815 ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850, Birkbeck, 5 April
Sites of Care and Control: Healthy Environments and Royal Navy Hospital Ships 1790-1815 American Society for Environmental History, Columbus, OH, 10-13 April
Soldiers and Military Hospitals: Orderlies, Patients, and Experiences in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Life in the Red Coat: The British Soldier 1721-1815, Derby, 27 April
Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815, History of Science, Medicine and Technology Seminar, University of Oxford, 13 May
Nurses and Literacy at Haslar and Plymouth Naval Hospitals c. 1770-1800, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Joint Conference, Vancouver, BC, 1-3 June
Ventilation, Fumigation, and the Creation of Healthy Air in British Naval Hospitals c. 1775-1815, History of Science Society Conference, Utrecht, 23-27 July
