I write for a number of publications. Here’s a few of them. Some may require a subscription (but those subs pay for writing by the likes of me):
Health and Care Scotland Oct 13, 2024 the public health catastrophe which killed tens of thousands of British children through drinking infected milk.
The Herald Oct 5, 2024 Eighty years since the first effective TB drugs saved two young women in Gothenburg and Minnesota
Pulse Today Oct 4, 2024 Joe Collings, the first NHS whistleblower who exposed the failings in general practice
Health and Care Scotland July 26, 2024 How a dose of Orwell might help sort the ills of the NHS
Health and Care Scotland June 13,2024, Scotland’s earlier medical Tartan Army: warum ein Arzt sprechen Deutsch sollte….
The Times Mar 3, 2024 Walter Elliot, the axe-wielding medical superhero who saved Parliament from destruction
Civil Service World magazine Spring 2024 Civil Servants and the battle with plain English pp 62 and 63
East Lothian Life Spring 2024 the Firth of Forth and the end of WW1 and the start of WW2
Health and Care Scotland Oct 23, 2023 Andrew Watt Kay, Scotland’s first chief scientist
Nursing Times Sep 13, 2023 three great pioneers of nursing research – Lisbeth Hockey, Cicely Saunders and Elsie Stephenson
Health and Care Scotland July 9, 2023 Growing pains, innovations and investment in the Scottish NHS (includes the first NHS joke)
BBC Radio Scotland interview July 8, 2023 Weekend GMS on NHS history. Comes in at 37 minutes
East Lothian Life summer 2023 Whatton Lodge and the run-up to the NHS
Health and Care Scotland July 5, 2023 the birth of the Scottish NHS
Civil Service World July 5, 2023 The Civil Servants who helped build the National Health Service
Health and Care Scotland May 8, 2023 Archie Cochrane and Galashiels
Health and Care Scotland April 15, 2023 Four centuries of bringing maternity care in Aberdeen
Sunday Post April 16, 2023 Advice to young surgeons – learn German, get a garden shed, and ignore rubbish remarks by the editor of the BMJ.
Sunday Post February 27, 2023 Archie Cochrane, father of evidence-based medicine
Health and Care Scotland October 24,2022 Privatisation in reverse and the only 4-star hotel in the NHS – the Golden Jubilee Hospital, Clydebank
Health and Care Scotland October 15, 2022 Queen’s Nurses
Sunday Post July 17, 2022 Ken and Noreen Murray, an ordinary Edinburgh couple who left an extraordinary legacy
The Baron June 1, 2022 The Reuters reporter who was also a fine poet
Sunday Post April 18, 2022 – The World Ended Tonight – Ukraine and Guernica
Health and Care Scotland April 4, 2022 – TB and the Edinburgh physician
The Times March 22, 2022 Scotland led the fight against TB but the battle isn’t over yet Times pdf
East Lothian Life March 2022 East Lothian and TB
Health and Care Scotland March 20, 2022 – Scottish midwives on the frontier – Mary Breckinridge
Health and Care Scotland December 20, 2021 – Long read – the CMO who spoke the unspeakable
The Race to Beat a Silent Killer – the discovery of insulin, mercy dash across Europe, Nobel rumpus, and naturally-produced opiates Sunday Post, June 31, 2021
The Baron Feb 11, 2021 Godfrey Hodgson, the journalists’ journalist
Midwives Magazine Jan, 2021 Enquiring Minds (pp 33-35). No byline. Pdf: midwives magazine Jan 2021
Edinburgh TB x-ray campaign Sunday Post, December 27, 2020, Best viewed with the 1958 British Pathe clip
Henry Dundas Scottish Legal News, October 26, 2020
Longniddry Piggery Scottish Housing News, October 26, 2020
The Nation’s Doctor: The Aberdonian who brought public health to the airwaves BBC Scotland Weekend GMS podcast, October 18, 2020
No statue of limitations on the limitations of statues Edinburgh Reporter, August 2, 2020
Sir Wilson Jameson and WHO The Herald, April 26, 2020 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18406166.sir-wilson-jameson-aberdonian-became-britains-doctor-ww2-led-uk-first-ever-assembly/
Available as word document: Herald Jameson WW2 CMO
Sir Wilson Jameson The Times, March 31, 2020 As a pdf Times scan
Cultivate Honesty An editorial for the Journal of Advanced Nursing, January 2020, extolling the value of nursing history in the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14302
Band of Sisters British Medical Journal, Christmas 2019 on the Scottish Women’s Hospital at Royaumont. You can listen to it too (7 mins) BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6747
Band of sisters in Word. Error about the real Margaret Fairlie
UK/US special relationship forged first by midwives and nurses Midwives Magazine autumn 2018
Scottish midwives in Kentucky Sunday Post June 2018
Aberdeen and the birth of the NHS, Press and Journal, June 2018
Bevan’s backroom boys The Herald July 2018
The Bright spark who lit up Glasgow, British Medical Journal, Christmas 2017 BMJ 2017;359:j5597 Also available here: BMJ John Macintyre Christmas piece 1
Doctors on Film British Medical Journal, Christmas 2016 BMJ 2016;355:i6172
Nurses on Film Nursing Standard, July 2017 https://journals.rcni.com/doi/abs/10.7748/ns.31.46.26.s24
The Mountain Midwives Midwives Magazine Royal College of Midwives, March 2014
Unfortunately, some links in earlier History Company posts no longer work because other sites have scrapped their archive pages. The Scottish Review is one of them. – so here’s my SR pieces on
I have written two other pieces on Sir John:
Life and Work November 2013 chrisholme.files.wordpress.com/…/john-crofton-scottish-review.pdf
Guest blog for the RCPI Heritage Centre July 2014
The History Company 
