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):
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
Health and Care Scotland March 20, 2022 – Scottish midwives on the frontier
Health and Care Scotland December 20, 2021 -Long read – the CMO who spoke the unspeakable
Scottish Review December 5, 2021 – In search of the next medical breakthrough
Scottish Review August 24, 2021 – Michael Gove’s finest hour (with a polecat),the destruction of Erasmus and how educational autarky just breeds ignorance
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
Scottish Review May 12, 2021 Sailing under the flag of Cruel Britannia
Midwives Magazine January 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 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-sir-wilson-jameson-the-pioneer-who-blazed-trail-for-covid-19-fight-5jk9px22t
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
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