Photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive

Photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive, 1955. A photograph of nurses at St Olaves Hospital in Rotherhithe, London. The caption on the back of the image reads: "INTERNATIONAL RECRUITS AT LONDON HOSPITAL. Miss Margaret Nicoll, Matron of St. Olaves Hospital, Rotherhithe likes an international staff, for the students include girls from Italy, France, Spain, Norway, the Lebanon, Jamaica, Nigeria, Syria ect. In addition to girls from England, Ireland and Scotland. Miss Nicoll herself recruited many of these girls whilst on holiday abroad" .

Communities and Crowds was a research project that aimed to share and preserve African-Caribbean history in the United Kingdom during the pre and post Windrush era. Through the project, the National Science and Media Museum worked with a group of volunteers from Bradford to select and digitise a body of photographs from the Daily Herald Photographic Archive.

The Daily Herald was a British national newspaper published between 1912 and 1964, and became the top-selling newspaper in the world, with a monthly circulation of more than 2 million. Throughout its 50 years of publication, the newspaper archived 3.5 million photographs, contact sheets and glass negatives.