“The conference proceedings of the 5th workshop of the Section Historical Nursing Research in Berlin 2019 were published in September. Edited by Katharina Genz, Anja Katharina Peters and Andrea Thiekötter, the book “Pflege und Politik im Spiegel der Zeit” [Nursing and Politics in the Mirror of Time] contains interesting articles, partially written by members, for example by Prof Anne Kellner about the persistence of the conflict between sisterhoods and trade unions and Peters together with Robert Parzer about Margarete Lungershausen as a nurse, midwife, National Socialist, functionary and president of the German Nurses Society”.