Stories
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Wonder Woman’s wonder women
Discover more about the women who inspired an icon: Wonder Woman’s story of bondage, bracelets and birth control.
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When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
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Thalidomide babies
In a time without scans or antenatal tests, neither medical staff nor parents were prepared for the damage to the foetus caused by the thalidomide drug.
Catalogue
- Books
Birth control and public health : a report on ten years' work of the Society for the provision of birth control clinics / with a pref. by Julian S. Huxley.
Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics.Date: 1932- Archives and manuscripts
Literature of various birth control and women's welfare clinics
Date: 1930s-1950sReference: PP/EFG/A.47Part of: Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)- Books
Birth control on main street : organizing clinics in the United States, 1916-1939 / Cathy Moran Hajo.
Hajo, Cathy Moran.Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Birth control / by Tarvez Tucker ; with a nationwide directory of women's centers, health care clinics, and referral services compiled by the Women's Action Alliance.
Tucker, Tarvez.Date: [1975], ©1975- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Control International Information Centre
Date: 1932-1987Reference: PP/EPR/F.1Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson