Stories
- Article
Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
- Article
Mixed feelings and milk siblings
A friend in need has a profound effect on Alev’s feelings about women sharing their milk in this final instalment of ‘The Breastmilk Market’.
- Article
A history of twins in science
For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.
- Article
The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Multiple Births Foundation
The Multiple Births FoundationDate: 1980s-2000sReference: SA/MBF- Books
Multiple births in Shropshire, 1601-1800 / L.C. Lloyd.
Lloyd, L. C.Date: 1969- Books
Facts about multiple births / by Elizabeth Bryan, Jane Denton and Faith Hallett.
Bryan, Elizabeth M.Date: 1997- Ephemera
- Online
[Newspaper cutting about multiple births ('Ten children at a birth') in Blackburn (1786) and Sheffield (1833)].
Date: date of publication not identified- Books
TAMBA... : the first ten years / Twins and Multiple Births Association.
Twins and Multiple Births Association.Date: 1988