Stories
- Article
Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
- In pictures
The dangers of women’s speech
For centuries, women have been ridiculed and punished for excessive talking, despite the fact that men gossip just as much.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
History 1 - Pioneers
Date: Late 19th century-mid 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.1-5Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
London Association - History to 1969
Date: 1969Reference: SA/MWF/C.122Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
'Women in Medicine', typescript, 'Leeds - Boots' Pharmacists' Association' 9 Feb 1950
Date: 1950Reference: SA/MWF/C.7/1Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Flyer for Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, A History of Women in Medicine, 1938
Date: 1938Reference: SA/MWF/C.9/6Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
History 3 - Woman in Medicine: Various Papers
Date: 1910-1980Reference: SA/MWF/C.7-9Part of: Medical Women's Federation