Stories
- Article
Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
- 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.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Induced Abortion. Report of meeting of International Committee for Planned Parenthood (IPPF) Panel of Experts on Abortion
Date: Feb 1972Reference: SA/FPA/CB/17/20Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
I/N/P Induced Not Premeditated (20)
Date: c. 1937Reference: SA/NBT/S.9/10Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
I - Illegally Induced; Married
Date: c. 1937-1938Reference: SA/NBT/S.9/6Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
D/I/U, SEP, W (20): Doubtful Induced; Unmarried, Separated, Widow
Date: c. 1937Reference: SA/NBT/S.9/9Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
I/I/U. SEP, W (150): Illegally Induced; Unmarried, Separated, Widow
Date: c. 1937Reference: SA/NBT/S.9/7Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund