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.
- In pictures
Testimonies of birth
A 1980s film about childbirth explores how the experience felt for the women featured and offers a glimpse into the big birthing trends of the day.
- In pictures
The best place for giving birth
Hospital births are now often seen as the safest option – but this was not always the case. Tania Staras tracks trends in where women gave birth, and what led to the move from home to hospital.
- In pictures
The birth of ante-natal classes
Is childbirth an athletic feat? Kathleen Vaughan certainly thought so, developing the first modern exercise class for women in pregnancy.
Catalogue
- Books
Birth book / Raven Lang.
Lang, RavenDate: [1972]- Books
Birth control in Asia : a report of a conference held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, November 24-25, 1933.
Fielding, M. L. (Michael L.)Date: [1935]- Books
Birth control exposed / by Halliday G. Sutherland.
Sutherland, Halliday, 1882-1960.Date: [1925]- Books
Birth control in Germany / by Vera Houghton.
Houghton, Vera.Date: 1952- 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
Events
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Monstrous Births in the Middle Ages
Online
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- Discussion
Marie Stopes’ Eugenics, Feminism and Birth Control
Online | In our building
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- British Sign Language
- Discussion
Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland
Online
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- Auto-captioned