Stories
- 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.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
- Article
A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
Catalogue
- Books
Das welsche Spital an der Kleinseite und seine Stellung in der Mutter-und Kind-Fürsorge vor den Josephinischen Reformen (1602-1789) / Petr Svobodný.
Svobodný, Petr.Date: 1989- Archives and manuscripts
Hinden, Elchon
Date: Jul 1962 - Jan 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/20/16/51Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Videos
Health before the NHS. A Medical Revolution.
Date: 2012- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF- Archives and manuscripts
Dally, Ann Gwendolen, and Dally, Peter John
Dally, Ann Gwendolen (1926-2007)Date: 1953-1991Reference: PP/DAL