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Fraught fertility and making royal babies

Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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The poor child’s nurse

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

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  • Child care; Infant Mortality rate 1851-1901
  • Infant mortality : a social problem / by George Newman.
  • Infant mortality : a social problem / by George Newman.
  • Infant nutrition: healthy babies, advertising the advice services available from the Spanish Republican government to reduce infant mortality due to poor nutritition. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • A health visitor holding a small child, promoting a campaign against tuberculosis and infant mortality. Colour lithograph by A. Leroux, 1918.
  • Infantile mortality and infants milk depôts / by G.F. McCleary.
  • Advice to mothers on causes of child mortality. Colour lithograph by O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • Advice to mothers on causes of child mortality. Colour lithograph by O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • The interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals and industrial cityscape. Colour process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.
  • Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas.
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