Stories
- Article
Wonder Woman’s wonder women
Discover more about the women who inspired an icon: Wonder Woman’s story of bondage, bracelets and birth control.
- Article
Thalidomide babies
In a time without scans or antenatal tests, neither medical staff nor parents were prepared for the damage to the foetus caused by the thalidomide drug.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Marie Stopes, A Letter to Working Mothers 1931 (Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control)
Reference: SA/HVA/D.8/4Part of: Health Visitors' Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Belfast Mothers' Welfare Clinic ([Society for] Constructive Birth Control (CBC))/Northern Ireland FPA
Date: 1935-1967Reference: SA/FPA/A13/2Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Marie C Stopes. 'The First Five Thousand'. First Report of the First British Birth Control Clinic [Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, Holloway].
Date: 1925Reference: SA/FPA/SR24C/6Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Preliminary notes on various technical aspects of the control of conception : based on the analysed data from ten thousand cases attending the pioneer Mothers' Clinic, London / by Marie Carmichael Stopes.
Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958.Date: 1933- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'On some aspects of Contraception for Indian Women' by Marie C Stopes, published by Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, 108 Whitfield St
Date: 1952Reference: SA/FPA/NK/233/25Part of: Family Planning Association