Stories
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Society for the Study of Fertility
Date: 1950 - 2003Reference: SA/SRF/APart of: Society for Reproduction and Fertility- Archives and manuscripts
Society for the Study of Fertility
Date: 1970-1977Reference: PP/MYG/A/3/15Part of: Young, Maureen (1915-2013)- Archives and manuscripts
Society for the Study of Fertility
Date: 1956-1963Reference: PP/ASP/D.26Part of: Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Society for the Study of Fertility
Date: 1956-1964Reference: SA/FPA/A13/87Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Joint Conference of the UK Fertility Societies, British Andrology Society, British Fertility Society, Society for the Study of Fertility 2000, in Edinburgh, UK
Date: 1998 - 2001Reference: SA/SRF/A/C/5Part of: Society for Reproduction and Fertility