Woodside, Moya

Society for Constructive Birth Control, Belfast, leaflets, with some National Birth Control Association material, c.1937-1942, reminiscences of work in birth control, 1981, 1984, and histories of the Edinburgh Brook Centre.

1938-1989

1/2 box

Items 1-5 were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1981 and 1985 by Mrs Woodside. In 1995 Dr June Bedford, who had worked with Mrs Woodside at the Edinburgh Brook Clinic, presented the CMAC with a number of further items associated with Moya Woodside and this Clinic.

The collection highlights Woodside's connections with the birth control movement from her appointment as Honorary Secretary of the Belfast Branch of the Society for Constructive Birth Control when it was established in 1938, to the pamphlet on the history of family planning which she wrote for the Edinburgh Brook Centre in 1984. Mrs Woodside is also noted for the collaboration with Dr Eliot Slater which resulted in the publication of Patterns of Marriage (Cassell and Co, London, 1951).

Records of her collaborative survey with Dr Eliot Slater, Patterns of Marriage (1951), said to have been sent to the Genetics Section, Institute of Psychiatry, to join Slater's other papers