Posts by Laura Robson-Mainwaring Records and researchElectro-therapeutic cures in the Victorian AgeMonday 30 May 2022The Victorian period saw the introduction of countless imaginative and bizarre electronic devices that...Records and researchImproving the nation’s stock for ‘Great and Greater Britain’: Eugenics in the 1920sWednesday 30 March 2022The practice of eugenics - that is, selectively encouraging people with what are perceived...Records and researchFamily planning in the 1920s: Marie Stopes and the ‘wise precaution of delay’Tuesday 29 March 2022was published. Aimed at married couples, it became an instant bestseller and went through...Records and researchCharles Harold Moore: The Victorian one-legged champion swimmerFriday 3 September 2021Charles Harold Moore was a champion one-legged swimmer in the Victorian period. Moore began...Records and researchFighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part two): First World War medical recordsFriday 30 July 2021The impact of the influenza on persons from the front can be discovered using...Records and researchFighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part one)Tuesday 27 July 2021Just over a century ago, an unusually deadly influenza pandemic broke out, killing an...Records and researchEthel Gordon Fenwick: The story of the first State Registered NurseWednesday 12 May 2021On 23 December 1919, after decades of campaigning, the Nurses Registration Act was passed,...Records and research‘The industrial bedlam of modern Britain’: The problem of noise in the 1950s and 60sTuesday 17 November 2020Historical evidence is dominated by visual materials, from archival manuscripts and newspaper print to...Records and research‘Peace to millions of women’: A history of the cervical smear testMonday 15 June 2020This blog, published as part of Cervical Screening Awareness Week (15-21 June 2020), looks...Records and researchLady in the Archives: The life of Florence Nightingale (part two)Thursday 14 May 2020Florence Nightingale, famous for her work as a nurse and social reformer, was born...Records and researchLady in the Archives: The life of Florence Nightingale (part one)Tuesday 12 May 2020Florence Nightingale, famous for her work as a nurse and social reformer, was born...Records and researchThalidomide: Limb-fitting centresMonday 9 December 2019Thalidomide was one of the worst man-made medical disasters in history and had far-reaching...
