Posts by Laura Robson-Mainwaring 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...
