Tag: Women’s health Records and researchJust a pill: 60 years of the contraceptive pill on the NHSSaturday 4 December 2021On 20 January 1961 Searle & Co wrote to the Chief Medical Officer of...Records and researchPessaries to French letters: Contraceptives before the pillWednesday 1 December 2021On 4 December 1961, the contraceptive pill was introduced on the NHS in the...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 researchThe birds and the bees: Sex education in the early 20th centuryThursday 11 June 2020In 1914 a very concerned father sent a letter to the school teaching his...Records and researchMistaken identity: Elizabeth Burley and the Contagious Diseases ActsThursday 14 March 2019Let those who have never seen a ship of war, picture to themselves a...Records and researchThe Inter-Departmental Committee on AbortionThursday 26 October 2017This blog contains details that some readers may find distressing. ‘If abortion were necessarily fatal...