Midwives
Midwifery section of the UKCHNM
The aim of this section is to provide midwifery specific information and to fast route those in search of material on the history of midwifery to relevant sections on the website.
These will be aimed primarily at historians but will also be open to anyone interested in the history of midwifery at any stage of their careers, beginning at undergraduate level.
Many useful resources on midwifery history are scattered in a range of diverse locations from national archives and museums to bookshelves on maternity wards and private collections. One of the aims of the website is to act as a repository of information on sources and information with the intention of making them more widely available.
Contact us
Suggestions on how to improve the midwifery section web pages are welcome. If readers wish to make further contributions to the material on the website, contact the midwife liaison Janette Allotey: janette.allotey@manchester.ac.uk
Archives
- Midwifery genealogy
Several midwifery enquiries to the UKCHNM website have recently been from members of the public interested in tracing a family member's registration as a midwife or those wishing to find out more details about their own birth. Although the website is not able to deal with enquiries of a genealogical nature, there are a few bits of advice.
Publications
- Feature article
- Office of midwife: some historical background (PDF, 80 KB)
Dr Jean Donnison
- Office of midwife: some historical background (PDF, 80 KB)
- Bibliographies: Midwives and midwifery
- Theses and dissertations
- Function of the pelvis: Janette Allotey
- From ritual to regulation?: Anne Cameron
- Puerperal fever controversies: Christine Hallett
- Modernising midwifery: Aya Homei
- The nurse in Edinburgh c.1760-1860: Barbara Mortimer
- Obstetric ultrasound technology in Scotland: Debbie Nicholson
- Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital: Alison Nuttall
- Scottish midwives 1916-1983: Lindsay Reid
- Book review
- The malleus maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft
Hans Peter Broedel (Reviewed by Dr Janette Allotey)
- The malleus maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft
Events and seminars
Postgraduate
- Postgraduate research
- Postgraduate taught
