War created instant history from 1916 and ever since the history of women and the First World War has been a synonym for thinking about a distinctive female contribution, about the politics of gender and the cultural and social history of war. Looking again at the history is a way of thinking about sources and method, thinking again about how far historians ‘disturb the ground on which they stand’ or how far they build new memorials to the past.
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Coping with Miscarriage in the Nineteenth Century.
Miscarriage was a common event in the lives of women in the past as it is today. In an era where baptism was important for the salvation of babies, midwives and doctors were given instructions on how to respond to…