The Summer 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue is focused on childcare and includes rich and varied themed contributions across continents and generations.
The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
Contents
- Alison T. McCall on Childcare and the Education (Scotland) Act 1872: Aberdeen Day Nursery 1871-1874, 4
- Elisabeth M. Yang on From Medical Expert to Mother: Health Advice forTiny Moral and Spiritual Agents in Late-Nineteenth Century and Early-Twentieth Century America, 8
- Rosa Schling on ‘In those days we occupied everything all the time’: Collecting Histories of Childcare Activism in London, 15
Doing History
- Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Dr John Cunningham on The Tuam Oral History Project, 21
From the Archive
- Kornelia Cepok on Women and Childcare in the Archive: Froebelian Women in London’s North, 24
Book Reviews
- Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich (eds), Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy, Rochester Studies in Medical History, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2024, 31
- Jessica Cox, Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cheltenham: The History Press, 2023, 32
- Katherine Harvey, The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages, London: Reaktion Books, 2021, 33
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WHN Members who have subscribed to the print edition will receive a printed copy shortly. The PDF edition (ISSN 2752-6704) includes high quality photographs (and in colour where available) as well as active hyper-links.
Women’s History Today Summer 2024
The Summer 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. The PDF version is free to all members
£5.00 – £12.00
