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A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth
Any book written says as much about the author as it does about its subject,
and this volume is a prime example. I came to the topic both as an historian
and a midwife, in that order. In the early 1990s I took a degree in history,
focusing on the social and economic history of early twentieth-century Britain,
followed by a master’s degree in English Local History and a dissertation that
focused on the decline of Stourbridge Fair in Cambridge, originally one of the
largest trading fairs in the country. However, my research world, together with
my life, was turned upside down by my experience of the pregnancy and birth
of my first child in 1992. Casting around for a PhD topic, I was drawn to
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