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From my search to track down First World War soldier-drawn cartoons for my dissertation, and the route through which I acquired items, I ended up with quite a collection of war-related ephemera (which is still growing). It seems a shame for it to just sit in boxes so I thought I would try and do something interesting — …
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Figure 1. Victorian Cabinet Memoriam Card, Private collection © RSJS Introduction In part 2, we looked at the state of midwifery in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, a practice that was being hamstrung by both the tripartite of the medical profession and by contemporary attitudes towards women. In this …
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Blandford Camp Autograph Book, 21 December 1918. Private collection. © RSJS. Updated May 22 Thank you to all those who have got in touch so far. This page has been updated both in the dissertation scope and with the addition of an FAQ. Dissertation Research A survey of British First World War cartoons, drawn by …
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I am currently teaching myself R and R Studio and, as someone who has spent many an hour typing up tables from old documents, I am planning to put my datasets into a GitHub repository along with the code for anyone who might find them useful. I am not quite at that stage yet but wanted to post this example as it came …
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Figure 1. Photograph of Mrs Mcdonald, a midwife in Argyll, c1866. © National Records of Scotland(GD1/1208/1/52). Martha used to come, the midwife. She wasn't certified or anything, but she was one of the good old midwives and it was only a few shillings for a confinement. I've heard m'mother say that she used to …
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The following will be updated when new articles appear in Are YOU in this? Primary Sources British Newspaper Archive Berks and Oxon Advertiser Leeds Times Reports 1911 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table1, Table 3. Office for National Statistics; 2020 Birth Summary Tables, England and …
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Figure 1. 1915 Recruitment Poster designed by Sir Baden-Powell. © IWM (Art. IWM PST 2712). Introduction In 1914, on the eve of the war, the population of the United Kingdom was approximately forty-five million with just under fifty percent aged twenty-five and under.1 This series of articles is going to investigate …
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