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  • Ephemera: The Notebook of Jeannie Clegg

    calendar Feb 27, 2023 · 10 min read · 1917 Clitheroe Lancashire Clitheroe Guardians workhouse Ella Wheeler Wilcox Frank Walcott Hutt Mary Torrans Lathrap Light in Darkness Two Sinners Methodist 1956 1900s  ·
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    Ephemera: The Notebook of Jeannie Clegg

    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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  • AYIT Part 3: Maternal Mortality in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian period

    calendar Mar 14, 2022 · 14 min read · 1800s 1889 1890 Edward Wadswrth William Farr Alexander Gordon Oliver Wendell-Holmes Ignaz Semmelweis Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Janet Campbell Leonard Findlay Church of England Kings College Lying-in Maternal Mortality Puerperal Fever haemorrhage Toxaemia Rickets Rotunda Ireland Dublin Herford Glasgow Scotland Pontypridd Wales Rhonda Valley  ·
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    AYIT Part 3: Maternal Mortality in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian period

    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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  • Looking for cartoons drawn by soldiers in the FWW

    calendar Mar 14, 2022 · 9 min read · FWW WW1 Blandford Camp Cartoons Soldiers cartoons FWW Art Dissertation Sapper T.Allison Lens  ·
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    Looking for cartoons drawn by soldiers in the FWW

    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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  • Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

    calendar Jan 28, 2022 · 14 min read · CAB 37/134/22 1914 rush-to-the-colours FWW recruitment Cardiff Scotland August 1914 BEF Statistics of the Military Effort Peter Simkins Regular Army Territorial Army Derek R Young Welsh Regiment Patrick Watt Ian Beckett Kitchener Keith Simpson Adrian Gregory Catriona Pennell  ·
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    Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

    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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  • AYIT Part 2: A Brief Overview of the state of Midwifery in the 1800s

    calendar Dec 7, 2021 · 14 min read · 1800s 1700s Maternal Mortality Infant Mortality Midwifery Health of the Nation Sarah Stone Birth Irvine Loudon midwives Royal College of Surgeons 1825 Sairey Gamp The Society of Apothecaries The College of Physcians 1902 Midwives act 1852 1872 1858 Obstetrical Society Sarah Fox Margaret Brazier Lying-in Dr William Farr Ladies Medical College Florence Nigthingale Lord Shaftsbury  ·
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    AYIT Part 2: A Brief Overview of the state of Midwifery in the 1800s

    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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  • AYIT Appendix 1.1: Voluntary Maternity Hospitals 1860-1930

    calendar Dec 6, 2021 · 2 min read · Voluntary Maternity Hospitals UK  ·
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    About. The map used in the article is a reconstruction of one that appears on page 79 of Craig Stephensons PhD The Voluntary Maternity Hospital: a social history of provincial institutions,with special reference to maternal mortality, 1860-1930. The original source data is given as Burdett's Hospital Yearbook, …


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  • Are YOU in this ? Bibliography

    calendar Nov 16, 2021 · 3 min read · Bibliography  ·
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    Are YOU in this ? Bibliography

    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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  • Are YOU in this ? Part 1: An Introduction

    calendar Nov 7, 2021 · 6 min read · FWW WW1 NSPCC 1914 1889 1888 Home Front CHARLIE CHAPLIN T.E.Lawrence Gladys Cooper Paul Nash Verena Holmes Growing Up David Sibley NSPCC  ·
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    Are YOU in this ? Part 1: An Introduction

    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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Robert St.John Smith

Leeds, UK.
Writing about History and Art but not 'Art History'. FWW MA Student, tempoararily stalled copy-artist, and armchair cartoonist.
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  • Ephemera: The Notebook of Jeannie Clegg
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  • Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

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  • Ephemera: The Notebook of Jeannie Clegg
  • Looking for cartoons drawn by soldiers in the FWW
  • AYIT Part 3: Maternal Mortality in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian period
  • Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.
  • AYIT Part 2: A Brief Overview of the state of Midwifery in the 1800s
  • AYIT Appendix 1.1: Voluntary Maternity Hospitals 1860-1930
  • Are YOU in this ? Bibliography
  • Are YOU in this ? Part 1: An Introduction

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