In honour of International Women’s Day, this month’s post is another fantastic find in the RCOG Archive. While sorting through a collection of press cuttings gathered by the College in the 1970s, I stumbled across a cutting showing the front of the College’s Sussex Place premises and featuring a very conspicuous group of protesters. This…
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Pioneers: Margaret Fairlie, FRCOG (1891-1963)
This time (and in time for International Women’s Day), our Pioneers series takes a look at one of the early female Fellows of our College. When the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was founded in 1929, many practicing female gynaecologists initially hesitated to join. According to Fletcher Shaw’s history of the College, whilst they…
Fantastic Finds for Friday: Votes for Women!
Although the purpose of this blog is to bring you items which have been ‘stumbled’ upon as I work my way through my daily tasks in the College Archive, this week’s Fantastic Find really is an unexpected find! I have been looking through some papers of the General Secretary of the Midwives’ Institute, dating from…
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Heritage Blog 