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The Library has recently added to the catalogue a copy of Marie Stopes' little-known first (and only) novel, Love's Creation , publi...

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) was founded 90 years ago and as part of a series of events to mark other notable milestones of 19...

This week my biography of Stella Browne, early twentieth century British feminist sex radical and socialist, was published by I B Tauris: Th...

One of the first collections acquired by the former Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now subsumed into Archives and Manuscripts) was a ...

Today an English Heritage Blue Plaque was unveiled in Cintra Park, Upper Norwood , on the house in which the eminent palaeobotanist, sex ed...

The weekend 9th to 11th July saw a fascinating conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the H. G. Wells Society , ‘H. G. Wells: From K...

When Marie Stopes (1882-1958) first began her crusade for birth control and better sexual knowledge, she was horrified to discover that a si...

The Library blog generally focuses on items in the Wellcome Library’s holdings, mentioning their catalogue descriptions in passing: it rarel...