Thanks to the wonders of Twitter as a way of asking academic questions and being pointed to research I didn't know existed, last week I was able to read Tim Hitchcock's superb 2013 article "Confronting the digital: or how academic history writing lost the plot". This is the first piece I've read which addresses in detail,… Continue reading The internet for historians?
Tag: men-midwives
The bespoke midwife
When do you call the midwife? In the 18th century, men gradually moved into the field of normal birthing. They did this by being 'bespoke' - prebooked.
Mistaking histories 