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Out now is the Looking Forward edition! This issue also looks at the personalisation of birth, and midwives getting to know their patients on their journey through childbirth.

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2020-02-05

Plates from William Smellie's 'Theory and Practice of Midwifery' (1752). Smellie, a Lanarkshire-born 'man-midwife' was known for pioneering a scientific approach to midwifery and developing safer obstetrical forceps

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2019-05-05

On International Day of the Midwife here is a handy guide - James Wolveridge's C17th midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office'

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2019-05-05

Fig. 56 - On the theory and practice of midwifery (1855) https://t.co/Dv1aE3pWla

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2019-05-04

Fig. 100 - On the theory and practice of midwifery (1855) https://t.co/mjozdmVpQD

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2019-05-04

👩‍⚕️🥼The achievements of early-modern midwives such as Jane Sharp are all the more impressive considering that women were excluded from formal medical education. Sharp’s handbook is among the most influential 17th c. texts on midwifery.

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2019-03-09

Come down to the Library today at 3pm to find out more about midwifery in Victorian Manchester, and get an insight into the research being carried out on our Special Collections. Please note some images are of a graphic nature. https://t.co/SPNWOwC7kc

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2019-02-26

Tomorrow, 3-4pm, you have a special opportunity to discover some of the Library's current research! Our Collections Encounter will explore Victorian midwifery through our paintings, books and archives. It's free with no need to book. https://t.co/UR3pzkqNnG

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2019-02-25

For Midwives magazine, a new training initiative!

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2018-07-19

Hello Boys!

From “The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered” by Jane Sharp (1671)

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2018-03-27

Coming up tomorrow on the Medieval Manuscripts Blog: our new blogpost by on the subject of medieval midwifery (here's a sneak preview)

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2018-03-20

Realised haven't posted on here for while because I keep using Instagram! (drawntomedicine) if you'd like to follow. For die hard Twitter-folk some recent work... Love drawing babies (and tea)

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2018-01-16

Plates from C18th Scottish man-midwife William Smellie's 'Theory and Practice of Midwifery' (1752) on

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2017-05-05

Day 8 em Jane Sharp, 1st woman to write midwifery text, The midwives book (1671) (image )

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2017-03-08

James Wolveridge's C17th practical midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office'

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2016-05-31

Birth chairs and midwifery in the 17thc, Wolveridge's 'Expert Midwives Handmaid'

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2015-11-04

It's ! See our post on Madame du Coudray: A in a Man's World http://t.co/a1pmHCvRYx

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2014-10-10

Happy From Spratt's 1848 dissected plates of many important subjects in

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2014-10-10

Maygrier's 1833 text illustrates version -- with a rolled up sleeve and gloveless hand.

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2014-09-03