Angela Muir
I'm a Wellcome Trust funded PhD candidate at the University of Exeter researching the experience of giving birth in eighteenth-century Wales at the Centre for Medical History. My current research examines the social, cultural and medical history of childbirth in eighteenth-century Wales. I am particularly interested in illegitimacy, courtship, the experience of reproduction and childbirth for unmarried mothers, perinatal mortality, and midwifery.
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Some Resources for Learning about Britain’s Slave Past
7 June 2020
It’s been years since I’ve posted, and that’s because I’ve been busy in my new post as a Lecturer in British Social and Cultural History at the University of...
9 August 2016
**Content warning: this post contains details of a sexual nature which some readers may find offensive or upsetting** In keeping with last week’s raunchy theme, I thought I’d...
Wait, that’s not a prayer! When parish records turn raunchy
2 August 2016
Anyone who’s spent countless hours researching in the archives knows the feeling of elation that comes over you when you find that proverbial needle in the haystack. Whether it’s...
Book Review – Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
20 June 2016
Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany by Margaret Brannan Lewis (Routledge, 2016), 204 pages, £95 Hardcover, £34.99 Kindle Infanticide and Abortion...