Month: September 2014
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Tuberculosis, Heredity and Environment
Halliday Sutherland was the defendant in the celebrated 1923 “Birth Control Libel Trial,”—Stopes v. Sutherland. Historians cite only his 1919 conversion to Catholicism as the reason for his criticism of Marie Stopes in his 1921 book, Birth Control. The truth is more complex than that. The background to the case is partially revealed when you understand the interplay…
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Why I set up this website.
by Mark Sutherland, grandson of Halliday Sutherland The birth control movement arose at the beginning of the twentieth century from Eugenics and Neo-Malthusianism. In the United States, Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinics aimed to reduce the birth rates of Jews, Catholics and African-Americans, while in Britain, Marie Stopes aimed to reduce the numbers of progeny from…
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The Terror of the Glen
In 1890, when Halliday was a boy of eight, his family went on holiday in Scotland. The holiday was a memorable one, but for the wrong reasons “Wanted, a detective – to arrest the flight of time.” These strange words, heard by me as a boy of eight, were spoken by a man who lodged one summer…