Month: May 2022
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A Writ for Libel
On this day one-hundred years ago, 13th May 1922, Dr. Halliday Sutherland was served with a writ for libel. As he recalled in his 1934 memoir A Time to Keep: In 1919 I had become a Catholic. I knew the Church forbade artificial birth-control, but I had not the slightest interest in this controversy until…
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Neo-Malthusian Conference
The Fifth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference was held in Kingsway Hall, London from 11-14 July 1922. The Conference played a a crucial, though indirect, role in the Stopes v Sutherland libel trial. To understand why, it is useful to look at the context: Stopes (and Humphrey Roe) had opened the Mothers’ Clinic on…