Month: November 2022
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The Election Questionaire
On this day one-hundred years ago, Britain was in the grip of an election campaign. The polling that took place on Wednesday 15th November 1922 led to the formation of a conservative government under Bonar Law. Like other lobbyists and special interest groups, Dr. Marie Stopes wanted to influence candidates to implement her preferred agenda.…
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A debate with Lord Dawson of Penn, 1936
Seen through contemporary eyes, the birth control debate of 100-years ago was primarily about contraception, and it features religious patriarchs opposing the liberation of women. Yet a November 1936 debate at the Cambridge Union on the “control of parenthood” reveals that the agenda was more wide-ranging than it is perceived today. The motion “that the…