No one warned me that this week was “Eugenics Week” in Britain, so recent events took me by surprise. In my previous post, I discussed the resignation of Andrew Sabisky as an adviser to the government of Boris Johnson. In this post, I discuss how opposition to eugenics has changed over the years. On Sunday…

Marie Stopes biography is an article on the Biography Online website. This article, on the other hand, is about Dr Halliday Sutherland and in it, I comment on how Dr Sutherland is depicted in the Marie Stopes Biography article. There are three parts in particular on which I have comments to make: “She also became very well known for her work…

The “History” section of allday.com recently published this article: “In 1918, She Taught The Public How To Actually Enjoy Sex With Her Scandalous Book” by Jennifer Wirth Jennifer Wirth’s article on allday.com concerns the publication of Married Love by Marie Stopes in March 1918. Dr Halliday Sutherland is mentioned, though not by name: “After the book [Married Love]…

The “Roman Catholic doctor” three-word bio persists in this article on atlasobscura.com: How a 1918 author introduced the world to the concept of female pleasure. I contacted the website to make my comments known (the headings refer to the appropriate parts of the article on which I have commented): A Roman Catholic doctor named Halliday Sutherland even…