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Industry and Parliament Trust Policy Event Report
The Centre is delighted to include the report from the IPT event: Access for all to Healthcare? including Dr Roberta Bivins
Access for all to Healthcare?
21st March, 19.00pm, Houses of Parliament
We offer our sincerest thanks and congratulations to Roberta on representing the CHM, History Department and University of Warwick. Our thanks also to CHM PhD student, Martin Moore, for contributing to this event and report.
Our Fathers - Tickets on Sale
Tickets haare now on sale for performances of 'Our Fathers' on 12th and 13th June at Warwick Arts Centre. These performances will be followed by panel discussions with experts and researchers, who, with the audience, will reflect on the performance and issues relating to fatherhood in the past and present. Buy your tickets now!
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/hiding_in_the_pub/events/
Dr Angela Davis - ON R4 Womans Hour
Fifty Years of Motherhood Manuals: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01djrp5
Childcare manuals claim to offer a source of support for new mothers, but according to new research they can leave women feeling inadequate and confused as the advice is delivered in the form of an order, with the threat of dire consequences if mother or child fails to behave as expected. Angela Davis focused her research on six childcare experts over a fifty year period ranging from Frederick Truby King to Gina Ford. Are baby manuals a help or a hindrance? She joins Jenni to discuss. They are joined by Penelope Leach, one of the childcare experts discussed in the book.
Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, 1945-2000 by Angela Davis is published by Manchester University Press.