By By Ashleigh Blackwood The development of maternity clothing is often considered to be a modern phenomenon by both the modern public and fashion industry. As Sandra Matthews explains, the public attention of this specific corner of the clothing market through photography and advertising trends in the 1950s which ‘[held their]
By Medicine, the weather and Wilkes
I have recently been reading volume 2 of the journal of Dr Richard Wilkes, a doctor working in Staffordshire in the eighteenth century. His observations, collected together into these volumes by his descendants, are a real treat containing observations about what has been reported in the news, the weather and the medical cases