tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post7132687830959649124..comments2022-10-21T14:13:40.204+01:00Comments on Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian: Twitter is a limited forum for discussing 1920s contraceptionLesley Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302560115903080937noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post-51398734486419514412014-10-14T09:08:43.347+01:002014-10-14T09:08:43.347+01:00I read that when it first came out in the 1970s, a...I read that when it first came out in the 1970s, and while it's a taster of the letters written to Stopes, I'm not altogether happy about the principles of selection, having, as an archivist, catalogued the 1000s that Stopes received, of which it represents a minute and not particularly representative percentage.Lesley Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302560115903080937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post-31676625680369199152014-10-12T07:09:21.287+01:002014-10-12T07:09:21.287+01:00http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Dr-Stopes-Sex-1920s/dp/...http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Dr-Stopes-Sex-1920s/dp/0140055363/<br />Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265595595318070025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post-73025166081858570742014-10-06T21:15:26.623+01:002014-10-06T21:15:26.623+01:00Viv Groskup's Guardian episode blogs on the to...Viv Groskup's Guardian episode blogs on the topic are hilarious; I read them without watching the show.Jonquilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00394073543168209042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post-41875233948195550562014-10-06T20:22:45.318+01:002014-10-06T20:22:45.318+01:00Plotwise, last time she relied on a man for such t...Plotwise, last time she relied on a man for such things she ended up with a dead Turkish diplomat in her bed...Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15102166089045048403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post-28716389638773226442014-10-06T20:08:59.795+01:002014-10-06T20:08:59.795+01:00I wouldn't think that would mean she was neces...I wouldn't think that would mean she was necessarily au fait with the latest in contraceptive technology (given the number of women who apparently left all that sort of thing up to their husbands)Lesley Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302560115903080937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6738724373406097909.post-63316522897974020802014-10-06T14:12:15.016+01:002014-10-06T14:12:15.016+01:00The character in question is a widow with one chil...The character in question is a widow with one child (not that I've watched it either, but the Radio Times tells me far more than I need to know).Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15102166089045048403noreply@blogger.com