The unofficial social assistance networks of 19th Century midwives

My latest project has taken me deep into the streets and hospitals of 19th century Paris – the Paris of Les Misérables and La Bohème, where poverty and splendour lived side by side. A city of artists, revolutionaries, laundresses, seamstresses and domestic servants, at a time when childbirth was becoming medicalised. And for women who were single, poor and pregnant, it was a city that offered…

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