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As the year ends we remind you of some of the new and established information resources and services provided for members. There’re e-journals, e-books, 3-d anatomy tools and clinical databases aplenty!

Read a brief history of the poet and wife of John Hunter, Anne, and her extraordinary collaboration with the composer Joseph Haydn.

History Day 2022: The Birth of Mankind was the first book published in English on the subject of pregnancy and birth. The book had multiple editions and was in print for over 100 years. Connecting the experience of birthing mothers and midwives to ancient and new medical scholarship, it brought important information on dealing with difficult birth presentations to a large audience who wouldn't previously have had it. The illustrations, called Birth Figures, showed these differing possible positions of the foetus at the time of birth and were considered revolutionary.