Event Type: HA

Takes Place: 24th November 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Online

Description: In confinement to shared community events - childbirth with its magic and its dangers is key to society. Some societies have celebrated it and others hidden it away. For many women it can be a defining moment in their lives both positive or negative. This discussion will be about Lucy Inglis research and new book that explores the history of childbirth from the ancient world to the modern day, uncovering unheard and unrecorded stories and charting the competing ideologies and lived realities that have shaped all our lives – men and women. Lucy Inglis is a historian and novelist, and occasionally a television and radio presenter. Her first book Georgian London: Into the Streets was a finalist for the History Today Longman Prize. Her second novel, Crow Mountain, won the Romantic Novelist Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year. Lucy is also the author of the international bestseller Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, which was Book of the Week for Radio 4 and The Sunday Times. She lives in London with her husband and their wire-haired dachshund.

How to book: Book via Zoom link below

Price: Free & open to all. Recordings of talk will be available to HA members.

Website: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RAepS_bhS2m0nr1hocLa6w

Organiser: HA

Lecturer: Lucy Inglis