Angela Muir

Department: History
Discipline: History
Research Centre/Unit: Centre for Medical History

Project Summary

My current research examines the social, cultural and medical history of childbirth in eighteenth-century Wales. I am particularly interested in non-marital reproduction and the experience of childbirth for unmarried mothers, perinatal mortality, and midwifery.
 

Supervisory Team

Dr Sarah Toulalan and Dr Alun Withey

Authored Publications/Reports

Angela Muir (July 2013) Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Wales, Welsh History Review, Volume 26, Number 3, pp. 351-388