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'The Last Taboo of Motherhood' project team are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a generous Research Enrichment - Public Engagement Award by the Wellcome Trust.

This will fund a new project with for the development of a series of audio pieces, which will highlight our work on maternal mental illness in the twentieth century. We have also received further funding from ÌÇÐÄTV University’s Arts & Humanities Impact Award which will enable us to extend the reach of the project to a wider range of audiences. We will be providing further updates on this exciting project over the coming months on our project website.

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Congratulations to Sophie Greenway on the successful examination of her PhD ‘Growing Well: Dirt and Health in the Home and Garden in Britain, 1930-1970'.

If anyone is interested in finding out about the history of composting or using bicarbonate of soda to keep your vegetables green, basically why we do and how we did the things we do in the house and who does it, then Sophie is the person to ask! It’s a thesis that has important things to say to the environmental debate of today and Sophie will be looking to develop some of those ideas in her upcoming fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Studies here at ÌÇÐÄTV.

Despite its prevalence and relevance to the current day, maternal mental illness in the twentieth century has attracted scant historical attention. This Wellcome Trust funded project ‘The Last Taboo of Motherhood?’ aims to address this absence, by exploring the history of maternal mental illness in twentieth-century Britain.

This research is being undertaken by Professor Hilary Marland, Dr Fabiola Creed and Dr Kelly Couzens. The project website has just been launched and new posts will be added in the coming months.