ABSTRACT
If history is common to us all, what makes a historian? And, more specifically, a midwife historian? This chapter will explore some aspects of this side of a midwifery career.
The scene is the sitting room of a flat belonging to Mary, a retired midwife. We have not met before and I am there in my role as midwife historian. We have introduced ourselves, had tea and chatted to break the ice. Now, the tape recorder is running and Mary (MM) is telling me (LR) about being a midwife in the 1940s and 1950s:
MM: (interrupting her train of thought) Are you a midwife yourself?
