Professor Simon Szreter, co-founder of History & Policy and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, gave a public lecture at the University of Leeds on 18th September 2014. This was in association with History & Policy Parenting Forum (Twitter: @HandPParenting), and sponsored by the School of History, University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20041/school_of_history, and Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities http://lcmh.wordpress.com. It was part of a conference entitled 'Birth: Personal Stories to Population Policies' www.birth.leeds.ac.uk.
Professor Szreter has published widely on fertility, sexuality and birth, leading the way in research into demographic, social and economic history, and creating new ways of thinking about why history is important and should have an influence today. His numerous publications include Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain 1860-1940 and Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (with Kate Fisher), and in 2009 he was awarded the Viseltear prize for outstanding contribution to the history of public health. This lecture is entitled ‘Births and the Collective Provision of Welfare - the long view, c.1550-2014’.
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