Female Missionary Doctor Interview (1910's-1940's)

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Entered in Database : 2006-12-21 00:00:00
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This audio recording is raw, unedited footage of an interview with Dr M. Morton,a woman who became a Missionary Doctor and travelled to work in Africa in theearly 20th Century. Dr Morton speaks about attitudes to women and work duringand after the First World War. She also discusses her family, Christmas traditions,the strictness of her father and his attitudes towards women. She discusses herreturn to England, being a General Practitioner in London and her last job as aGovernment Medical Officer in South Africa. This audio recording last 55 minutesand 53 seconds. The original recording is held by the East Midlands Oral HistoryArchive (EMOHA ref: 757, LO/125/076).