Dr Laura Robson-Mainwaring

About the author

Laura works in the Modern Britain team in the Collections Expertise and Engagement department at The National Archives, providing advice to users wishing to access its collections and encouraging engagement with health records.

Laura has a research interest in branding in the medical marketplace, and disability history – primarily focused on the thalidomide scandal. She enjoys drawing on the diverse collection of records held at the archives to uncover emerging ideas around society, morality and public health provision throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

She frequently writes blogs on many aspects of the history of public health policy, health education, nursing and the cataloguing of First World War medical records.