MidwifeInfo.com - A Short History of Midwifery
- Describes the profession from ancient times onwards. Also provides information on the beginnings in America, the increasing medicalization of childbirth, modern nurse-midwifery and current trends. Further reading also offered.
- http://www.midwifeinfo.com/content/view/32/30/

About Midwives and Midwifery
- A collection of net links on the history of midwives and midwifery, from About.com.
- http://womenshistory.about.com/od/midwives/

Royal College Of Midwives: History
- Details the roots, challenges and emergence of the RCM in the UK from 1881 to the present day.
- http://www.rcm.org.uk/rcm/pages/aboutus.php?id=3

Delivering Childbirth - The Orlando Project
- Paper which researches novels written by women during the 18th century on the subject. Compares the realities with the way in which writings of the time presented the experience.
- http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/Childbirth.htm

Biography of Mary Breckinridge
- Regarded as the first to bring nurse-midwifery to the United States and founder of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. Includes photographs, illustrations and a list of further reading.
- http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/press/breckinridge.html

Midwives of Washington
- Offers a complete timeline from 1917 through to the present day.
- http://www.midwivesofwa.org/mwhistory1.htm

Midwifery in Wisconsin
- Covers the period from 1850 - 1905. Describes general practices and includes a list for further reading.
- http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello/FLVA/voices/839/voices/midwives/

Contributions by the Midwives of Antiquity to the Art and Science of Modern Medicine
- Article which lists and gives brief descriptions of notable practitioners from ancient through to new world times. Also details the changeable attitudes towards the profession.
- http://www.collegeofmidwives.org/legal_legislative01/HxMfryIndex01/antiqmdw.htm

Who Was Martha Ballard?
- Explores the diary of a midwife from the Massachusetts town of Oxford between the years of 1785 until 1813. Includes extracts, stories, themes and a search function.
- http://dohistory.org/martha/index.html

Kate Sheppard Midwifery - History of Midwifery
- Features a brief general overview as well as focusing on New Zealand's past to the recent present.
- http://www.ksmidwifery.co.nz/history.shtml

The History of Midwifery and Childbirth - A Time Line
- Offers a time line of childbirth and midwifery in America. Includes further links to books of interest and organizations mentioned within.
- http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/timeline.asp