Timeline Thursday 17 March 1921

Events on Thursday 17 March 1921 1

• 1921 First birth control clinic opens in Britain Marie Stopes opens the Mothers' Clinic in London Marie Stopes opened the Mothers' Clinic in Holloway, north London, offering free birth control advice to married women. It was the first clinic of its kind in the British Empire. The clinic's approach became a model for family planning services that spread across Britain in following decades.