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Call the Midwife
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| Name: | Call the Midwife |
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| Date(s): | 15 January 2012 – ongoing |
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| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
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Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse-midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s. The series was created by Heidi Thomas, originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth who worked with the Community of St. John the Divine, an Anglican religious order, at their convent in the East End in London. The show has extended beyond the memoirs to include new, historically sourced material.
For the most part it depicts the day-to-day lives of the midwives and those in their local neighbourhood of Poplar, with certain historical events of the era having a direct or indirect effect on the characters and storylines.
Canon
Fandom
While very popular at times during its run amongst general viewing audiences, the transformative fandom for Call the Midwife is more moderate in size. On Archive of Our Own there are just over 2,000 works for the fandom while Fanfiction.net has just over 1,200.
Shipping
There aren't many large pairings within fanspaces for the show. The canonical sapphic relationship between Delia Busby/Patsy Mount became popular with the characters' relationship introduced in season four. The canonical duaric pairing of Shelagh Turner/Patrick Turner (also called Turnerdette, with a play on Shelagh's being Sister Bernadette before leaving the church) is also popular in many fandom spaces.
Fanworks
Archives and Resources
- Call the Midwife fanfic on AO3
- Call the Midwife fanfic on Fanfiction.net
- Call the Midwife subreddit
- Call the Midwife tag at Tumblr