Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention. Cathy Newman

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       Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018

      Copyright © Cathy Newman 2018

      Cover design by Anna Morrison

      Cathy Newman asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008241711

      Ebook Edition © October 2018 ISBN: 9780008241698

      Version: 2018-11-21

       Dedication

      To John and our two bloody brilliant little women

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       1 Introduction: Education, Education, Education

       2 Old Battles, New Women: 1880–1914

       4 Between the Wars: 1918–39

       5 Daughters of Britain: 1939–45

       6 Remake, Remodel: 1945–61

       7 It’s a Man’s World: 1961–81

       8 What You Really, Really Want: 1981–2017

       Acknowledgements

       Selected Bibliography

       Notes

       Picture Section

       Index

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

      1

       Introduction

      Education, Education, Education

      This is definitely one to file under You Wouldn’t Get Away with It Nowadays, but when I was at school studying for my History A Level, our teacher used to take select groups of pupils to visit the bomb shelter from the Second World War at the bottom of his garden. I think he’d just watched Dead Poets Society, which had recently come out, and decided to portray himself as an inspirational eccentric.

      I was never invited; but I like to imagine the group sitting on the damp earth beneath the corrugated tin roof as Mr Dead Poet read to them in faltering torchlight, breaking off every so often to quote Churchill. Perhaps even my favourite Churchillism: ‘My education was interrupted only by my schooling.’

      That’s how I feel about school too. The vagaries of the curriculum in the late 1980s meant I studied the Anglo-Saxons about three times. For years I knew all about the Venerable Bede but almost nothing about anything that happened after 1066.

      To this day, I remain embarrassed by the holes in my knowledge. Throughout my adult life I’ve bought – though admittedly not read – every history book I can lay my hands on. ‘History of Britain’-type books promising a broad overview are my particular pleasure.

      Perhaps I’m being unfair. A book like the one I was reading, whose opening chapters dealt with war and its management by male politicians, was always going to be light on women. Still, many accounts of modern British history

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