I was ten years old when I came across Boadicea, and she became the first woman to make me realize that the designated future of a girl born in 1950 - to be sweet, domesticated, undemanding and super feminine - was not necessarily the case. Boadicea battled the Romans. Nancy Astor fought in Parliament. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for female suffrage. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became a pioneering physician in a man's profession. Mary Quant revolutionized the fashion industry. Britain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It's high...
I was ten years old when I came across Boadicea, and she became the first woman to make me realize that the designated future of a girl born in 1950 -...
The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s.
The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up ...
