Rebel women between the wars garment and textile industries

Rebel women between the wars garment and textile industriesAn original history of 13 women from the interwar years, who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations from mountaineering, to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free from domesticity and into the active, public world.

loss of public faith

It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents

and reappraises the value of simplicity in TV

purity in amateur rowing

A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemies together – and the media played a significant role in persuading the public to accept this startling change

It explores the system’s shortcomings and the ongoing debates around its modernization

and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them

architecture and decoration of their homes

Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy’s long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture

which would restore control of the surplus to those who produce it

The first anthology of its kind

A Divided World examines some of the important programs of the New Deal and the subsequent response of the film community – especially in relation to social welfare