About the Author

Deirdre Beddoe is Emeritus Professor of Women's History at the University of Glamorgan. She is also a broadcaster and the author of several books on women's history, including Welsh Convict Women, Discovering Women's History: A Practical Manual and Back to Home and Duty: Women in Britain Between the Wars.

Reviews

'an eminently readable book, with the added bonus of striking photographs.' Times Literary Supplement '...history at its best...' Western Mail