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In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties
Author: Jane Robinson
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 10h 50m
Unmarried mothers, absent fathers, orphaned children - Jane Robinson's In the Family Way is a truly gripping book about long-buried secrets, family bonds and unlikely heroes. Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. Unmarried mothers were considered immoral, single fath...
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 8h 30m
Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. About 215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their membership crosses class and has recently begun to recruit huge numbers of young women. It was foun...
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 6h 57m
Robinson presents the inspiring story of the first young women who overcame all the odds to get their education and attend university. Using the words of the women themselves, this book charts the fight for and expansion of higher education for women.
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