As the MP’s wife, my duties included crowning the May Queen in 1975. (Courtesy of the author)
Young women sitting by Trafalgar Square’s fountains, sporting trendy fashion items of those days with their hippie-style ‘flower power’ dresses, 1967. (© Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Feminist Germaine Greer, author of influential The Female Eunuch, gives a talk at Warwick University in March 1971. (© Terrence Spencer/Contributor/Getty Images)
Over 4,000 women partook in the first women’s liberation march in London in 1971. (© shepard sherbell/Contributor/Getty Images)
Women outside the Trico Factory along the Great West Road in London, striking for equal pay and rights on 1st June 1976. (© Angela Deane-Drummond/Stringer/Getty Images)
‘Strikers in saris’: workers holding placards denouncing the inequity of the working conditions of minority ethnic people outside the Grunwick photo-processing laboratory in Willesden, London, 1977. (© Evening Standard/Stringer/Getty Images)
The Divorce Reform Act came into effect in January 1971. By September 1980 George and I were divorced. (© MHJ/Getty Images)
With divorce proceedings in motion, my world turned towards work and journalism. This photograph was taken in 1978 when I was the editor of History Today. (Courtesy of the author)
Margaret Thatcher campaigning during the General Election of 1979, prior to her election as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister of the United Kingdom. (© Graham Wiltshire/Contributor/Getty Images)
Also by Juliet Gardiner
Wartime: Britain 1939–1945
The Thirties: An Intimate History
The Blitz: The British Under Attack
About the Author
JULIET GARDINER is a British historian and commentator on social history from the Victorian times through to the 1960s. She is a former editor of History Today magazine, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, and was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Wartime, The Thirties and The Blitz and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television. She lives in Hackney.
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