A Woman's World 1850-1960

The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series.A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colourized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the science lab or protesting on the streets, performing on stage or fighting in the trenches, running for election or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and full colour the female experience in a century of extraordinary change.Photographs include: Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Eva Peron, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Rosa Parks, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas in Japan, protestors on the Salt March, teachers and pilots, nurses and soldiers.

About the author

Dan Jones is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of many non-fiction books, including The Plantagenets, The Templars and Powers and Thrones. He is a renowned writer, broadcaster and journalist. He has presented dozens of TV shows, including the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles, and writes and hosts the podcast This is History. His debut novel, Essex Dogs, is the first in a series following the fortunes of ordinary soldiers in the early years of the Hundred Years' War. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Amaral, Dan Jones, Dan Amaral Jones
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781800240247
• ISBN: 978-1-80024-024-7
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 199 mm x 255 mm x 39 mm
• Series: Apollo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Photographs: collections, Social and cultural history, Non Fiction