TY - JOUR
AU1 - Andrews, Maggie
AB - REVIEWS 403 As well as being an excellent history of SCF, this book provides a new perspec- tive on Britain’s declining role on the international stage as well as demonstrating how SCF actively supported British colonialism and hegemony, even into the period of decolonization. This work will be of interest to a wide audience includ- ing historians of children and childhood, historians of the Empire, and British his- torians more generally. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK HAYLEY BROWN https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwad008 hayley.brown@lshtm.ac.uk Advance Access publication 3 February 2023 Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley. Palgrave Macmillan (imprint Springer Nature), Switzerland AG, 2022. xii þ 286 pp. ISBN 978 03-030- 92720-2, £24.99. Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain introduces a wonderfully diverse range of campaigns, protests, and political engagement women undertook as they sought to bring about change at a local, national, and international level during the twentieth century. Activism occurred through formal and informal organiza- tions or even individually, like Mrs Roberts, a mother of two who in the 1960s chained herself to a noticeboard at the council offices because she needed a coun- cil house. The many areas discussed in 
TI - Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley
JF - Twentieth Century British History
DO - 10.1093/tcbh/hwad009
DA - 2023-02-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/women-s-activism-in-twentieth-century-britain-making-difference-across-b5STLrlHGl
SP - 403
EP - 405
VL - 34
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -