In the Ballroom

What happened to young women of the second half of the twentieth century when they were tipped out of the world of school or university, and made their first steps into the world of work? Had their teachers or parents given them any encouragement or ambition?

With her insatiable thirst to find out the truth about British daily life in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, through interviewing people who were there, Ysenda Maxtone Graham took us first into girls’ boarding schools with her book Terms & Conditions, then into the school summer holidays, with British Summer Time Begins. In the third book of her trilogy, Jobs for the Girls, she takes us into the dusty corners of secretarial colleges, cookery courses, nursing training, and the first day in the office in ‘the typewriter age’. Her illustrated talk, full of recollections from people she spoke to, will bring this vividly to life.

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