Paula Bartley is a feminist historian who has written widely on, and promoted, women's history. Her books include Ellen Wilkinson (2014), Queen Victoria (2016) and Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2019). She is a former judge and Chair of the Women's History Network book prize.

1. Introduction: Themes and Debates.

2. A New Age: 1900-1914.

3. The Home Front: 1914-1918.

4. The Not-So-Roaring Twenties: 1918-1929.

5. The Hungry Thirties: 1930-1939.

6. The Second World War: 1939-1945.

7. The Post-War World: 1945-1960.

8. The Less-Than-Swinging Sixties: 1960-1970.

9. The Selfish Seventies?: 1970-1979.

10. Margaret Thatcher's Age and After: 1979-2000.

11. Conclusion: Change and Continuities.