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Prostitution, Mayfair & Ruth Ellis Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson Virginia Nicholson explains that prostitution wasn’t as big as it was during the war years when randy soldiers roamed the streets but it was conducted in much the same way: it was open and had strict rules along class lines. But woe…

  The Story of Women of  1950s – Careers, Class & Beauty Pageants  While women were educated and working in the 1950’s, one was expected – and in some cases, forced – to stop working after marriage to busy oneself with the home and children, a hot meal and slippers for the husband, etc. Meanwhile, much…

Butlins Holiday Camp & Teddy Girls – Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson Length 12.37 Tenerife was not yet on the horizon and Butlin’s offered something for everyone in the family and a true holiday from the drudgery of the possibly still bombed out home. Meanwhile, the first teenagers were born and not…

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson, The Coronation & Becoming Housewives Again A SERIES PART 1 Length 11:50 In her latest exposé of women in the 20th Century, author Virginia Nicholson lifts the veneer of respectable perfection of the 1950’s. We start with the queen: pretty wife and mother who ascends to the…