Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Cathy Hunt, author and historian tells the story of the history of women's lives in Coventry in one extraordinary century of change from 1850-1950 when women gained greater political, economic and social freedoms that had ever been possible for their mother's and grandmother's. Coventry story allows us to examine women's lives close-up and personal, growing-up, getting jobs, marrying and having babies - the very 'stuff of life'.
Cathy Hunt, author and historian tells the story of the history of women's lives in Coventry in one extraordinary century of change from 1850-1950 when women gained greater political, economic and social freedoms that had ever been possible for their mother's and grandmother's. Coventry story allows us to examine women's lives close-up and personal, growing-up, getting jobs, marrying and having babies - the very 'stuff of life'.
