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Article: Make-up, exposed bosoms ... even talk of going to work! How Fifties women put the fear of God into British men; A vanished Britain.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Byline: by David Kynaston
IT WAS a country where doors were left unlocked, children played in the street and crime levels were low and falling -- in fact, a Britain that has long since disappeared. Yesterday, in the second part of our serialisation of a major new book about Fifties Britain, we examined how marriage underpinned that nation of 50 years ago. Today, we explore the growing liberation of women -- and their changing attitudes to fashion, contraception and work.
THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, the youngest of ten and himself the father of six sons, told the Mothers' Union in 1952 that 'a family only truly begins with three children'. He was very ...