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"The story of the University of Westminster is the fifth volume in a series of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 by following this link: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks.
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price."

"The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 following this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price."

"The Royal Polytechnic Institution's story is the first episode in the long, diverse history of the University of Westminster. Drawing on an extensive range of primary and secondary sources this book explores the Institution's reputation for visual spectacle and the popularisation of science. It is lavishly illustrated with contemporary images.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 following this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price."

"The story of the Polytechnic and of the legacy of Quintin Hogg is the third publication exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. A fitting tribute to the life and legacy of Hogg, his holistic approach to education and the institute he created. This book is richly illustrated with images from the University's Archive.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £25 following this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price."

"The story of the (now restored) Regent Street Cinema is the fourth volume exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. This multi-authored volume tells its history from architectural, educational, legal and cinematic perspectives and is richly illustrated throughout with images from the University of Westminster archive.
A print paperback can be purchased direct from the University of Westminster for £20 following this link: www.westminster.ac.uk/historybooks
Staff, students and alumni can claim a 20% discount on this price."

Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain's postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed. Labour MP Rachel Reeves here tells Alice Bacon's story, narrating one woman's extraordinary progression from the coalfields to the Commons

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Epigraph -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of notable political 'firsts' for women in the House of Commons -- Prologue to the Paperback Edition -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Seats For Women: 1919-31 -- A one woman show: Nancy Astor -- Warming pans and male equivalence -- Labour women -- 1924: 'The orphans of the storm' -- The Lady Members' Room -- From words to deeds: legislating for reform -- The end of an era -- Women in government -- 2 Women at War: 1931-45 -- Ellen Wilkinson and the Jarrow Crusade -- Eleanor Rathbone and family allowances -- The prophetesses and the gathering storm -- Woman power -- Into a brave new world -- 3 Let Us Face the Future: 1945-59 -- Parliamentary culture, chocolates and cancans -- 'From the cradle to the grave' -- 'Jam tomorrow'? The housewives' revolt -- Defending the vulnerable: the beginnings of social reform -- 4 Stilettos and Springboards: 1959-70 -- Building Barbara's Castle -- A tiger in my tank -- Not another Maggie Bondfield! -- 'Minister of the future': Jennie Lee, the Arts and the Open University -- Equal pay: Made in Dagenham -- Castle's many lives -- 5 Leaders and Losses: 1970-79 -- Becoming the Iron Lady -- Conservative women and feminism -- More women on the benches -- Making a difference -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- 6 Paths to Power: 1979-97 -- Settling into Number Ten -- A woman's cabinet -- Mothers in the House -- Leading ladies -- Visible women -- All-women shortlists -- A fashion House -- Intersections and minority caucus -- Women in the spotlight -- 7 New Labour, More Women: 1997-2010 -- A party for and of women? -- Policies in practice -- Courage and controversy -- Critical moments -- 8 More in Common: 2010-19 -- From 'Blair's Babes' to 'Cameron's Cuties'.