Helen McCarthy publishes new book, “Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood”

Helen McCarthy has published her new book, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood (Bloomsbury, 2020)! Helen’s book offers an important new social and cultural history of the transformation of women’s lives with the advent of ‘working motherhood’ in modern Britain, tracing the lives of mothers who worked for pay from the late nineteenth century to the present day. For full details, please see Helen’s Twitter thread on the book’s significance. Helen also made an appearance on Dan Snow’s podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit – be sure to listen!. Double Lives can be purchased here. Many congratulations, Helen!