History A-Level
Post-war role of women
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A shift in which women were pushed from wartime industrial roles but new opportunities emerged in clerical work.
Topics that use Post-war role of women
- 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 – The search for stability, 1922–1929 (AQA A-Level)
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