👩👧 GIRLS now start getting involved in rough and tumble games 🐶🤸🦴 in 1970s Ladybird books, they were becoming more proactive, as oppose to simply following the boys 👧📖
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
#LadybirdBooks #ChildrensLiterature #GenderRoles
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👩👧 GIRLS start eating healthier foods 🍎 in 1970s Ladybird books, they were becoming more proactive, pointing to where they wanted to go as oppose to simply following the boys 👧📖
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https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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📚 1970s: Girls Now Get Wet!
What can old Ladybird books tell us about changing gender roles? From 1960s girls sitting safely on the side lines to 1970s girls joining in the action 👇
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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📚 1970s: Girls Now Get Wet!
What can old Ladybird books tell us about changing gender roles? From 1960s girls sitting safely on the side lines to 1970s girls joining in the action — even getting soaked in the swimming pool!
I take a look at how children’s books reflected changing attitudes towards girls, boys, race, clothing and childhood. 👧📖
Read the article 👇
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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👩👧 GIRLS STILL PICK FLOWERS in 1970s childrens books, but they were more pro-active, sort adventure and wore more practical clothing 👧📖
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https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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🕺The 1970s saw more diversity in childrens books 👧📖
I take a look at how children’s books have reflected changing attitudes towards girls, boys, race, clothing and childhood itself.
Read the article 👇
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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📚 1970s: Girls Now Get Wet!
What can old Ladybird books tell us about changing gender roles? From 1960s girls sitting safely on the side lines to 1970s girls joining in the action 👧📖
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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Today’s children’s books show girls being adventurous—but that wasn’t always the case. 👧📖
I take a look at how children’s books have reflected changing attitudes towards. . . 👇
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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Sydney Sweeney posed as an athlete. Keeley Hodgkins is an actual athlete—dressed as Batwoman. 🦇🏅
From girls in the 1960s to the 1970s and beyond, this article asks how much progress we've really made 👇
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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📚 1970s: Girls Now Get Wet!
What can old Ladybird books tell us about changing gender roles? From 1960s girls sitting safely on the side lines to 1970s girls joining in the action. . .
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https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
#LadybirdBooks #ChildrensLiterature #GenderRoles -
📚 1970s: Girls Now Get Wet!
What can old Ladybird books tell us about changing gender roles? From 1960s girls sitting safely on the side lines to 1970s girls joining in the action — even getting soaked in the swimming pool!
I take a look at how children’s books reflected changing attitudes towards girls, boys, race, clothing and childhood. 👧📖
Read the article 👇
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
#LadybirdBooks #ChildrensLiterature #GenderRoles -
🔥 Have we gone backwards?
A controversial Novig advertising campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney nude or nearly nude has sparked backlash from female athletes.
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/09/15/1970s-girls-now-get-wet/
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I would really love to go to this exhibition, but it would take over 3h to get there by train, and cost us over £35 each (and that’s WITH a railcard), There is a bus but it only operates at midnight 🙃
1hr by car though.
Public transport travellers really are excluded from a lot of cultural experiences.
https://ladybirdflyawayhome.com/the-ladybird-artists-exhibition/
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Garden Flowers, 1960
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton #bloomscrolling #ladybirdbooks #ladybird thank you to Helen Day -
I seem to have conflated 2 or 3 illustrations in my mind. This is one (which is separate indelible memory).
For a beautiful story of this kind I recommend a recent essay from @davidallengreen about a search for a cherished childhood book (https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story-of-a-forty-year-book-quest-and-of-its-remarkable-ending/).
I'm indebted to @Grindrod for his account of modernism in #LadybirdBooks
http://dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ladybird-book-of-postwar-rebuilding.html?m=1. The comments show I'm not alone in being heavily influenced by them. -
Balloons Over Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1990 - PH Topics Postcard
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Vast collection of Ladybird classics 'coming home'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5ng290r87o
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New on the website today I have the complete illustrations by renowned Ladybird Book artist Roger Hall for the 1982 book The Loaves and Fishes (link below) where you can see more pictures.
#ladybirdbooks #vintageladybirdbooks
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Today's front cover, via the excellent @[email protected] .... #LadybirdBooks
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I've written a guest post on the world famous Ladybird Books on 'Lynne about Loughborough', the wonderful blog curated by local historian Lynne Dyer. The post tells the unusual history of how a local jobbing printer in an Eastmidlands market town became a global publisher.
https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2023/12/ladybird-books-from-jobbing-printers-to.html
#loughborough #loughboroughheritage #ladybirdbooks #publishinghistory #businesshistory #bookstodon
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We found some #welshlanguage #ladybirdbooks the other day in a #secondhand bookshop.
I never knew that these even existed and glad to have got some.
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@lbflyawayhome It was always a perfect world. 😂
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My new podcast #FolkLands with #JustinChubb begins tomorrow! A dark plunge beneath the surface of forgotten British folklore and myth, mixed with 70s kids tv, magick, witches, curses and ancient river demons. Don’t say I never treat you! Available wherever you pod. Please follow us & share!
#magick #britishfolklore #lore #folklore #ghosts #boggart #ladybirdbooks #vampyr
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Interesting tale of the Ladybird "How it works: The Computer" special edition which may, or may not, have been produced in the 1970s for MOD staff
https://ladybirdflyawayhome.com/ladybird-and-the-m-o-d-the-plot-thickens/?s=09
#ladybird #ladybirdBooks #howItWorks #computer #computing #computerEducation #MOD
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Day 8 #AdventCalendar is an orange #LadybirdBooks
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These 1960s #ladybirdbooks on The Public Services are real heartbreakers
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A series of reviews of the Ladybird Expert series by various reviewers. Some are good, some not so good.
