K.Childs

1920s Women in Law Enforcement- the factual and the fictional The real 1920s were a time of incredible change in the face of women’s rights and empowerment in the UK. Allow me to paint a picture for you. In 1920, the economy is trying to mend from the first world war. You might be on rations for things like meat and sugar and flour. Women have had the vote for a whole 2 years. (1918 was the year the first of the laws allowing ladies to vote was introduced) there was enormous social and political opposition to this. Women in policing, well, that’s a curious story. According to the articles, the first female British police officer was Edith Smith, in 1915. But before that, the force had ‘matrons’- women who helped out with cases surrounding women’s crimes. I imagine, dealing, vastly, with those of violence against women and sexual assault. Image from Wikipedia: Women in Law Enforcement in the UK The first female superintendent wasn’t until 1930, Dorothy Peto, a lady

image from google search I'm low-key obsessed with the golden era of pulp fictions. The dime-store reads and the age in which books were being churned out over the period of three days . I'm too young to have any experience of this golden era... or am I? Wikipedia says : Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". Image from google search The era of pulp fiction was one of huge and rapid development for many genres, niches and some of the most curious writing. It was also rife with copy and paste stories, terrible hashed up prose and plenty of cliche. Amid the muck, long running series emerged, some of which are still going to this day, and plenty of classics were