In this Valentine’s Day special of Travels Through Time we find out how women’s love lives were being transformed in the year 1966. 

Our guest is Professor Carol Dyhouse, a social and cultural historian and emeritus professor at the University of Sussex. Dyhouse takes us on a fascinating, uplifting tour of the sixties that ends with us sniffing fine perfume in a Scottish department store.

Dyhouse is the author of several books about women’s history from education and feminism to glamour and consumerism. Her most recent work Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen is soon to be published by Oxford University Press.

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Show notes

Scene One: A visit to Gretna Green

Scene Two: Sitting in on deliberations of the Latey Committee on Age of Majority

Scene Three: Witnessing the opening of Brook Advisory Centre in Birmingham

Memento: Two bottles of scent from the perfume department at Jenners in Edinburgh. 

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Presenter: Artemis Irvine

Guest: Professor Carol Dyhouse

Production: Maria Nolan

Podcast partner: Colorgraph

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