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The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club
Julie Welch
Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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- Paperback Nov 15, 2022 | 9781409187837 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 20, 2020 | 9781409187844 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781409187851 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Nov 15, 2022 | 9781409187837 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
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- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781409187851 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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The inspirational story of the trail-blazing female journalists who took on the male-dominated world of Fleet Street in the 1970s and 1980s.
When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it passable. She'd done it. She was the first ever female football reporter.
In The Fleet Street Girls, Julie looks back at the steps that led to that moment, from the National Union of Journalists nearly calling a strike when she dared to write an article as a mere secretary (despite allowing men who weren't journalists to write for the same pages), and many other battles in between.
Julie also shines a light on the other trail-blazing women who were climbing the ladder against all odds, from Lynn Barber (of An Education fame) to Wendy Holden, a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and many more, as well as some of the secretaries whom the men overlooked but who actually knew everything. Pioneers one and all.
The Fleet Street Girls is a fascinating story of the hopes and despairs, triumphs and tribulations of a group of women in the glitzy heyday of journalism, where they could be interviewing Elton John one moment and ducking flying bullets or fighting off the sex pests the next. At a time when Fleet Street was the biggest, cosiest all-male club you can imagine, and the interests of half the human race were consigned to 'The Women's Page' in the paper, we follow Julie and her contemporaries through dramas, excitement and sheer fun in their battle to make sure women's voices were heard.
Praise for The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club
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This book made me almost weep with nostalgia - Lynn Barber
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Eye-opening ... Welch's book is imbued with nostalgia for a time in her life that was, while difficult, also fun. The Fleet Street Girls is as much an obituary for the "glory days of print"as it is a story of pioneering women ... Welch writes with style, and her journey to acceptance in a man's world makes for fascinating reading - THE SUNDAY TIMES
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The Fleet Street Girls is both a witty love letter to a vanished era when typewriters clacked long into the night and the filing of copy was punctuated by reviving trips to El Vino's wine bar, and an honest picture of an era when women writers struggled to be taken seriously - THE OBSERVER
Julie Welch
Julie Welch grew up in Loughton, Essex. In 1973, she became an award-winning sports reporter for the Observer and the first woman in Fleet Street to cover football. Her journalism, on a variety of topics, has featured in many national newspapers and she appears regularly on radio. She has also written plays, books and a film, Those Glory Glory Days, about her childhood passion for Spurs.
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