{"id":3350,"date":"2024-12-11T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T09:47:44","slug":"lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"New Jennie Lee book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her book, &#8216;Bloody Brilliant Women: the Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention&#8217;, Cathy Newman records of Jennie Lee that she was \u201cSo much loved by the public that when she attended a play, the audience would applaud as she took her seat,\u201d Jennie Lee, she adds, \u201cbeefed up the Arts Council and saved the National Youth Orchestra\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher claims: Bloody Brilliant Women uses the stories of some extraordinary lives to tell the tale of 20th and 21st century Britain. It is a history for women and men. A history for our times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1537301426i\/39294666.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nReview<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/oct\/22\/bloody-brilliant-women-cathy-newman-review<\/p>\n<p>Further Guardian comment:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/nov\/25\/britain-culture-minister-arts-jeremy-wright<\/p>\n<p>Letters:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/nov\/26\/in-praise-of-jennie-lees-arts-legacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her book, &#8216;Bloody Brilliant Women: the Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention&#8217;, Cathy Newman records of Jennie Lee that she was \u201cSo much loved by the public that when she attended a play, the audience would applaud as she took her seat,\u201d Jennie Lee, she adds, \u201cbeefed up the Arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}