Pre-order now: NEW BOOK COMING OUT IN AUGUST!

And a chance to win a colorization of a personal photograph

The third volume in the bestselling The Colour of Time series.

A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colourized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the science lab or protesting on the streets, performing on stage or fighting in the trenches, running for election or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and full colour the female experience in a century of extraordinary change.

Each chapter will be introduced by a woman who works in that field today.

Photographs include: Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Eva Peron, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Simone de Beauvoir, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Emmeline Pankhurst, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas in Japan, protestors on the Salt March, teachers and pilots, nurses and soldiers.

A chance to win a family photo colorized by me

If you PRE-ORDER the book until March 25, next Friday - when the first winner will be announced, you’ll have a chance to win a family photo colorized by me.

All you have to do is pre-order A WOMAN’S WORLD via Waterstones (link below) and send a screenshot to marinacontest@gmail.com

Then, attached to the same email, send me a digital scan of a photograph that means something to you (it needs to be a simple portrait, with 2 people max.) and you’re done!

I couldn’t be more excited to share this with you! In the time-consuming process of researching names for this book, I came across SO MANY fantastic stories - most of them could not be included due to the fact that you wouldn’t want to carry a 9,000-page book around. But I’ll be sharing some of these with you here in the newsletter over the next few weeks.

This book means a lot to me, and the opportunity to give voice to the 200 fantastic women that are mentioned there, some of them basically unknown, feels incredible.

Dan and I hope you enjoy this one as much as we do!

Thank you for your support,

Marina x