WOMEN in Bradford who worked in the second half of the 20th century have been urged to share their memories in a new book.

Journalist and author Ysenda Maxtone Graham is compiling stories for her forthcoming book, Jobs for the Girls. She wants women from the district to tell their stories about working between 1945 and 1995, the period the book is set to cover.

She is particularly interested in factory workers who may have left to school and then started their working life.

Anyone born any time between 1930 and 1960 is within the period of the book.

Her previous two books have been about British childhoods; In Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 and In British Summer Time Begins: How we Spent the School Summer Holidays, 1930-1980. The latter book was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller and was Book of the Week on Radio 4.

Ysenda said: “What I’m hoping to capture is the texture of ordinary, daily working life, in all its toughness, but perhaps also (in those days) fun. Office outings? Christmas parties? Lunches? Cameraderie? What were the bosses like – both female and male?

Email ysenda@talk21.com to tell your story and possibly feature in the book.