A woman packing Dairy Box chocolates at the Rowntree’s factory, York, in 1948
Dr Emma Robertson is a social and cultural historian of labour and gender in the context of modern Britain and the British Empire. She is a lecturer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and has published numerous works, including Chocolate, Women And Empire: A Social And Cultural History.
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