As literary editor of the Sunday Times in the early 1980s, when the rest of the editorial staff routinely papered their offices with mildly erotic female images, Claire Tomalin stuck up pictures of sexy men: ‘Some found it hard to believe I could do anything so shocking.’
Double standards, casual sexism and blanket prejudice were normal at the time, even on a relatively civilised national paper.
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