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The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: £16.99£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750456Author Gayle Tzemach LemmonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second World War by Robyn Walker
RRP: £9.99£6.84Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equal to men in both their bravery and in the sacrifices they made, the female undercover operatives of the... -
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson 9780141029719 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£1.87The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate... -
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson
RRP: £19.99£14.28The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate... -
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain 9780956186959
RRP: £25.00£17.32Originally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique portrait, spanning nearly 100 years, via the previously... -
Lady of the House: 19th Century Women and their Role in the English Country House Charlotte Furness 9781526702746
RRP: £12.99£11.96This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of 'seen and not heard' women, these are incredible women who endured tremendous tragedy and... -
A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: and Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health by Hugh Small
RRP: £10.99£3.05Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed . . . This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very... -
Giffords Circus: The First Ten Years by Nell Gifford 9780752489186 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£8.69Each summer a small and glamorous part of the 1930s comes back to life, recreating magic from an era long past. Evoking a tradition common in the English countryside before the arrival of radio, cinema and television, since 2000 Giffords Circus has... -
Giffords Circus: The First Ten Years by Nell Gifford
RRP: £25.00£19.82Each summer a small and glamorous part of the 1930s comes back to life, recreating magic from an era long past. Evoking a tradition common in the English countryside before the arrival of radio, cinema and television, since 2000 Giffords Circus has... -
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley 9780140175967
RRP: £15.99£11.79In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners... -
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton 9781681778044
RRP: £16.95£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681778044Author Elizabeth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm... -
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces Antony Beevor 9780857051950
RRP: £12.99£8.83Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th... -
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta
RRP: £19.99£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514000748Author Nijay K. GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment Max Adams 9781788543422
RRP: £10.99£7.99Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. History is polyphonic; it must be told by many voices. In Unquiet Women, Max Adams brings to life the voices and experiences of... -
Women of the Anarchy by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781445691718
RRP: £22.99£15.58In 1135, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress... -
Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Annie Whitehead
RRP: £14.99£11.11Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. AEthelred the Unready is one, yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or his mother who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also... -
The Physician's Daughter: An engrossing historical fiction novel about the role of women in society by Martha Conway
RRP: £9.99£7.05The war is over, but in this world made for men can she carve her own path? 'A richly detailed historical drama' USA Today1865. The American Civil War has just ended.When Vita Tenney's father tells her she must abandon her dream of becoming a doctor and... -
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow 9780385548755
RRP: £32.50£19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385548755Author Julie SatowFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635g -
Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
RRP: £14.99£11.11An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court.Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and style, she reigned... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610933
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick 9781915590626
RRP: £25.00£16.59'A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cat's cradle imaginable.' Simon Ings, The Telegraph The true story of a decade-long investigation that opens a new window onto Cold War... -
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line Sarah Percy 9781529344318
RRP: £25.00£16.63'Fascinating' BBC History Magazine'An important contribution to the field of military history' The Times'Brilliant, perspective-shattering' Bookseller'Outstanding . . . hard-hitting and evidence-based' Wavell ReviewsFrom Boudicca to Ukraine,... -
The History of Women's Football by Jean Williams
RRP: £25.00£18.30A complete history of women's football, from its Victorian games beginning in 1881, to the plans for England to host the Euro Finals in England 2022, this book demonstrates how women's football began as a professional sport, and has only recently... -
A Well-Behaved Woman: the New York Times bestselling novel of the Gilded Age Therese Anne Fowler 9781473632493
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the... -
The Women in the Room: Labour's Forgotten History by Nan Sloane
RRP: £40.00£30.61In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set... -
War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry Lindy Woodhead 9781474606493
RRP: £12.99£9.23War Paint is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine vanity and marketing genius. Behind the gloss and glamour lay obsession with business and rivalry with... -
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment by Judith P. Zinsser
RRP: £18.85£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112686Author Judith P. ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books by Marta McDowell 9781604697278
RRP: £20.00£16.48"If you loved Wilder's books, or if you garden with a child who loves her books, you will enjoy the read." -San Francisco Chronicle In this revealing exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the... -
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History Lyn Webster Wilde 9781472136770
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars... -
The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly by Jo Wheeler
RRP: £10.99£7.99Celebrating the lives of the magnificent women, the ATA girls, who courageously flew Spitfires, Tiger Moths, Lancaster Bombers and many other aircraft during World War Two Since the invention of aeroplanes, women have taken to the skies.They have broken... -
Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history by Holly Kyte
RRP: £10.99£6.55'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'. ... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: £12.99£10.34SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating... -
Women of Power: Formidable Females of the Medieval World by Teresa Cole 9781445698748
RRP: £22.99£15.58The stereotypical medieval woman is a pious, helpless creature of little intelligence, and still less drive and ambition. Completely at the mercy of the men in her life, she was married young, had copious offspring and died, often in childbirth, to make... -
Bletchley's Secret Source: The Wrens and the Y-Service in World War II by Peter Hore
RRP: £19.99£14.50The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well-known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from... -
She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women by Dominique Enright 9781782439271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.26She Said is a wonderful celebration of the wit and wisdom of women through the ages.In it you'll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyonce and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things... -
She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women by Dominique Enright
RRP: £9.99£7.05She Said is a wonderful celebration of the wit and wisdom of women through the ages.In it you'll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyonce and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things... -
The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch
RRP: £16.99£12.28Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers. But the women proved to be liabilities as well as assets - Augustus' daughter... -
Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916: A Companion by Joyce Avrech Berkman 9781666912494
RRP: £73.00£64.18Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein's youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate relationship with historical influences of her time and place. Through... -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe 9780393976397
£14.28Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of... -
Sex: Lessons From History Fern Riddell 9781473666252
RRP: £20.00£13.95Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. __________These are the facts: throughout history human beings have had sex. Sexual culture did not begin in the sixties. It has always been celebrated, needed, wanted...