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Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War by Lucy Moore
RRP: £9.99£3.34'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The TimesIn the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but inside the home domestic life continued as it always had done. Lady Ann Fanshawe's 'receipt book' was a treasured and... -
Fashion Sourcebook 1930s by Charlotte Fiell
RRP: £20.00£15.15From the turbulence of the 1930s emerged the Golden Age of Glamour. Framed by two world-changing events - the economic crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War - the 1930s saw new looks emerge and thrive, despite economic and social... -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald 9781783526604
RRP: £20.00£14.26'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel... -
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell 9781604698220
RRP: £18.99£18.26"A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson." -The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen... -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Sarah M. Broom 9781472155597
RRP: £9.99£7.00A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae... -
A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward
RRP: £12.99£8.83During the fifteenth century England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The civil wars consumed the whole nation in a series of battles that eventually saw the Tudor dynasty take power... -
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
RRP: £19.01£14.77In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world-from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... -
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel Sian Evans 9781473699045
RRP: £10.99£7.61HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD THE ICONIC OCEAN LINERS FROM BELOW DECKS TO THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE.'In this riveting slice of social history,... -
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio 9781580056649
RRP: £19.99£12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580056649Author Inga MuscioFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Seal PressPublisher Seal PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 140mm * 25mm -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Sarah M. Broom 9781472155573
RRP: £16.99£11.54A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae... -
Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower by David Baldwin
RRP: £9.99£6.72Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories... -
Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia by Wendy Z. Goldman 9780521785532
RRP: £27.99£23.61In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so... -
Mistress Of Charlecote: Mistress of Charlecote A. Fairfax-Lucy 9780752849300
RRP: £9.99£7.00A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote.Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only twenty when in 1823 she reluctantly married George Lucy and became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in Warwickshire. Sixty... -
Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World: Shetland 1800-2000 by Lynn Abrams 9780719065934
RRP: £19.99£17.61The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here, women were numerically preponderant and economically vital... -
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman
RRP: £17.95£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137704Author Gemma HollmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Women in the Viking Age by Judith Jesch 9780851153605
RRP: £24.99£17.61Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their... -
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman 9781785788093
RRP: £16.99£11.58A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad feminism' Stylist'Canny and informative' - The New YorkerThe untold history of women's exercise culture, from... -
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: £17.99£13.35***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison by Caitlin Davies
RRP: £12.99£8.83LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING'Davies's absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity - along with its serious inquiry' SUNDAY TIMES'[A] revealing account of the jail's 164-year history' DAILY... -
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles 9781473882249
RRP: £12.99£9.34Regency women inhabited a very different world from the one in which we live today. Considered intellectually inferior to men, they received little education and had very few rights. This book tells the inspirational stories of twelve women, from very... -
Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781399019620
RRP: £15.99£11.79Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was... -
Farming, Fighting and Family: A Memoir of the Second World War by Miranda McCormick
RRP: £16.99£13.53Farmer, author and broadcaster Arthur (A.G.) Street was one of the leading voices of British agriculture during the Second World War. His daughter Pamela - herself an aspiring writer - was 18 when war broke out. David, her future husband, served with the... -
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison 9780520304437
RRP: £21.00£16.63A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography... -
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement Andi Zeisler 9781610397735
RRP: £13.99£8.24Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyonce. It drives advertising and... -
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction by June Purvis
RRP: £36.99£32.53Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the... -
Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic by Shatema Threadcraft 9780190251635
RRP: £49.49£40.58In 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie Lee Relf and her fourteen-year-old sister Mary Alice, the daughters of black Alabama farm hands, had been sterilized... -
Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks by Caitlin Davies
RRP: £20.00£15.67'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female... -
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
RRP: £9.99£7.32What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and... -
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of the Awesome Power of History's Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath 9780062796097
RRP: £18.99£13.71The Mother Who Sued to Save Her Children from Slavery-Sojourner Truth The Mother of Rock n' Roll-Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Mother of Holocaust Children-Irena Sendler The Mother of Free Burma-Aung San Suu Kyi ... -
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers by Barbara Jean Harris 9780195151282
RRP: £51.00£35.98Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional... -
A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment Norena Shopland 9781526787675
RRP: £20.00£14.51Traditionally, historic women have been seen as bound by social conventions, unable to travel unless accompanied and limited in their ability to do what they want when they want. But thousands of women broke those rules, put on banned clothing and... -
The Medieval Housewife: & Other Women of the Middle Ages by Toni Mount
RRP: £15.99£11.02Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this... -
Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
RRP: £10.99£7.61An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried... -
Fashion Sourcebook 1940s by Charlotte Fiell
RRP: £20.00£15.15From the ashes of the Second World War came forward-thinking fashions, the likes of which had never been seen before. The early Forties were defined by thriftiness and practicality, a make-do-and-mend attitude in a time of war. However, the latter half... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £16.99£12.47'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends reminders... -
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church by Gregg Olsen 9781250289988
RRP: £19.00£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250289988Author Gregg OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Age Of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri
RRP: £23.00£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172148Author Benedetta CraveriFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon 9781455588749
£33.05A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics,... -
Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves Clenora Hudson (Weems) 9781032533599
RRP: £36.99£32.53The sixth edition of Africana Womanism provides important updates to the classic text in which Clenora Hudson (Weems) sets out a paradigm for women of African descent. Differentiating itself from the problematic theories of Western feminisms, Africana... -
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Clare L. Evans
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329443Author Clare L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc