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Giffords Circus: The First Ten Years by Nell Gifford 9780752489186 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£9.30Each 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£19.54Each 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... -
Georgian Recipes and Remedies: A Country Lady's Household Handbook by Michael J Rochford 9781526727299
RRP: £15.99£11.61Discover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they grow' and make Sir Theodore Colladon's Peace Flower Syrup. Feast on Lady St Quintin's Dutch Pudding and Mrs... -
The History of Women's Football by Jean Williams 9781399008624
RRP: £14.99£10.95A 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... -
When My Ship Comes In: A powerful, gripping saga of family, love and hope by Sue Wilsher
RRP: £9.99£6.80The BRAND NEW wartime saga from the much-loved author of THE TILBURY POPPIES. Perfect for fans of Annie Murray and Donna DouglasWill she sacrifice her dreams to care for her family?Essex, 1959.Keep the family together, that's what her old mum always said... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.25In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism by Joanna Scutts 9780715655085
RRP: £12.99£8.63New York City, 1912: in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of women's suffrage, labour... -
Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England: A Sourcebook by Patricia Crawford
RRP: £36.99£32.53Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in... -
The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly by Jo Wheeler
RRP: £10.99£7.77Celebrating 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... -
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoe Thomas
RRP: £19.99£17.82This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved... -
Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history by Holly Kyte
RRP: £10.99£6.35'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'. ... -
Women on Duty: A History of the First Female Police Force by Sophie Jackson 9781781553626
£21.97A monumental event in the history of female emancipation occurred in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 27 November 1914: the first female police officers went on duty. The government's decision to Employ the Women Police Volunteers was an outcome of the wider... -
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner 9780061864513
RRP: £22.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061864513Author Ann KirschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)... -
The Physician's Daughter: An engrossing historical fiction novel about the role of women in society by Martha Conway
RRP: £9.99£6.85The 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... -
Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Annie Whitehead
RRP: £14.99£10.95Many 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... -
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£6.85She 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... -
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles 9781473882249
RRP: £12.99£9.09Regency 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... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse 9781529092202
RRP: £16.99£13.19Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been... -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
RRP: £27.99£24.67The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. Princess, prisoner, African queen - and surviving daughter of Cleopatra VII. In 1895, archaeologists excavating a... -
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... -
Women In England 1500-1760 by Anne Laurence
RRP: £12.99£8.60Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside... -
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: £17.99£12.60***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... -
A Well-Behaved Woman: the New York Times bestselling novel of the Gilded Age by Therese Anne Fowler
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE 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... -
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tullia D'Aragona 9780226136394
RRP: £21.00£20.31First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the... -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION by Sarah M. Broom
RRP: £9.99£6.80A 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... -
Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch: 30 Daring Designs to Celebrate Strong Women by Anna Fleiss
RRP: £13.99£12.74Feminism is back in a big way. From Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Malala Yousafzai to Gloria Steinem and Michelle Obama, powerful, trailblazing women have captured the spotlight and captivated a whole new generation. Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch celebrates these... -
Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison by Caitlin Davies
RRP: £12.99£8.60LONGLISTED 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... -
Female Innovators Who Changed Our World: How Women Shaped STEM by Green, Emma 9781526789693
RRP: £20.00£14.29We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless of women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics... -
Muslim Woman's Participation in Social Life by Abd al-Halim Abu Shuqqah
RRP: £7.99£5.50The emancipation of women cannot be complete unless it is coupled with the emancipation of men. This can only be accomplished by drawing our social values from the Qur'an and the sunnah. In this volume, the author shows that mixed social life was the... -
Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams 9781789147896
RRP: £20.00£14.69During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal... -
Representing Women by Linda Nochlin
RRP: £20.00£13.75Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women,even absent women - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one of its most common subjects. Representing Women brings together Linda Nochlin's most important writings on... -
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
RRP: £9.99£7.11What 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... -
Berlin Diaries: 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchkov 9780394757773
RRP: £23.00£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394757773Author Marie VassiltchikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Fruit of Knowledge by Liv Stomquist
RRP: £14.99£10.23'How I loved reading Fruit of Knowledge ... Clever, angry, funny and righteous, also informative to an eye-popping degree' Rachel Cooke, OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTHFrom Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologised and... -
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
RRP: £25.00£16.38'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,... -
Punk Women by David A. Ensminger
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621065517Author David A. EnsmingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION by 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... -
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman
RRP: £17.95£11.27Apologies 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 *... -
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...