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Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change. 1913: the last long summer before the war. The... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.81Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind that longform print had once prompted: the capacity to follow a demanding idea from start to finish, to look... -
A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS by Cook, Julie 9781399003414
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.29A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS charts the evolution of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from its early days as a movement started before WW1 right through to the modern day. With real life interviews with Girl... -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald
Booksplease Price: £7.07'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... -
The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope
Booksplease Price: £12.94An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach of rap music, including... -
Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara by Vona Groarke 9781479817511
Booksplease Price: £16.72A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself... -
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman 9780063095687
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063095687Author Eleanor HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254g -
Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives by Jill Liddington 9781844081684 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.45Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old... -
Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives Jill Liddington 9781844081684
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.62Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old... -
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages by Jennifer C. Ward 9780582059658
Booksplease Price: £52.89This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as... -
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery 9780143114277
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114277Author Stacy A. CorderyFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
The Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne by Lyndsy Spence 9780750984249
Booksplease Price: £7.77The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37'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... -
Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945 by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab 9780781813594
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.66Sophie Knab's parents were Polish forced labourers in Germany during World War II. For years her mother was unable to discuss or answer questions about this period of her life. Compelled to learn more about her mothers experience and that of other Polish... -
The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World by Jennifer Potter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History MagazineIn 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in... -
Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.82'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and... -
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory 9780008601713 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.89A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES ... -
Chronos Crime Chronicles - The Death of Amy Robsart: An Elizabethan Mystery Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781789044829
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.47Amy Robsart was the wife of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester. In September 1560, she was found dead, her neck broken, at the bottom of a flight of stairs at Cumnor Place. Amy was twenty-eight when she died and her... -
When My Ship Comes In: An emotional family saga for fans of Call the Midwife Sue Wilsher 9780751564600
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.02The 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... -
Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 by David Clammer
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113900Author David ClammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
Booksplease Price: £7.18As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
Lily's Promise: Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond--A Story for All Generations by Lily Ebert 9780063230293
Booksplease Price: £14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063230293Author Lily EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Hitler's Female Physicians: Women Doctors During the Third Reich and Their Crimes Against Humanity Edzard Ernst 9783031739279
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.37There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the medical profession. In this book, they are the focus of attention. The first section of the book... -
In the Streets of Tehran: Woman. Life. Freedom. by Nila 9781804184523
Booksplease Price: £8.95INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTIONI've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good.Following the death of Mahsa-Jina... -
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie 9781982154288
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.62This extraordinary true story transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daughter of an upstart sheep farmer, becomes one of the most powerful women in the country and establishes a powerful dynasty that endures to this day. Perfect... -
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.18This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today. Female rulers are a rare... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors Anthony Blond 9781845297190
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoe Thomas
Booksplease Price: £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... -
The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing by Mary McAuliffe 9781910820018
Booksplease Price: £36.84The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916–1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... -
Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles by Tim Heath 9781526705327
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.58Hitler's Girls is not just another Hitler Youth history book. Concentrating purely on the role of German girls in Hitler s Third Reich, we learn of their home lives, schooling, exploitation and eventual militarisation from first-hand accounts of women... -
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33What 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... -
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini 9780008586775
Booksplease Price: £11.79SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book'... -
The Female Soldier: Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell by Hannah Snell 9781913724047
Booksplease Price: £6.91Hannah Snell's story begins with tragedy. In 1744 she married James Summs, a Dutch seaman. Soon after their marriage she fell pregnant, and Summs abandoned her and the child, who died just a year later. At this juncture, Snell donned a suit, assumed... -
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History Lyn Webster Wilde 9781472136770
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'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... -
Lonely Planet In Her Footsteps Lonely Planet 9781838690458
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.24Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
Booksplease Price: £11.95In 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... -
The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom 9780062265500
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062265500Author Marilyn YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Queen Victoria: Gender and Empire by Susan Kingsley Kent
Booksplease Price: £13.80Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Queen Victoria. As one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Queen Victoria gave her name to an age filled with enormous possibilities and... -
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity by Róisín Ryan-Flood 9781032499048
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.69Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women's, and non-binary people's experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach,... -
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women' s Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £13.27Listed in the best books of 2023 by The Economist"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." -Publishers WeeklyOne of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023"An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing...