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Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions by Coryne Hall
RRP: £12.99£9.87Queens and princesses have always shown care and compassion, but many went much further. They were not afraid to roll up their sleeves, work in wards or help in field hospitals and operating theatres, despite their sheltered upbringings. Through wars and... -
Forgotten Women of the Wars of the Roses: The Untold History Behind the Battle for the Crown by Jo Romero 9781399066167
RRP: £25.00£16.13The Wars of the Roses were fought in England from the mid-fifteenth century, as the supporters of Lancaster and York wrestled over control of the crown. Books have analyzed the politics, battles and motives of its key characters. However, a discussion of... -
Fruit of Knowledge by Liv Stomquist
RRP: £14.99£10.44'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... -
Air Transport Auxiliary at War: 80th Anniversary of its Formation by Stephen Wynn 9781526726049
RRP: £14.99£11.11This book looks at the invaluable work carried out by members of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the course of the Second World War. Comprised of both men and women, it was a civilian organisation tasked with the collection and delivery of military... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war Evelyn Shillington 9780751567021
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
Women's Writing on the First World War by Agnès Cardinal 9780198122814
£37.74The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very... -
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman 9780063275478
RRP: £22.00£14.58"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."-New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The... -
The Pit Brow Women of Wigan Coalfield by Alan Davies
RRP: £14.99£11.72This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women working in mines grew vastly after the expansion of the coal industry in the mid- to late eighteenth century... -
Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781526745255
RRP: £25.00£18.30Magna 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 in... -
The Gentleman Jack Effect: Lessons in Breaking Rules and Living Out Loud by Janet Lea 9780962183713
RRP: £15.00£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962183713Author Janet LeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Laurel House PressPublisher Laurel House PressWeight(grams) 449g -
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings Linda Rodriguez McRobbie 9781683690252
RRP: £16.99£11.64You think you know her story. You ve read the Brothers Grimm, you ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn t always get happy endings. Sure, plenty were graceful and... -
Wicked Women Of The Raj: European Women Who Broke Society Rules And Married Life by Coralie Younger 9788172234546
RRP: £13.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172234546Author Coralie YoungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England by Michelle Morgan
RRP: £20.00£18.72'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me'MARILYN MONROEIn July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Prince and the... -
Chronos Crime Chronicles - The Death of Amy Robsart: An Elizabethan Mystery Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781789044829
RRP: £6.99£6.44Amy 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... -
Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II by Douglas Boyd 9781526743107
RRP: £25.00£17.90The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and her second husband Henry II. Although academically labelled medieval', their era was the violent... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: £13.99£12.19'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
Women In Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World by Rachel Ignotofsky 9780399580437
RRP: £13.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580437Author Rachel IgnotofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria by Miglena S. Todorova 9781487528416
RRP: £20.99£18.37Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local... -
Women of the Celts by Jean Markale 9780892811502
RRP: £16.99£11.08Historian Markale takes us deep into a mythical world where both man and woman become whole by realizing the feminine principle in its entirety. The author explores the rich heritage of Celtic women in history, myth, and ritual, showing how these... -
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425243077Author Deborah J. SwissFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 373g -
Stories of Independent Women from 17th-20th Century: Genteel Women Who Did Not Marry by Charlotte Furness 9781526704382
RRP: £19.99£14.50As the fight for women's rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: £21.99£18.95In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.84Queen, temptress, martyr, witch: the Essex Girl has left her mark on history. For centuries, society allocated women a role of service and obedience; an invisible woman, circumscribed by home and family, was a righteous woman. The Essex Girl, however,... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf 9780099734314
RRP: £6.99£4.93WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEE This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room... -
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
RRP: £13.99£12.14Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady... -
Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress by Hagith Sivan 9780195379136
RRP: £39.99£27.13The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew,... -
Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780195130676
RRP: £35.49£26.30Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in... -
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie by Will Bashor
RRP: £14.99£11.70This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the... -
Woman: The American History of an Idea Lillian Faderman 9780300271140
RRP: £16.99£14.61A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century"Exhaustively researched and finely written."-Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times"An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience... -
Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028339Author Pamela D. TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Women Of Walt Disney Imagineering: 12 Women Reflect on their Trailblazing Theme Park Careers by Maggie Elliott
RRP: £28.99£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368021951Author Maggie ElliottFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc. -
We Are Feminist: An Infographic History of the Women's Rights Movement by Helen Pankhurst 9781912827107 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912827107Author Helen PankhurstFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern BooksPublisher Modern BooksWeight(grams) 360g -
Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do by Tracy Dawson
RRP: £20.00£13.74In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they... -
Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch: 30 Daring Designs to Celebrate Strong Women by Anna Fleiss
RRP: £13.99£13.03Feminism 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... -
Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult by Lisa Kroeger
RRP: £17.99£13.15From the celebrity spirit mediums of the nineteenth century to the TikTok witches hexing the patriarchy, women have long used magic and mysticism to seize back the power they re so often denied. Organized around different approaches women have taken to... -
The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway by Rosa Matheson 9780752444192
RRP: £14.99£11.72The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering... -
Women in Mayo 1821-1851: A Historical Perspective by Maureen Langan-Egan 9781910388181
£13.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910388181Author Maureen Langan-EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint GalviaPublisher Carrigboy -
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
RRP: £14.99£11.84Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on... -
Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper by Lucy Bland
RRP: £19.99£14.52Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning... -
Boom & Bust: The Resilient Women of Historic Telegraph Cove by Jennifer L Butler
RRP: £19.99£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771512985Author Jennifer L ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood Editions