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Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500 by Teresa Phipps 9781526171795
RRP: £25.00£22.03This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns - Nottingham, Chester and Winchester - and... -
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward Behr
RRP: £11.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450095Author Edward BehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war by Evelyn Shillington
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE 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... -
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan 9781324092377
RRP: £14.99£11.68Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,... -
Country Schoolwomen: Teaching in Rural California, 1850-1950 by Kathleen Weiler
RRP: £62.00£53.96Focusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how... -
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens 9780820354750
£26.40The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies,... -
Reformation Women by Rebecca Vandoodewaard 9781601785329
RRP: £12.25£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601785329Author Rebecca VandoodewaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Reformation Heritage BooksPublisher Reformation Heritage Books -
Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies 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 -
Unknown Warriors: The Letters of Kate Luard RRC and Bar, Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918 by John Stevens
RRP: £14.99£11.55The words of Unknown Warriors resonate as powerfully today as when first written. The book offers a very personal glimpse into the hidden world of the military field hospital where patients struggled with pain and trauma, and nurses fought to save lives... -
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
RRP: £16.99£11.54You 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... -
The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America by Jean Fagan Yellin
RRP: £28.99£25.36A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the "antislavery females" included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing... -
Women of Moray by Susan Bennet
RRP: £16.99£12.87Women have been sidelined throughout history in the rush to tell the stories of great wars, great battles and the achievements of great men. But in Moray - a part of Scotland encompassing both Highland and Lowland areas btween Inverness and Aberdeen - a... -
Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781526745255
RRP: £25.00£18.02Magna 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... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £25.00£17.15"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among history's most admired and tireless public servants-a revealing, funny, and... -
The Real Coco Chanel by Rose Sgueglia 9781526761019
RRP: £19.99£14.28Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine. Fuelled by 19th century literature, she built a life which was partly myth and, partly, factual. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortune was impossible to... -
Sisters in Arms by Julie Wheelwright
RRP: £18.99£13.61Shortlisted for the British Army Book of the Year 2021. 'A long overdue assertion on the role of women on the battlefield. This book is going straight on my daughter's bookshelf.' Dan Snow, historian, TV presenter and broadcaster 'Sisters in Arms... -
Katharine Hepburn: A Remarkable Woman by Anne Edwards 9781493039197
RRP: £14.99£14.74Katharine Hepburn: grande dame of American actresses, fierce individualist, and living legend. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winner of four, Hepburn achieved stardom against formidable odds. The woman behind the legend emerges in this sympathetic... -
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War by Tammy M. Proctor
RRP: £23.99£20.84When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert's home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital, and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich, she was approached by a neighbor... -
Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions by Coryne Hall
RRP: £12.99£9.62Queens 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... -
Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941 by Patricia O'Sullivan
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963981Author Patricia O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 416g -
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore by Kiki Smith 9780847873135
RRP: £47.50£36.83An unprecedented look at women s everyday clothes from Sylvia Plath s Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, business suits, and fast-food workers uniforms this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked,... -
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England by Michelle Morgan 9781472145956
RRP: £10.99£7.78'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... -
Women In Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World by Rachel Ignotofsky 9780399580437
RRP: £13.99£9.60Apologies 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 -
Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings by Marlene Wagman-Geller 9781633536951
RRP: £12.99£11.23Empowering Stories of Strong Women"These soaring stories will inspire you to live your dreams!" -Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome WomenFinalist Pacific Book Awards 2018Dorothy Parker observed, "It's a man's world;" the lady entrepreneurs and... -
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England by Michelle Morgan
RRP: £20.00£18.47'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... -
1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress by Empress Farah Pahlavi
£31.26This memoir by empress Farah Pahlavi looks back on her reign over an Iran so modern it is unrecognizable today-written just a few years before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. "Beautifully written, intelligent and insightful, the memoirs of Farah Diba... -
Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern
RRP: £14.99£13.64History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of ancient Asia Minor, myths of fierce, autonomous women of martial excellence abound. And yet, the only... -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald
RRP: £9.99£6.85'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... -
Women of the Third Reich: From Camp Guards to Combatants by Tim Heath 9781526739452
RRP: £25.00£18.02The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who... -
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... -
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe 9781641602228
RRP: £16.95£11.67In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside-and sometimes in command of-their male counterparts. These women came from all walks... -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade 9781842126189 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King... -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade
RRP: £12.99£8.60Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King... -
Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980 by Margaret Ward 9781851322565
RRP: £29.95£26.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851322565Author Margaret WardFormat PaperbackImprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen House -
The Clintons' War on Women by Robert Morrow 9781510713925
RRP: £12.99£8.18"This book on Hillary - really tough." - President Donald TrumpHillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls," but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up until now. This stunning... -
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)... -
The Match Girl and the Heiress by Seth Koven 9780691158501
RRP: £30.00£23.69Nellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these... -
Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 by David Clammer
RRP: £25.00£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 -
The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause by Susan Mattern
RRP: £25.00£19.99The first comprehensive look at menopause from prehistory to todayAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong we have been. Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay... -
Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II by Douglas Boyd 9781526743107
RRP: £25.00£17.62The 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...