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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786694874 | ISBN 10: 1786694875
The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.Â
Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780857525871 | ISBN 10: 0857525875
An inspiring and startling centenary history of the first professional women whose determination to have successful careers shaped the personal and working lives of women today.Â
It is a myth that the First World War liberated women.Â
The Sex ... more
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£5.95 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780993224720 | ISBN 10: 0993224725
This book tells the dramatic stories of Manchester women who campaigned for social change and progress in the years between 1914 and 1945. Â It includes women who: campaigned during the First World War for a just and lasting peace that would prevent ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008241711 | ISBN 10: 0008241716
A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t.Â
For hundreds of years we have heard about the great men of history, but what about herstory?Â
In this freewheeling history of modern ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788160612 | ISBN 10: 1788160614
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472938961 | ISBN 10: 1472938968
SHORLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
These days, swimming may seem like an egalitarian pastime, open to anyone with a swimsuit – but this wasn't always the case. In the 19th century, swimming was almost exclusively ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780262535182 | ISBN 10: 0262535181
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857523914 | ISBN 10: 0857523910
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Set against the colourful background of the entire campaign for women to win the vote, Hearts and Minds tells the remarkable and inspiring story of the suffragists' march on London.
1913: th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071583 | ISBN 10: 1786071584
The history of Britain, presented as you've never seen it before, through twenty-one women whose lives enthral and beguile, intrigue and inspire.
They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784785888 | ISBN 10: 1784785881
Sheila Rowbotham's Rebel Crossings tells the transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and William Bailie cross the ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780752488783 | ISBN 10: 0752488783
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their darin ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408837801 | ISBN 10: 1408837803
Throughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Some became travellers and explorers; others business-owner ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783601608 | ISBN 10: 1783601604
Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news.
In this witty and wonderful book ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780752498027 | ISBN 10: 0752498029
Emily Wilding Davison’s image has been frozen in time since 1913. On the 4 June of that year, Emily was struck by the king’s horse, Anmer, during the Epsom Derby. She died four days later.
She, unlike her fellow Militant Suffragettes, did not live ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141037899 | ISBN 10: 014103789x
We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women - in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, m ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844086603 | ISBN 10: 1844086607
Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair.
215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571282173 | ISBN 10: 0571282172
When, in 1935, a young woman wrote this letter to the women's magazine Nursery World women from all over the country wrote back expressing similar frustrations. These women were educated and ambitious but many of their careers had been cut short by ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781426307614 | ISBN 10: 1426307616
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young read ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677030 | ISBN 10: 1844677036
A major new exploration of the women who revolutionized American and British life.
Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums that dominated the period from the 1880s to the onset of the First World War, ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747807520 | ISBN 10: 0747807523
As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers, and over 700,000 became workers in fact ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905192649 | ISBN 10: 1905192649
"For two months in the autumn of 1910 hundreds of women chainmakers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, who were largely illiterate, who worked 54-hour weeks f ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906784102 | ISBN 10: 1906784108
Mornings were used to teach the basic three Rs and to progress us through our Janet and John readers. I only learned much later, in my thirties, how limited Janet's activites had been in comparison to her brother John's and how some scholars linked t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141029719 | ISBN 10: 0141029714
In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. When the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752451169 | ISBN 10: 0752451162
This book brings together a wealth of black and white pictures which together record not only the operations of the WLA but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. Drawn from the worldwide albums of many ex-land girls at a time wh ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141020624 | ISBN 10: 0141020628
Before the First World War a single woman had one aim in life: to get married. But three-quarters of a million British soldiers were killed in that war, leaving not enough men to go around and a generation of so-called 'Surplus Women'. What became of ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753823835 | ISBN 10: 0753823837
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781862079922 | ISBN 10: 1862079927
In 1907 Princess Sophy ('Sofka') Dolgorouky was born in St Petersburg. Members of the Imperial family had attended her parents' wedding earlier that same year, and the child was born into a privileged world of nurses, private tutors and elegant tea p ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389201 | ISBN 10: 193438920x
There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she's already been there. Her presence is everywhere. Black Women for Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from an ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844083022 | ISBN 10: 1844083020
Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own time. She vividly recalls her Edwardian childhood and her life as a young munitions worker during the war, marriage and life below the poverty line in th ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844081684 | ISBN 10: 1844081680
When she was arrested, sixteen-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis was catapulted onto the tabloid front pages as 'Baby Suffragette'. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday - then determined to burn two buildings a week unti ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780470851418 | ISBN 10: 0470851414
Cowboy journalist Will Rogers called it the "Powder Puff Derby" - after all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes? Worse, dames racing planes 2,700 miles from California to Cleveland. One reporter reckoned that far from f ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780006386940 | ISBN 10: 0006386946
"Four extraordinary women whose personal histories should dispel any illusions that the Spanish Civil War was an all male war .. The book is full of wonderful stories and acute observations. But above all these are compelling human dramas in which m ... more
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£11.00 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781902593036 | ISBN 10: 1902593030
The frank uncensored story of a wandering woman of the underworld. Intimate facts of a woman hobo's methods and habits: a life story that has no parallel. Swapping tales around the campfire in hobo jungles, hanging out on free love commune farm ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780708315910 | ISBN 10: 0708315917
Out Of The Shadows reveals the fascinating story of women's lives in Wales during the twentieth century. In this major contribution to the gendered history of Wales, Deirdre Beddoe draws on wide-ranging historical sources, including extensive archiva ... more
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£17.99 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780253207050 | ISBN 10: 0253207053
"“[Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women’s studies and (p ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1933) - ISBN 13: 9780141185361 | ISBN 10: 0141185368
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue do Fleurus and the Saturday evenings, and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying spanish giggle', as were Ceza ... more
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