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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy by Daryl Leeworthy
    Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy - by Daryl Leeworthy

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786838544 | ISBN 10: 1786838540

    This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women’s movement in modern Wales.  Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of democracy and the right to vote, and in oppositi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feisty and Fiery and Fierce: Badass Celtic Women to Live Your Life by from Scotland, Ireland & Wales by Mairi Kidd
    Feisty and Fiery and Fierce: Badass Celtic Women to Live Your Life by from Scotland, Ireland & Wales - by Mairi Kidd

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785303081 | ISBN 10: 1785303082

    Celtic women, both 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' have often been overlooked in recorded history, while their male counterparts hogged the limelight. Too often written by the victors, and written by men, for men, the incredible stories of Scottish, I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Votes for Women: The North Wales Suffragists
    Votes for Women: The North Wales Suffragists' Campaign: 1907-1914 - by Barbara Lawson-Reay

    £8.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845275501 | ISBN 10: 1845275500

    A volume tracing the contribution of the North Wales Suffragists to the campaign for votes for women during the period 1907-14.   The campaign to secure votes for women spread rapidly across North Wales in the years before the First World War. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots by Rhian E. Jones
    Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots - by Rhian E. Jones

    £19.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783167883 | ISBN 10: 1783167882

    The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as ‘Rebeccaism’ or ‘the Rebecca riots’, stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat.   The story is remembered in vivid and compelling ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias by Jasmine Donahaye
    The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias - by Jasmine Donahaye

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909983236 | ISBN 10: 1909983233

    he first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century.   Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Father
    My Father's Places - by Aeronwy Thomas

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849013642 | ISBN 10: 1849013640

    The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet D ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology by Edited by Jane Macnamee
    In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology - by Edited by Jane Macnamee

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781870206969 | ISBN 10: 1870206967

    Mountaineers, amblers, star-gazers, river-watchers, cavers, climbers, farmers, artists, sailors and ecologists - all these writers explore the elemental forces of the Welsh landscapes which have shaped their lives.  They all share a deep, personal ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women
    The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage - by Edited by Jane Aaron and Ursula Masson

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781870206907 | ISBN 10: 1870206908

    This innovative and ground-breaking anthology covers a century of Welsh women's political writings, from the 1830s to the 1930s; its diverse contributors include female Chartists, patriotic defenders of Wales and its language, feminists working for w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams
    Sugar and Slate - by Charlotte Williams

    £6.95   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780954088101 | ISBN 10: 0954088107

    A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, grows up in a small town on the coast of North Wales. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales.   Sugar & Sl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out Of The Shadows: A History Of Women In Twentieth-Century Wales by Deirdre Beddoe
    Out Of The Shadows: A History Of Women In Twentieth-Century Wales - by Deirdre Beddoe

    £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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