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Women And The Family

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong women)

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Seasons of My Life

By Hauxwell, Hannah

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany

By Marion A. Kaplan (Professor of History, Queens College, Professor of History, City University of New York)

The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

By Kim Donovan

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

By Sarah Helm

Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)

By Brittain, Vera

Gender: The Key Concepts

By Mary Evans, Carolyn Williams

Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison

By Caitlin Davies

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

By Emma Sky

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford

By Julia Fox

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot

By Fraser, Lady Antonia, Lady Antonia Fraser

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits

By Jennifer Higgie

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By Jennifer Higgie

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' (Sarah Waters)

By June Thomas

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By Claudia Gold, MD

A History of Their Own, Volume 1: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present: v. 1 (Pelican)

By Anderson, Bonnie S., Zinsser, Judith

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (Pluto Classics)

By Rowbotham, Sheila

Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

By Katie Hickman