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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

By Roxana Robinson

Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King

By Tomalin, Claire

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Hadley Freeman

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

The Greatest Love Story Never Told: Liberating Jesus and Mary from Christianity

By Avi Raa

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By Stella Dadzie

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson

Women of the 1960s

By Sheila Hardy

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the 20th Century

By Betsy Israel

Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers

By Mike Walker

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-1999

By Martin Pugh

Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750-1900

By Sue Morgan

Women in Twentieth-Century Europe

By Ann Allen

Pacifists, Patriots and the Vote: The Erosion of Democratic Suffragism in Britain During the First World War

By J. Vellacott

The Politics of Domestic Consumption: Critical Readings

By Stevi Jackson, Shaun Moores

Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis

By Dr Stephen P. Kershaw

1920s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook

By Charlotte Fiell, Emmanuelle Dirix

Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

By Karen Petersen, J. J. Wilson

Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

By Valerie J. Korinek

Women's Work: A Story of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition

By Kate Fearon

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Anne Glenconner

The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

By Gwen Strauss

Fire Road

By Kim Phuc Phan Thi

Sexed: A History of British Feminism

By Susanna Rustin

In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris

By Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz