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The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

By Helen Morales

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 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

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

By John Eidinow

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

By Rachel Vorona Cote

Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

By Louise K Stewart, Eve Lloyd Knight

Feminine power: the divine to the demonic

By Belinda Crerar, Mary Beard

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

By Rowbotham, Sheila

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

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

By John Eidinow

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

By Anderson, Bonnie S., Zinsser, Judith

Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

By Katie Hickman

Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution, 1640-60

By Stevie Davies

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

By Emma Sky

Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison

By Caitlin Davies

Gender: The Key Concepts

By Mary Evans, Carolyn Williams

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

By Brittain, Vera

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

By Sarah Helm

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

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

By John Guy, Julia Fox

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

By Hadley Freeman