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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By Paula Byrne

Brilliant Women: 18th-century Bluestockings

By Elizabeth Eger, Lucy Peltz

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

By Jennifer Higgie

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 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

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

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa

By Cato Pedder

Gi Brides: The War-Time Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love

By Barrett, Duncan

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

By Brian MacArthur

Men and Women in History: Bk. 2: Princes and Rebels

By R.J. Unstead

Wives of Fame: Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx, Emma Darwin

By Edna Healey

Russia * Women * Culture

By Helena Goscilo, Beth Holmgren

Front Line: Women of the New Russia

By William Millinship

Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember

By Anna Horsbrugh-Porter

Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

By Barbara Alpern Engel

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

By JoAnn Levy

Unequal Under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria

By Miglena S. Todorova