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Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

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

By Betsy Israel

Women of the 1960s

By Sheila Hardy

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

By Becca Anderson

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

By Lauren Elkin

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By Stella Dadzie

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

By Avi Raa

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

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

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

By John Guy, Julia Fox

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

By Caroline Moorehead

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

By Hadley Freeman

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

By Tomalin, Claire

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

By Roxana Robinson

Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929-70

By Rochelle Rowe

Perfection Salad

By Laura Shapiro, Narcisse Chamberlain

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

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

By Kim Donovan

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)

Seasons of My Life

By Hauxwell, Hannah

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

By Lucette Lagnado

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

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

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

By Kate Summerscale

Women And The Family

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Greta

By Yvette Cooper

A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

By Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley

Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45

By Raynes Minns

Women Heroes of World War II-the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

By Kathryn J. Atwood

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs