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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

By Catherine Hanley

Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870

By Midgley, Clare

Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Won the War

By Lynn, Dame Vera, etc., Cross, Robin, de Gex, Jenny

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

By Strauss, Gwen

Women's Life in Greece and Rome

By Lefkowitz, Mary R., Fant, Maureen B.

Goddesses, Whores, Wives And Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

By Pomeroy, Sarah B

Tales of Tudor Women

By Sandeford, Marie

Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres and Real Life

By Dixon, Suzanne D.

The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (Religion and Gender)

By Raphael, Melissa

Jambusters: The Remarkable Story Which Has Inspired the ITV Drama Home Fires

By Julie Summers

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

By Wendy Holden

More than a Muse: Creative partnerships that sold talented women short

By Katie McCabe

New Perspectives on Historical Writing

By Burke, Peter

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

By Judith Mackrell

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

Women and Childbirth in the Twentieth Century: History of the National Birthday Trust Fund, 1928-93

By Williams, A. Susan

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

By White, Deborah Gray

The Examinations of Anne Askew (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)

By Beilin, Elaine V.

Angels of Albion: Women of the Indian Mutiny

By Robinson, Jane

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World)

By Pedersen, Susan

Woman's Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family

By Reed, Evelyn

Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots

By Porter, Linda

The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape

By Ridge, Sophy

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

By Maggs, Sam

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Jean Lucey Pratt, Simon Garfield

Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine (Feminist Perspectives)

By Pfeffer, Naomi

Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (Penguin history)

By Owings, Alison

Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization

By Harvey, Elizabeth

Women in the Holocaust

By Ofer, Dalia

Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

By Friedman, Danielle