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America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt,
The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the...
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?
Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and...
The Girl from Nowhere: A Romani Ghetto Life
My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes.Maybe I should have given the family business a chance...BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik'Eliska's story is...
Some Liked It Hot
Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s
Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures. A time before the Pill, when divorce...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
A Circle of Five
On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
A Circle of Five
On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change
In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image - and...
Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women
Author: Liz RidealFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 292mm, 240 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2018Madam and Eve is a rich, varied and exciting overview of how women artists have depicted...