• Online bookshop home
  • Bargain books
  • Coming soon
  • eBooks and eReaders
  • Family history special offers
  • New books
  • Signed Copies
  • Special Promotion : Suffragettes
  • Vouchers for Findmypast and BMD
  • Writer of the Month
  • Bestsellers
  • Featured Items
  • Air Force Records
  • Archives and records
  • Battle of Waterloo
  • Births, marriages & deaths data
  • British Empire
  • Census data
  • Charles Dickens' Life and Works
  • Crime and policing
  • Domesday Book
  • Facsimile editions
  • Falklands War
  • Family history
  • Festival of Britain
  • Fiction & Literature
  • First World War
  • First World War trench maps & battle guides
  • Genealogical storage
  • Gifts & humour
  • Great Britons
  • History of Britain
  • Home Guard
  • Intelligence & espionage
  • Irish ancestors
  • Jewish ancestry
  • Kings & Queens of England
  • Local history
  • Maps and atlases
  • Medals & cap badges
  • Military ancestors
  • Military history
  • Naval history
  • Peninsular Wars
  • Reading aids
  • Second World War
  • Second World War battle maps & guides
  • Shire books
  • Social history
  • Software
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Special Promotion : Garden History
  • Sporting history
  • The National Archives books
  • Titanic
  • Tracing Your Ancestors
  • Transport history
  • Will, probate & legal records
  • Women's history

Women's history

Naval Wives & Mistresses by Margarette Lincoln An innovative study of naval women in the second half of the 18th century who stayed at home while their men went to sea. more £14.99

Nella Last's War In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. more £8.99

Octavia Hill by Gilllian Darley By the age of 50, Octavia Hill was one of the most influential women of the Victorian era, but she began life without formal education, as the eighth daughter of eleven children in a family of little rank and no money. more £14.99

Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald 'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War... more Only £13.49 Was £14.99 You save £1.50

Sisters by Barbara Mortimer Sisters features over 150 previously unpublished interviews from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. more £6.99

Sisters in Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and incredibly, remain largely untold. more £6.99

Suffragettes by Frank Meeres Frank Meeres presents all the important developments in the suffrage movement in a succinct chronological way, bringing the history of the time vividly to life. more Only £12.99 Was £14.99 You save £2.00

Sugar Girls by Duncan Barrett Tales of adversity, resilience and youthful high spirits are woven together to provide a moving insight into a lost way of life, as well as a timeless testament to the experience of being young and female. more Only £5.99 Was £6.99 You save £1.00

The Ascent Of Woman by Melanie Phillips The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is a story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. more £10.99

The Suffragettes In Pictures by Diane Atkinson A pictorial archive of moving and often shocking images from the Suffragette Fellowship Collection. more £14.99