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  An Almost Impossible Thing: The Radical Lives of Britain's Pioneering Women Gardeners - by Fiona Davison

  £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781915068217 | ISBN 10: 1915068215

  ‘Gardening, taken up as a hobby when all the laborious work can be done by a man, is delightful, but as a life’s work for a woman, it is almost an impossible thing.’ Sir Joseph Hooker, 1817-1911.  While working as Head of Libraries and Exhi ... more

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  In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial - by Mona Chollet

  £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529034066 | ISBN 10: 152903406x

  "What remains of the witch hunts? A stubborn misogyny, which still tints the way our societies look at single women, childless women, aging women, or quite simply, free women... Today more than ever, witches tell us about our world and lead the way." ... more

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  Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials - by Marion Gibson

  £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398508507 | ISBN 10: 1398508500

  Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear ‘witch-hunt’ in today’s media, and the misogyny t ... more

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  Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation - by Silvia Federici

  £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241532539 | ISBN 10: 0241532531

  A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism.  Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the Euro ... more

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  Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and Their Place in History - by Louise Raw, foreword by Sheila Rowbotham

  £19.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781441114266 | ISBN 10: 1441114262

  In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books.   Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women ... more

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