Related category: Ireland, Scotland & Wales
Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£11.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786838544 | ISBN 10: 1786838540
This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women’s movement in modern Wales. Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of democracy and the right to vote, and in oppositi ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785303081 | ISBN 10: 1785303082
Celtic women, both 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' have often been overlooked in recorded history, while their male counterparts hogged the limelight. Too often written by the victors, and written by men, for men, the incredible stories of Scottish, I ... more
View book details£8.50 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845275501 | ISBN 10: 1845275500
A volume tracing the contribution of the North Wales Suffragists to the campaign for votes for women during the period 1907-14. The campaign to secure votes for women spread rapidly across North Wales in the years before the First World War. ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783167883 | ISBN 10: 1783167882
The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as ‘Rebeccaism’ or ‘the Rebecca riots’, stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat. The story is remembered in vivid and compelling ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909983236 | ISBN 10: 1909983233
he first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century. Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849013642 | ISBN 10: 1849013640
The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet D ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781870206969 | ISBN 10: 1870206967
Mountaineers, amblers, star-gazers, river-watchers, cavers, climbers, farmers, artists, sailors and ecologists - all these writers explore the elemental forces of the Welsh landscapes which have shaped their lives. They all share a deep, personal ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781870206907 | ISBN 10: 1870206908
This innovative and ground-breaking anthology covers a century of Welsh women's political writings, from the 1830s to the 1930s; its diverse contributors include female Chartists, patriotic defenders of Wales and its language, feminists working for w ... more
View book details£6.95 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780954088101 | ISBN 10: 0954088107
A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, grows up in a small town on the coast of North Wales. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales. Sugar & Sl ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780708315910 | ISBN 10: 0708315917
Out Of The Shadows reveals the fascinating story of women's lives in Wales during the twentieth century. In this major contribution to the gendered history of Wales, Deirdre Beddoe draws on wide-ranging historical sources, including extensive archiva ... more
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