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Feisty and Fiery and Fierce: Badass Celtic Women to Live Your Life by from Scotland, Ireland & Wales - by Mairi Kidd

£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
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Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990 - by Angela V. John

£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912109500 | ISBN 10: 1912109506

This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an acclaimed biographi ... more
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One Woman Walks Wales - by Ursula Martin

£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909983601 | ISBN 10: 1909983608

Ursula Martin never thought she would walk 3700 miles around Wales, but following a cancer diagnosis it seemed like the only reasonable thing to do. In 17 months, she traversed beaches and mountains, farms and urban sprawl. She received unimaginable ... more
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Votes for Women: The North Wales Suffragists' Campaign: 1907-1914 - by Barbara Lawson-Reay

£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
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Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots - by Rhian E. Jones

£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
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The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias - by Jasmine Donahaye

£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
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My Father's Places - by Aeronwy Thomas

£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
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Changing Times: Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s - by Edited by Deirdre Beddoe

£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906784102 | ISBN 10: 1906784108

Mornings were used to teach the basic three Rs and to progress us through our Janet and John readers. I only learned much later, in my thirties, how limited Janet's activites had been in comparison to her brother John's and how some scholars linked t ... more
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In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology - by Edited by Jane Macnamee

£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
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The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage - by Edited by Jane Aaron and Ursula Masson

£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
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Sugar and Slate - by Charlotte Williams

£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
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Out Of The Shadows: A History Of Women In Twentieth-Century Wales - by Deirdre Beddoe

£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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