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  • Labour Women in Power

    Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century

    by Paula Bartley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the political lives and contributions of Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams, the only five women to achieve Cabinet rank in a Labour Government from the party’s creation until Blair became Prime Minister. Paula Bartley brings together newly discovered archival material and published work to provide a survey of these women, all ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ellen Wilkinson

    From Red Suffragist to Government Minister

    by Paula Bartley ...
    Series series Revolutionary Lives
    Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time.Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family, Wilkinson was involved in women's suffrage, helped found the British Communist Party, led the Labour Party's anti-fascist campaign, headed the iconic ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen Victoria

    by Paula Bartley ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    Paula Bartley’s Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria’s personal and political actions are discussed in relation to contemporary shifts in Britain’s society, politics and culture, examining to what extent they did – or did not – influence events throughout her reign.Drawing from contemporary sources, including Queen Victoria’s own diaries, as well as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Emmeline Pankhurst

    by Paula Bartley ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    In this well-structured, fluent and lively account, Paula Bartley uses new archival material to assess whether Pankhurst should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive.Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent campaigner for the women's right to vote and was transformed into a popular heroine of the early twentieth century. Early in life she was attracted to socialism, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Trailblazers

    The First Women Elected to Government

    by Paula Bartley ...
    In 1907, a lesbian feminist vegetarian stepped into male history. She was one of nineteen female Finnish politicians, the first women in the world to be elected to the ruling body of any country. These women sparked a chain reaction that would ignite across the globe. More – many, many more – were to follow.Trailblazers is the story of some of the most extraordinary women – from Afghanistan to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain

    Making a Difference Across the Political Spectrum

    by Paula Bartley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book serves as an introduction to the extraordinary diversity of women’s activism. Paula Bartley's original research is supported by a range of writing to provide a powerful impression of the actions taken by groups of women from across the social and political spectrum, making the book invaluable to both students and interested readers. These women set out to make a difference to their ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Prostitution

    Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914

    by Dr Paula Bartley, Paula Bartley ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 is the first comprehensive overview of attempts to eradicate prostitution from English society, including discussion of early attempts at reform and prevention through to the campaigns of the social purists.Prostitution looks in depth at the various reform institutions which were set up to house prostitutes, analysing the motives of the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

    Gender, Class and Ethnicity

    by Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke ...
    Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Women Who Shaped Politics

    Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape

    by Sophy Ridge ...
    Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics.Never has the role of women in the political world ever been more on the news agenda, and Sophy has interviewed current and former politicians including among others, Nicola Sturgeon, Ruth Davidson, Betty Boothroyd gain exclusive insight into the role women play in politics at ... Read more

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  • Irish Nationalist Women, 1900–1918

    by Senia Pašeta ...
    This is a major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early twentieth century, from learning and buying Irish to participating in armed revolt. Using memoirs, reminiscences, letters and diaries, Senia Pašeta explores the question of what it meant to be a female nationalist in this volatile period, revealing how Irish women formed nationalist, cultural and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Gladstone and Disraeli

    by Stephen J. Lee ...
    Series series Questions and Analysis in History
    Gladstone and Disraeli surveys and compares the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how Gladstone and Disraeli emerged as leaders of the two leading parties and goes on to consider their time in power, analyzing many different aspects of their careers.Using a wide variety of sources and historiography, Lee compares and contrasts the beliefs of Gladstone and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD