News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

Women's History - 20th Century -

This website can't tell you if a book is in our shop right now or not. Most books can be ordered within 7-10 days, subject to availability. You can always call us or use the enquiry links to ask if a book is in stock or how long it would take to order. (Note: we do our best to keep information up to date, but occasionally prices may have changed.)

Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

Women & Power: A Manifesto - by Mary Beard

£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788160612 | ISBN 10: 1788160614

Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Women & Power: A Manifesto

Order by email

Women & Power: A Manifesto - by Mary Beard

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Women & Power: A Manifesto

by Mary Beard

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
Swell - by Jenny Landreth

£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472938961 | ISBN 10: 1472938968

SHORLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 These days, swimming may seem like an egalitarian pastime, open to anyone with a swimsuit – but this wasn't always the case. In the 19th century, swimming was almost exclusively ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Swell

Order by email

Swell - by Jenny Landreth

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Swell

by Jenny Landreth

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote - by Jane Robinson

£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857523914 | ISBN 10: 0857523910

FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'START THE WEEK'. Set against the colourful background of the entire campaign for women to win the vote, Hearts and Minds tells the remarkable and inspiring story of the suffragists' march on London. 1913: th ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Order by email

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote - by Jane Robinson

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

by Jane Robinson

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea - by Jo Stanley

£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780752488783 | ISBN 10: 0752488783

Traditionally, a woman�s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their darin ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea

Order by email

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea - by Jo Stanley

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea

by Jo Stanley

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute - by Jane Robinson

£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844086603 | ISBN 10: 1844086607

Everyone knows three things about the Women�s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. � 215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

Order by email

A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute - by Jane Robinson

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

by Jane Robinson

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 - by Tony Barnsley

£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905192649 | ISBN 10: 1905192649

"For two months in the autumn of 1910 hundreds of women chainmakers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, who were largely illiterate, who worked 54-hour weeks f ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910

Order by email

Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 - by Tony Barnsley

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910

by Tony Barnsley

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War - by Virginia Nicholson

£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141020624 | ISBN 10: 0141020628

Before the First World War a single woman had one aim in life: to get married. But three-quarters of a million British soldiers were killed in that war, leaving not enough men to go around and a generation of so-called 'Surplus Women'. What became of ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

Order by email

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War - by Virginia Nicholson

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

by Virginia Nicholson

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s - by Jennifer Worth

£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753823835 | ISBN 10: 0753823837

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

Order by email

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s - by Jennifer Worth

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

by Jennifer Worth

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - by as told by Dr. Ben Reitman

£11.00 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781902593036 | ISBN 10: 1902593030

The frank uncensored story of a wandering woman of the underworld. Intimate facts of a woman hobo's methods and habits: a life story that has no parallel. Swapping tales around the campfire in hobo jungles, hanging out on free love commune farm ... more
View book details

Ordering online

The order button below will go to book's details on our customer order website - it will open in a new browser tab or window

But if the book details are not shown on the order website, please come back to this page and use the Order by email link instead, and tell us that the book was not shown on the order website - thank you

Order Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

Order by email

Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - by as told by Dr. Ben Reitman

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates
Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):
Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Enquire about this book

Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

by as told by Dr. Ben Reitman

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address
Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):
Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order?

Contact us

Our address

Call us

Email us

News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

Women's History - 20th Century -

Ordering online

Order by email

Women & Power: A Manifesto - by Mary Beard

Enquire about this book

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Ordering online

Order by email

Swell - by Jenny Landreth

Enquire about this book

Swell

Ordering online

Order by email

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote - by Jane Robinson

Enquire about this book

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Ordering online

Order by email

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea - by Jo Stanley

Enquire about this book

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea

Ordering online

Order by email

A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute - by Jane Robinson

Enquire about this book

A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

Ordering online

Order by email

Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 - by Tony Barnsley

Enquire about this book

Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910

Ordering online

Order by email

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War - by Virginia Nicholson

Enquire about this book

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

Ordering online

Order by email

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s - by Jennifer Worth

Enquire about this book

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

Ordering online

Order by email

Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - by as told by Dr. Ben Reitman

Enquire about this book

Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

Privacy policy