Women's History

March is Women's History Month. Check out these stories of amazing women and their contributions and successes.

Updated March 6, 2025
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The Cleopatras : the forgotten queens of Egypt
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
Paper Book
'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. ...
A history of women in 101 objects
Hirsch, Annabelle
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women.Open up this...
The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science
Zernike, Kate
Paper Book
'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry The remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a triumphant account of...
Fantastic tales for fearless girls
Newman, Samantha
Paper Book
Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance
Targoff, Ramie
Paper Book
'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph 'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper '[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York Times A New...

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