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Broadly Speaking is a newsletter and podcast about women's history, hosted by journalist and public historian Isabelle Roughol.  Subscribe at www.isabelleroughol.com. 

 

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The bookshop features books by guests on the podcast, related reads to the topics we cover and other recommended books about the lives of women. Sales help support independent publishing and podcasting and keep Broadly Speaking running. Thank you! 

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Wedded Wife: A Social History of Marriage
Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I And Her Suitors
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
The Story of Art without Men: The instant Sunday Times bestseller
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History
Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War
Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street
The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Wom
Wedded Wife: A Social History of Marriage
A Curious History of Sex
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation
Capote's Women: The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS
Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls (Stories of the Ri
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland
In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History
Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
A Woman's World, 1850–1960
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Wom
Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I And Her Suitors
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: Baby's First Book of Extraordinary Women
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: The Chapter Book Collection
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Inspiring Young Changemakers
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Fantastically Great Women Boxed Set: Gift Editions
Fantastically Great Women Who Made History
Fantastically Great Women Who Worked Wonders
Dream Big, Little Leader
Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World
John Agard's Windrush Child
Windrush Child
Black and British: An Illustrated History
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!
Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World
Red Comet: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire
Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
I Am Not Your Baby Mother: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Becoming
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
The Race To Be Myself
The Barefoot Woman
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL
An Autobiography
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
The Year of Magical Thinking
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I And Her Suitors
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy
Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
Becoming
The Barefoot Woman
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL
An Autobiography
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
The Year of Magical Thinking
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life
Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters
Red Comet: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History
Hags: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*
The Race To Be Myself
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller
My Body
Your Pace or Mine?: What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
The Outrun
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
I Am Not Your Baby Mother: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
I Am Not Your Eve: Short listed for the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction -the £25K WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
The Fatal Tree
Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian
The Dream Maker
Half of a Yellow Sun
Second-Class Citizen
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize
Americanah
Homegoing
Bryson's Dictionary: for Writers and Editors
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood
The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit
The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Hello, Stranger: Stories of Connection in a Divided World
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began
How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
Raising Global Teens: A Practical Handbook for Parenting in the 21st Century