This week’s review is of another Pen & Sword publication, this time reviewing Beverley Adams’ The Forgotten Tudor Royal Margaret Douglas, Grandmother to King James VI & I. I have reviewed two of her books, The Rebel Suffragette (December 1, 2021) and Ada Lovelace The World’s First Computer Programmer ( March 29, 2023). The PenContinue reading “Week beginning 12 July 2023”
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Week beginning 13 October 2021
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox Dressed for Freedom The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism University of Illinois Press 2021. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox’s thoughtful approach to a topic that is likely to create some controversy is evident early in her book when, as well as the theory thatContinue reading “Week beginning 13 October 2021”
Week beginning 12th May 2021
Book review: Peter Hore, Bletchley Park’s Secret Source Churchill’s Wrens and the Y Service in World War 11, Greenhill Books, 2021 I am not a reader of war books and before reading Blethcley Park’s Secret Source my knowledge of women’s contribution to this aspect of the war was through novels; my research on Barbara PymContinue reading “Week beginning 12th May 2021”
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