This week I review Fearless Women by Elizabeth Cobbs. Elizabeth Cobbs Fearless Women Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, March 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Cobbs expands the way in which feminism is used to investigate women who call themselvesContinue reading “Week beginning 18 January 2023”
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Week beginning 28 September 2022
This week I review Paul Kendall’s Queen Elizabeth I Life and Legacy of the Virgin Queen which fits nicely into thinking about the article by Jenny Hyde on the way in which news about the death of Queen Elizabeth 1 compares with news coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth 11. Paul Kendall Queen ElizabethContinue reading “Week beginning 28 September 2022”
Week beginning 3 August 2022
Thank you, NetGalley, for the uncorrected proofs for The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn, and The Second Wife and in exchange for honest reviews. Robert S McElvaine The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle LinesContinue reading “Week beginning 3 August 2022”
Week beginning 4 May 2022
C.L. Taylor’s The Guilty Couple Avon Books UK, Avon June 2022 was provided to me by NetGalley as an uncorrected proof in exchange for an honest review. I was disappointed in this novel, perhaps unwisely comparing it with C. L. Taylor’s The Last Holiday which I found such an excellent read. However, despite my reservationsContinue reading “Week beginning 4 May 2022”
Week beginning 4 August 2021
This week I am catching up with reviews that I have written for NetGalley, posted to Goodreads, and other social networks, but not included in this blog. Both are fiction. The first, Waiting To Begin, by Amanda Prowse was a disappointment, but Louise Candlish’s The Heights was a very satisfying read. ‘The Bipartisan Infrastructure DealContinue reading “Week beginning 4 August 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”
