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Voyage Round His Mother
The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
By Didier Eribon (Translated from French by Michael Lucey)
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La Vie en Rose
Pink: The History of a Color
By Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding)
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Baseline Blues
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 Per Cent
By Conor Niland
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Her Family & Other Animals
Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
By Avril Horner
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Sue Bridehead Revisited
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
By Paula Byrne
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister
By Marc Kristal
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The Pen & the Handkerchief
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
By Hilary Mantel
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The Allure of the Everyday
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
By Benjamin Moser
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Blast from the Past
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art & Life & Sudden Death
By Laura Cumming
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Running Free
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors
By Rachel Hewitt
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No Way Through the Painted Ceiling
Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great
By Rosalind P Blakesley
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All About Mee
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Sense & Insolvency
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
By Devoney Looser
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From the October 2022 Issue
Move Over, Michelangelo
The Story of Art without Men
By Katy Hessel
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Sulphur & Sensibility
Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature
By Sophie Vasset
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Pioneering Paintresses
Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760–1830
By Paris A Spies-Gans
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From the June 2022 Issue
Paintbrushes & Broomsticks
Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700
By Diane Wolfthal
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Young at Heart
Jane Austen, Early and Late
By Freya Johnston
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From the November 2021 Issue
Printmakers in Motion
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
By Jenny Uglow
From the September 2021 Issue
Anyone for Feminism?
All In: An Autobiography
By Billie Jean King
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In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.
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The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
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The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
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