Gavin Plumley

With All Due Deference

Maria Theresa: Empress – The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment

By Richard Bassett

Lucy Moore

Lifting the Rug

Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

By Dorothy Armstrong

Miranda Seymour

Peril in St Petersburg

The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

By Helen Rappaport

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The Curious Destinies of Queen Victoria’s Granddaughters

By Frances Welch

Laura Ashe

The Quill & the Distaff

Medieval Women in Their Own Words

Medieval Women: Voices & Visions

By Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison (edd)

Bijan Omrani

I, Messalina

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

William Whyte

With God on Her Side

When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women

By Sarah C Williams

Arabella Byrne

Letting Go of the Pram

The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters

By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz (Translated from Spanish by Lizzie Davis)

Peter Marshall

Mothers, Mystics & Martyrs

Women and the Reformations: A Global History

By Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Frances Wilson

Best of Frenemies

The Virago Book of Friendship

By Rachel Cooke (ed)

Richard Davenport-Hines

Hostess with the Mostess

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

By Sonia Purnell

Glenn Richardson

Crown of Thorns

Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen

By Mary Hollingsworth

John Man

From Jungle Child to Rainforest Activist

We Will Not Be Saved: A Memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest

By Nemonte Nenquimo, with Mitch Anderson

D J Taylor

Debs’ Disgust

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

By Ariane Bankes

Gillian Slovo

Apartheid in the Family

Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa

By Cato Pedder