{"product_id":"9780008601706","title":"Normal Women : 900 Years of Making History","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Gregory, Philippa \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 October 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 688 pages\u003cbr\u003e241 x 161 x 47 | 1056g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A lasting work of social history THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A genuinely new history of our nation DAN JONES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history SPECTATOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Philippa Gregory uses all her bestseller skills to weave a narrative with pace' ANTONIA FRASER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFES WORK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasants Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that theyd evolve to become ever more inferior?These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregorys Normal Women. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women  some fifty per cent of the population  are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The normal women you will meet in her pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot. They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves. They are there in the archives  if you look  and they made our history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Youll lose count of the number of things you learn about women and their skewed place in history  the book reframes the past  an essential read INDEPENDENT, FIVE-STAR REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45781231075568,"sku":"9780008601706","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780008601706_80604a39-1c4b-4e56-a4b3-d05c635656dd.jpg?v=1713455056","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9780008601706","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}