Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries by Sarah Gristwood Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.4 MbOverview: A captivating collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women’s experience—of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world—has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn’t. In […]
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah GristwoodRequirements: .ePUB reader, 8.28 MBOverview: Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I’s courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of […]
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah GristwoodRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3mbOverview: In sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary set of women created a unique culture of feminine power that saw them run the continent for decades. Despite often being on opposing sides of power struggles both armed and otherwise, through family ties and […]
Fabulous Frocks: A celebration of dress design by Jane Eastoe, Sarah GristwoodRequirements: .ePUB reader, 9 MBOverview: A celebration of the dress in all its forms, Fabulous Frocks is sure to fire any fashionista’s imagination. Since Coco Chanel invented the little black dress in 1926 it has become a wardrobe staple. Even considering the many decades […]
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah GristwoodRequirements: .MP3 reader, 399 MBOverview: The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they’re dismissed as something existing only in books and song – those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy. Not […]
