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Women's London

A Tour Guide to Great Lives
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Product Type: Paperback / softback

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Women's London is the only guidebook that focuses on the women who have shaped London through the centuries and the legacy they have left behind. This new book provides the perfect opportunity to explore sights, statues, plaques and buildings associated with famous and some not so famous women who have left their mark on London's heritage, culture and society. Their stories include scientists and suffragettes, reformers and royals, military and medical pioneers, authors and artists, fashion and female firsts … and more. The author, a popular London tour guide and lecturer, specialises in women's history and has provided a series of original self-guided walking tours taking you to historic areas where important women lived, worked and are commemorated. Illustrated with new full-colour photography and specially commissioned maps, Women's London will inspire visitors and Londoners alike to discover how much London owes to women.

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Pages 264
Publish Date 2018-03-06
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Size 5.8" x 8.25" x 0.6"
Author Rachel Kolsky

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The Entertainment Report
A book that’s a most novel idea! 
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Library Journal
An essential purchase across the consumer, public, and academic market segments owing to its singular scope and acceptable execution.
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Library Journal
Another London
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The Londonist
Every page of this beautiful, bountiful book brings a new revelation. It's that rare breed of guide book that you'll want to read cover to cover, preferably while out on the streets tracking down the locations. We can't recommend it highly enough.
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The Jewish Chronicle
From the East End to royalty, from fashion, art and culture to medicine, archaeology and politics, the guide whisks readers around the capital to discover the less well
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Book Riot
If you’re planning a trip across the Pond anytime soon (or if you want to indulge in a little armchair travel) you’ll want to pack this guidebook to London, which offers self
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Shoutout
Kolsky does not shy away from difficult history: she looks for example at the disputes within the Suffragist movement, between socialists and pacifists on the one hand who opposed the First World War, and those feminists who threw their weight behind “King and Country”. And there is much to celebrate and inspire, from Diane Abbot becoming the first black female MP in 1987 to the first female police officer back in 1919. 
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Mature Times
Kolsky’s guidebook is packed with information to fascinate and inspire.
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Midwest Book Review
Profusely illustrated, expertly organized and presented, an inherently fascinating and informative reade from cover to cover, "Women's London" is an ideal reference and resource for planning sightseeing trips and tours of the great city of London with a unique and special reference to the role women have played in its formation.
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Camden New Journal
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Trailblazergirl.com
Women’s London: A Tour Guide to Great Lives will have you seeing London in a new light and celebrating women!

About the Author

Prize-winning London Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky runs Go London Tours. Her wide range of walks and visits specializes in exploring Jewish heritage, discovering women’s history, and uncovering the human stories behind London's buildings

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