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WOMEN'S HISTORY

NORMAL WOMEN 900 YEARS OF MAKING HISTORY

Philippa Gregory William Collins, 688 pages, £25

Written in the colourful and thought-provoking style of Philippa Gregory's historical fiction, this stupendous compendium of the past 900 years of women's history in England has much to offer the family historian. Injustice against women goes back at least as far as the Norman Conquest, purports Gregory, but for most family historians, it will be her discussion of women in the

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