When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition. Yet their medical and organisational skills were so impressive that in 1915 Flora and Louisa were asked by the War Ministry to return to London and...

This biography of Donald Soper reveals a man of many facets and an unwavering faith. Brian Frost asks how this Christian minister, a socialist and pacifist with radical views, came to to receive so much affection and acclaim from millions.

Bernstein and Politi present never-before-published information and revelations regarding Pope John Paul II. Both a biography and a political examination, the book questions the secret agenda of the Church.

Kevin Ruane reports how the Polish government denied and tried to cover up its involvement in the death of Jerzy Popieluszko, whose assassination in 1984 it had ordered. The outcry over his death transformed the political landscape of Poland and shrines to the priest's memory now adorn practically every Polish town.

'They've taken over our culture and our way of life'. 'Britain for whites only'. 'Islam is Britain's biggest problem'. These are not strange words in Britain today, nor are the irate faces of far right street mobs strangers to our screens. In this book, Hsiao-Hung Pai, an 'inscrutable foreigner', follows a group of individuals who got caught up in the wave of far right street movements that began in 2009. Among those who Pai gets in with are Darren,...

Not since Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake' have the peasants been so revolting. Western capitalism's elites are bemused: Brexit, Trump, and maybe more eruptions to follow. But their rulers were so good to them! Hillary Clinton called the ingrates 'a basket of deplorables', Bob Geldof flicked them a V sign, Tony Blair thought voters too thick to understand the question. These people who know best, these snooterati with their faux-liberal ways,...

Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. This book is about the man that people have forgotten - Young Mandela, the committed terrorist who left his wife and children behind to spend a year living on the run in the racist South Africa of the early 1960s, adopting false names and disguises and sleeping in safe houses.

As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock went to work at No. 10 Downing Street during the last eighteen months of Margaret Thatcher's prime ministership. It was a pivotal time in her career and life. She was the only other woman in the Cabinet Room when Mrs Thatcher eventually resigned, brought down by her closest political allies. As a left-leaning English Literature graduate, she was against much of what Thatcher stood for, but as she worked for...

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It's time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women. In this book, you'll meet the working-class...

Sophie Scholl was one of the members of an underground German protest movement against Nazi rule, based at Munich University, during the Second World War. Drawing on a variety of resources, including original documents, Frank McDonough tells the story of her brave struggle against the Nazi regime and examines her legacy of heroism in Germany.