Herstory: An Aspects of History Anthology

Herstory is a collection of articles, short stories and interviews, by some of the best-known women writers, chronicling the female contribution to history.

The book is broad in its scope, encompassing an array of periods throughout the past from ancient Greece and Rome to the Crusades and the Second World War. Historical figures include Catherine the Great; Elizabeth II; Nell Gwyn and Caroline Lamb.

Antonia Fraser; Sarah Gristwood; Helen Fry; Tessa Dunlop; Alice Loxton and Bettany Hughes, as well as 2018 Reith Lecturer Margaret MacMillan are just some of the many historians and authors featured.

With an introduction by novelist and writer Miranda Malins, herself writing a biography of the Cromwell dynasty, Herstory is essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of women on antiquity via the medieval period through to modern history.

Herstory: Introduction, by Miranda Malins
Five Questions on War, by Margaret MacMillan
Tainted Love: Antonia Fraser interviewed by Gretchen Friemann
Empire on the Mind: Mary Beard interviewed by Tessa Dunlop
Mysterious Woman: Lucy Worsley on Agatha Christie
The Wedding to End All Weddings – 20 November 1947, by Tessa Dunlop
Henrietta Maria: Warrior Queen, by Leanda de Lisle
Invisible Spies: Women Behind Enemy Lines, by Helen Fry
Short Story: Sugar Plum, by Lucy Ashe
Pride's Purge, by Alice Hunt
Secret Voice: Sarah Gristwood Interview
The Empress and the Pandemic, by Lucy Ward
Historical Heroes: Nell Gwyn, by Nicola Cornick
Unionism & The Treaty, by Gretchen Friemann
Revolt in Cornwall, by Kate Werran
Rome is Where the Heart Is. Daisy Dunn Interviewed.
Alice of Antioch: Rebel Princess, by Katherine Pangonis
Historical Heroes: Charles Dickens, by J.C. Briggs
Survival of the Fittest, by Anne O’Brien
Otto von Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor was made of Flesh and Blood, by Katja Hoyer
The Rise and Fall of Mercia, by M.J. Porter
Miranda Malins on The Puritan Princess
Winters in the World, by Eleanor Parker
Seven Wonders: Bettany Hughes, Interviewed by Tessa Dunlop
Elisabeth de Valois and the Mother who Made Her a Queen, by Leah Redmond Chang
Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the Capetian Dynasty, by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Short Story: A Book of Hours, by Elizabeth Buchan
A Sea of Tulips: The Dutch Resistance in WW2, by Deborah Swift
Crossbows and Almonds: A Woman’s Life in Fifteenth-Century England, by Diane Watt
Espionage and the Telegraph, by Barbara Emerson
Goodnight Vienna, Jane Thynne Interview
Historical Heroes: Mary Renault, by Antonia Senior
Mary Wortley Montagu and the Anti-Female Bias, by Jo Willett
Cecily Neville: Recovering a 15th century Matriarch, by Annie Garthwaite
Coming of Age at 18, Alice Loxton Interview