Spanning from the Norman Conquest to the ordination of the first women priests in the Church of England, this sweeping work challenges the idea that women have been merely passive observers in the great pageant of English history. On the contrary—Gregory shows us blacksmiths and brewers, cross-dressing soldiers and rebel nuns, market women and midwives, many of whom made space for themselves in a world that rarely wrote them into its chronicles.
The prose is accessible, the stories often astonishing, and the takeaway clear: history isn’t just made in palaces—it’s forged in kitchens, workshops, gallows fields, and voting halls. While some historians may quibble with Gregory’s interpretive flourishes, readers will find themselves riveted, inspired, and indignant in equal measure.
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