A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023?-A lasting work of social history- THE TIMES-A genuinely new history of our nation- DAN JONES-This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history- SPECTATORFROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE-S WORKDid you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant-s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they-d evolve to become ever more inferior?These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory-s Normal Women. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women - some fifty per cent of the population - are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.Using research skills hone
