Jill Liddington’s new book, Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote, was published by Virago Press in May 2006. She is also co-author of One Hand Tied Behind Us: the rise of the women’s suffrage movement (Virago Press, 1978) which quickly became a suffrage classic.

The Long Road to Greenham won the Fawcett Book Prize in 1990. Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority is among Jill's publications about Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax. Listen to the Woman's Hour piece about Anne Lister from 6th Nov. See also: Anne Lister events: 2010

Jill is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She lives in Mytholmroyd near Halifax in West Yorkshire.

Rebel Girls has been shortlisted for the Portico Book Prize 2008.