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The Rise of the Lionesses: Incredible Moments from Women’s Football

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Flo Lloyd-Hughes - Author

Choose this for a football-focused introduction to women’s football history, especially if the reader enjoys real players, sporting milestones, statistics and short factual sections alongside longer historical stories.

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At a Glance

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Sexism· ExplainedWomen’s sport· ExplainedHistorical change· Explained

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Discrimination or prejudiceEmotional intensityDiscrimination

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Beyond the Cover

sexismwomen’s sporthistorical changepioneersplayerscoachestournament success

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Themes in Context

Women’s football challenging gender expectations

The book follows women who played, coached or developed women’s football despite attitudes that treated the game as unsuitable for them.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: The historical framing presents these barriers as part of the context for understanding how women’s football developed.

Talk about: How does the book explain whether attitudes changed because of individual pioneers, wider organisations, or both?

Achievement and sporting legacy

Profiles connect early figures such as Nettie Honeyball and Lily Parr with later players, coaches and England’s tournament achievements.

How the book presents it: The selection and language celebrate contribution, persistence and sporting success, while the historical structure gives achievements a longer context.

Talk about: Which kinds of contribution does the book value most: scoring, leadership, coaching, or changing opportunities for others?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

Its distinctive value is the connection between pioneering figures, later players and England’s major tournament achievements, showing women’s football as a developing history rather than only a recent success story.

What Deserves Attention

The historical account includes adversity, sexism and the English FA’s effects on women’s football. These experiences are presented as part of the sport’s history.

A Conversation Worth Having

What does the book suggest helped women’s football change, and whether do its player profiles give enough attention to barriers as well as victories?

Reading Approach

Let the reader follow their interests: read chronologically for the wider history, or dip into a player or tournament profile first, then discuss how individual achievements connect across periods.

Confidence & Basis

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What remains unconfirmed

Women’s football challenging gender expectations: The available detail does not establish how fully opposing arguments or institutional decisions are examined.
Achievement and sporting legacy: The balance between sporting statistics, personal stories and wider social impact is not clear.

The Rise of the Lionesses: Incredible Moments from Women's Football – Walker Books UK

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Checked: 20 September 2026.

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