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Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history

Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history

FromHistory Extra podcast


Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history

FromHistory Extra podcast

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Dec 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Author Kate Mosse shares inspirational stories of women from across global history – including the forgotten life of her great grandmother Lily WatsonDuring lockdown, author Kate Mosse set out on her own detective story, investigating her family tree to unearth the forgotten life of a fellow novelist – her great grandmother Lily Watson. Drawing on her social media campaign, #womeninhistory, Kate soon uncovered many more lives that she felt were worth sharing, and has brought these unheard and little-known stories from women’s history together in her book Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries. She speaks to Emily Briffett about some of the many characters she encountered. (Ad) Kate Mosse is the author of Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World (Pan Macmillan, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones:https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fwarrior-queens-and-quiet-revolutionaries%2Fkate-mosse%2F9781529092196 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Dec 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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