Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

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I am a full-time carer [to her much-loved mother-in-law, with teamwork from her husband and brother-in-law]. With toe-tapping music, video, and a few mystery objects - from a 1920s football to a 19th-century sheep - Kate will share, both the story of how she tracked down her long-forgotten relative, novelist Lily Watson (in whose literary footsteps she's walking) and, at the same time, ask how history is made and who gets to make it. JLS fans go wild as boyband announces new tour dates for summer 2024: 'This just gave me goosebumps!

There were many women freedom-riders before Rosa Parks, in the same way that there were thousands of suffragettes. The extraordinary Indian lawyer Dorothy Noel ‘Dorf’ Bonarjee, who studied at UCL and won the Bardic Chair at the 1928 Eisteddford, the first foreign student and first woman to have done so. Emma Barnett, Paddy O'Connell and Ritula Shah - some favourite Radio 4 voices - share what they have been reading in 2022. Unlike Florence Nightingale, Seacole – who was vastly famous in her day – has almost completely disappeared from the record. Tyler Christopher's tragic life: General Hospital star who was married to Eva Longoria admitted he 'flatlined' three times in the grips of alcohol addiction.

As Virginia Woolf wrote: “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

In 1955 Alabama, Parks (as if we need reminding) refused to give up her seat in the ‘coloured’ section of a bus for a white passenger. When Caroline Criado-Perez suggested it would be good to have a woman on a banknote – and Jane Austen is hardly at the vanguard of the feminist revolution – she lived with death threats for several years.Within the first few days, we’d had thousands of nominations from all over the world and from every period in history. You’ll meet the Mothers of Invention and Pirate Queens, the unsung heroines of medicine and science, to those who reached for the stars or took up arms to fight for what they believed in.

Now, after years of campaigning – not least, thanks to “Mary Anning Rocks” – her reputa­tion is secure with a statue by Denise Dutton commis­sioned for 2022. Well, you can’t fit everybody in,’ Kate Mosse says to me, ‘but it’s better to make a start than be overwhelmed and not begin at all. The eldest of the four daughters of Baldwin II, she was raised to succeed her father and her name appeared alongside his on official documents and in diplomatic correspondence. And they are the ones who often have disappeared from history – because it’s not just about somebody being celebrated in their day; it’s about their legacy.

The notorious 17th-century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who are part-inspiration for my next novel, the Ghost Ship. It is, in part, a love letter to the importance of history and about how we cannot know who we are without knowing where we come from. The later years of her life remain murky, and she was killed in a domestic dispute rather than in battle, but her legacy as a fearless and courageous woman lives on. If you're not a Friend, you can sign-up to receive benefits including no booking fees, priority booking, and discounts. stumble upon a cornucopia: a vibrant, colourful stall piled high with so much unexpected, mouth-wateringly fresh food – sweet, savoury, salty, toffee-scented-caramelised sugars, rainbow colours – that you don’t know where to begin.

I'm delighted that Mantle will be publishing my gender-swapping story of love and adventure at sea, inspired in part by the real-life stories of 18th century pirate duo Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Her most recent non-fiction book, Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, is now the basis for a one-woman theatre show, touring UK venues from 28 February-13 April 2023.This I loved too, realising that landscape — a delight in the mountains, the moors and the fells — was at the heart of Lily's historical fiction, as it is of mine. Featuring a joyous cast of characters – from the first named author in history to the 19th century woman who discovered global warming – this is an evening for everyone, friends and family, parents, and teenagers.