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

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Joyous, celebratory and engaging, it is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made. One person’s heroine is another’s mortal enemy, it depends whose side you're on, but we can still salute the determination of these warrior queens and pirate commanders who survived, as women, in a desperate and dangerous man’s world. 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. Kaidu failed to secure his daughter’s succession as Grand Khan and for centuries she was forgotten, until an 18th eighteenth-century French orientalist and traveller wrote a story inspired by Khutulun’s life story – ‘Turandot’, or the ‘Turkish Princess’ – though rather than wrestling her suitors, his princess sets them riddles. Audienecs can expect a fabulous theatrical event - part detective story, part love letter to history - packed with fun facts and did-you-knows.

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Joyous, celebratory and engaging, this is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made. But it is also an intensely moving story of the forgotten life of the author’s great-grandmother, Lily Watson, a famous and highly-successful novelist in her day who has all but disappeared from the record. Later in life, when her lover was killed, she took revenge by storming his murderers’ castle at Doona and acquired a second nickname, the ‘Dark Lady of Doona’.

Within these pages you'll meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. 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.

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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 event for everyone, friends and family, parents, and teenagers. Within these pages you’ll meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. If she won, they had to present her with one hundred horses – some versions of the story say one thousand – and she is reputed to have built up her own herd of ten thousand horses. Instead, she went to war to secure her rights and, extraordinarily for these times, the clergy and nobility supported her. Those women who do make it into the history books are often those who were most visible, most celebrated, most notorious, who lived their lives in public view, though that doesn’t necessarily preserve their legacy.Why not join Kate Mosse in her first ever one-woman show celebrating amazing women, dazzling history, and even get a sneak early preview of Kate’s latest novel? In 1851, she led an all-female army consisting of 6,000 warriors against the Egba fortress of Abeokuta. 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. In 1851, a British naval commander drew Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh in her uniform, armed with a musket and holding a captive's severed head. She endowed many convents and religious institutions and was a generous patron of the arts, yet, despite all this, she is barely a whisper in the history books and there is no major mausoleum or tomb dedicated to her.

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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. Why not join Kate Mosse in her first ever one-woman show celebrating amazing women, dazzling history, and even get a sneak early preview of Kate's latest novel?Enhance your visit to Wycombe Swan by booking a table for our popular pre-show dining, and enjoy tasty and freshly cooked meals moments from your seats. One has to guard against eulogising any aspect of Crusader history – they were bloody religious wars of conquest and devastation – but, Melisende is a woman I admire. With toe-tapping music, video, and a few mystery objects – from a 1920s football to an 19th sheep – Kate will both share the story of how she tracked down her long-forgotten relative, novelist Lily Watson (in whose literary footsteps she is walking) and, at the same time, ask how history is made and who gets to make it.