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

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We hope the list will make you smile, nod your head in recognition, feel amazed and grateful to so many courageous, inventive, clever, brave, principled, entertaining, world-changing women. About how, launching the Women’s prize back in 96, Kate – 5ft 2 – was forced to stand on a cardboard box to have any chance of visibility behind a lectern made for tall men. More likely in the early 80s, when living away from home for the first time, in those heady days of “discovering” feminism, of Reclaim the Night marches, of consciousness-raising groups.

Eastbourne Theatres are the Congress Theatre, Devonshire Park Theatre and Winter Garden, with a combined capacity of more than 3,500 seats and play host to a variety of touring productions. Little-known right to help YOU beat NHS waiting lists without having to wait for hospitals to invite you.Enheduanna, the first named author in history, from Ur in Sumeria – a high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BCE. Ethel Smyth, the great suffragette campaigner and composer, and the only composer to have been awarded a Damehood. It questions why some people's contributions are lauded and seen as significant, whereas others vanish into silence.

Ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. The full list is varied and fabulous, it sings with admiration for so many inspiring women throughout the ages and those who are making history today. 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.The status quo is very powerful; women are often made to feel grateful they’ve been allowed in there at all.

Instead, she went to war to secure her rights and, extraordinarily for these times, the clergy and nobility supported her. A sweeping love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, this is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. 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. The first 500 nominations received so far will be published on International Women’s Day on 8 March, on panmacmillan. When they arrived for an anatomy exam, they were confronted by 200-or-more male students jeering and pelting them with mud, driving the college’s pet sheep into the exam hall.Joyous, celebratory and engaging, this is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made. The Ghost Ship, the third novel in the bestselling series The Joubert Family Chronicles by Kate Mosse, will publish in July 2023.

On selected shows Groups of 10+ are entitled to ticket discounts, fee-free booking and free group organiser tickets. 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. There’s Whina Cooper (1895-1994), Māori activist and elder, who led a protest march against her people’s loss of land – a 640km trek from the topmost tip of North Island to Parliament in Wellington.On a second family tree, someone had written a red H next to some male names and a green C next to others, all women. 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.

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