Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
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Warrior Queens - Who Do You Think Should Be in History?
When we were in the longest and darkest for many of us, I was publishing a novel. So I wanted to do something positive. And so I simply put out on social media a question. Who do you think is the one woman from history you would like to celebrate or you think should be better known? Within days I had thousands of nominations from people from all over the world. It was just a joyous thing to me that these thousands and thousands of names all flying through the air. That was of course the genesis of the book before I went in search of my great-grandmother.
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