Sarah Lonsdale Book Launch - Wildly Different

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Traverse the globe on an empowering journey with historian Sarah Lonsdale to discover how five women reclaimed nature in a man’s world – from our doorstep in the Peak District to sub-Saharan Africa. In Wildly Different meet Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain’s first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa. Discover the story of Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men’s climbing breeches… The book launch event will include an author Q&A and signing, drinks and nibbles, plus a chance to talk to Sarah about her other book, Rebel Women Between the Wars: Breaking Boundaries, 1918–39. Tickets £12.99 with signed copy of the book, or £3 general admission.  Tickets can be purchased here — Sarah Lonsdale is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London. She is the author of the books Rebel Women between the Wars (2020) and The Journalist in British Fiction and Film (2016) and writes for the Times Literary Supplement, History Today and the Sunday Times.

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