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Simon Boyd: Eyewitness – an English woman’s journey from Northumberland to the Russian Revolution
Zoom Webinar ZoomThe second daughter of Albert, 4th Earl Grey, Simon’s grandmother Lady Sybil Middleton (née Grey), was born into a world of privilege. She was nevertheless avid for new experiences and loved adventurous travel, which led her on an extraordinary journey from comfortable Edwardian society to Russia at war and then the maelstrom of the Russian…
Sasha Abramsky ~ Little Wonder: The Extraordinary Story of Lottie Dod
Zoom Webinar ZoomSasha will be talking about his book about the fascinating life of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar. She was a British sporting polymath who dominated women’s sports from the 1880s to the early 1900s: a champion tennis player, golfer, archer, hockey player, mountaineer, ice skater, tobogganist and bicyclist. Sasha will be interviewed…
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: House of Music
Zoom Webinar ZoomKadiatu Kanneh-Mason lives in Nottingham and is a former lecturer in English at The University of Birmingham. She has seven children, all of whom are classical musicians and the family has been the subject of several documentaries. What truly sparkles in this eloquent memoir is the joyous affirmation that children are a gift and we…