Ebook {Epub PDF} A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray

Britain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It’s high time that it was defined by its women. In this unique history, Jenni Murray tells the stories of twenty-one women who refused to succumb to the established laws of .  · Britain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It’s high time that it was defined by its women. 4/5(1).  · Jenni Murray, a journalist and broadcaster who has presented BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour since , provides an alternative history, in A History of Britain in 21 Women, through short, fascinating, and humorous biographies on twenty-one women who have made Britain what it /5.

Dame Jenni Murray is one the UK's most renowned journalists and broadcasters, and has presented BBC Radio 4's Woman Hour since She is the author of sev. "The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Or so Thomas Carlyle claimed. Jenni Murray, a journalist and broadcaster who has presented BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour since , provides an alternative history, in A History of Britain in 21 Women, through short, fascinating, and humorous biographies on twenty-one women who have made Britain what it is today: Great. 'Jenni Murray has compiled a list of 21 women [that] befits a keen feminist'. (Catholic Herald) 'A fresh and very timely way of looking at British history, illuminated by Murray's own incomparable experience in the world of women's stories. Her twenty-one vignettes - of well-known and little-known alike - benefit from the blend of.

Dame Jenni's talk is a polite yet passionate fingers up to history’s attempts to silence women, on the very week Millicent Fawcett’s statue was unveiled on p. Jenni Murray draws together the lives 21 women to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history. In lively prose Murray reinvigorates the stories behind the names we all know and reveals the fascinating tales behind those less familiar. From famous queens to forgotten visionaries and from great artists to our most influential political actors, A History of Britain in 21 Women is a veritable feast of history. Britain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It’s high time that it was defined by its women. In this unique history, Jenni Murray tells the.