Dr Elizabeth Norton - Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy - Wed 22nd July 11.00am
From Cleopatra to Catherine the Great, Boudicca to Elizabeth I, ancient Japan to 19th century Madagascar, female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. In spite of this, women have secured crowns - or fought for them - over several millennia. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Norton tells the scintillating story of the female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to find a place in a man's world.
Dr Elizabeth Norton has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is a well-known historian, broadcaster, and history teacher at Kings College, London. Her specialism is the queenship and significant women of the Tudor period. She is the author of twelve acclaimed books. Her latest book is “Women who Ruled the World”
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From Cleopatra to Catherine the Great, Boudicca to Elizabeth I, ancient Japan to 19th century Madagascar, female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. In spite of this, women have secured crowns - or fought for them - over several millennia. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Norton tells the scintillating story of the female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to find a place in a man's world.
Dr Elizabeth Norton has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is a well-known historian, broadcaster, and history teacher at Kings College, London. Her specialism is the queenship and significant women of the Tudor period. She is the author of twelve acclaimed books. Her latest book is “Women who Ruled the World”
Book signing available
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