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Toksvig's Almanac 2021 : An Eclectic Meander Through The Historical Year
Hardback Edition: 1
'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story. The names mentioned are merely temptations. Amuse-bouches for the mind, if you like. How I would have loved to have written out in detail each tale there is to be told, but then this book would have been too heavy to lift.'
Let Sandi Toksvig guide you on an eclectic meander through the calendar, illuminating neglected corners of history to tell tales of the fascinating figures you didn't learn about at school.
From revolutionary women to serial killers, pirate nuns to pioneering civil rights activists, doctors to dancing girls, artists to astronauts, these pages commemorate women from all around the world who were pushed to the margins of historical record.
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group, UK
Pages : 386
Publication date : 2021-01-12
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Humanities, Reference, History, General Reference, General & World History, Yearbooks, Annuals, Almanacs