This year’s Chelsea History Festival will bring the past to life through a series of talks, tours and events. The immersive programme will reveal history in all its variety and demonstrate its ongoing resonance and relevance today.
Janina Ramirez restores the medieval women struck from the historical record to their rightful positions as the power-players who shaped the world we live in today.
The event
The medieval world takes on a different complexion when you examine the lives of the extraordinary women who have been written out of our history.
Male gatekeepers deliberately wrote women out of history, burning their books, destroying their artworks and producing new myths and legends that excluded their stories.
Janina Ramirez will uncover why a selection of extraordinary women, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Aethelflaed and Jadwiga of Poland, were removed from our historical narrative in this fascinating talk that will bring medieval women back to the fore.
The speaker
Dr Janina Ramirez is an Oxford lecturer, BBC broadcaster, researcher and author. She has presented and written over 30 hours of BBC history documentaries and series on TV and radio, and written five books for children and adults.
Understanding their erasure helps us to identify the shocking number of misconceptions that underpin our understanding of history and manipulate our contemporary view of the past.
The sponsor
This event is kindly sponsored and co-curated by the Polish Cultural Institute.
WHEN: 22 September 2022, 7.00pm
WHERE: National Army Museum (Foyle 2), Royal Hospital Rd, London SW3 4HT
TICKETS: £12.00 (Concessions: £10.00). To buy here
For British Poles readers, the National Army Museum is pleased to offer a discount code “SupporterCHF22” for the tickets.
MORE INFO ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: here
