My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. Its a love letter to the importance of history and about how, without knowing where we come from - truthfully and entirely - we cannot know who we are.Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard womens history. Within these pages, youll meet the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar, Warrior Queens and Pirate Commanders, the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world and to the home, and the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. It travels the world from the United States of America to Romania, Chile to Pakistan, Uganda to Germany, Azerbaijan to Iceland and spans all periods of time from Ancient Egypt through to twenty-first century Britain. But it is also a detective story of the authors own family history. We follow Kate as she pursues the lost reputation of her great-grandmother, who has all but disappeared from the record . . .Accessible,...

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