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Give Someone a Fearless and Fabulous Christmas this Year!

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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy, peaceful 2025!

Just a reminder – my book about the wonderful women who have played key roles in Brighton & Hove’s history is still available. Last minute gift idea? Treat yourself?

‘The first British woman to swim the Channel, a Ladies World Speed record breaker, an African princess, a Soviet spy-cum-antiques dealer, a woman who started a rogue all-women police force, the first celebrity chef, a woman who ran a suffragette guest-house, the queen who ‘wasn’t amused’ by Brighton, and the brilliant doctor whose story is so shocking the British Army tried to repress it for 100 years.

The streets of Brighton are packed with links to women who made great strides in Law, fashion, sport, politics, education and more. Bringing together these stories, this book guides you around the streets of the city, showing you the hidden corners where history was made by a cast of fearless and fabulous woman who, in their own ways, did things that changed the world.’

The book is available in the shops at The Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museum –https://shop.brightonmuseums.org.uk/

Also at the city’s independent book shops:

the Kemptown Bookshop (https://www.kemptownbookshop.co.uk/), – Brighton’s oldest book shop with a great range of events. Also a great place for a coffee.

Hove’s City Books (https://www.city-books.co.uk/) – some great events here too.

and local cafe in the Ditchling Road/Fiveways area, The Green Room (https://www.thegreenroombrighton.co.uk/) Ever-changing brilliant menu and I don’t think they ever intended to make the best cup of tea in Brighton but they always do.

Cost – £14.99

I also have copies that I can send out by mail order. Apologies it’s not available online but if you send me an email to historywomenbrighton@outlook.com I will get right back to you with costs and payment options.

Thank you all, and festive greetings!

‘The Fearless and the Fabulous’ now available at Hove’s City Books!

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‘The Fearless and the Fabulous. a Journey through Brighton and Hove’s Women’s History’ is now available at Hove’s lively indie bookshop, ‘City Books’. I’m really pleased that my book is for sale at this local book lovers’ institution. I’ve spent many happy hours in this Aladdin’s Cave of reading joy in the past and it’s one of my favourite local businesses!

Although the shop is currently having to be closed for perusing, it’s open on a click and collect basis for pre-ordered books, stationery, cards, and calendars between 10 am and 4pm every day. Just call the shop on the number below or email to order. As in usual times, they will order any title they don’t already have in their impressive stock. And…. wait for this… THEY WILL DELIVER BOOKS within their delivery area FOR FREE for a minimum order of £10, as well as sending books UK-wide for £3!. Books on demand delivered to your door! Last time I looked, that’s cheaper than Amazon and a lot better for us local folks.

So if you want to read about the ninety plus sites of interest in local women’s history while supporting a great local bookshop, just call 01273 725306 or go here:

https://www.city-books.co.uk/

Books are, of course, still available on this website from the ‘New Book for 2021!’ page, or just go here:

New book for 2021! | historywomenbrighton

Happy reading!

Walk in the Steps of the Fearless and Fabulous!

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Unfortunately this year I wasn’t able to lead my women’s history walks around Brighton, Hove and Kemptown during the Brighton Fringe Festival — or at any other time — due to the pandemic. Like most people, many other things came to a halt, or were put on a long, long pause for me. I used the time to finish a project I started a couple of years ago. So many people have asked over the years whether I had written down the stories of Brighton and Hove’s women anywhere. ‘Why not?’ people asked. What was keeping me? Well, 2020 was the year when I could no longer say ‘oh, I’d love to but I just never have the time, you know what it’s like….’

So here it is. After a far-too-long and meandering journey into self-publishing (tip to anyone else embarking on a similar project: read all the ‘how-to’ guides BEFORE you start rather than when you’re three-quarters of the way through; also get acquainted with the many mysterious ways of formatting), I am now sitting amongst boxes of ‘The Fearless and the Fabulous, a Journey through Brighton and Hove’s Women’s History’ that are just waiting, if not to leap from the shelves, at least to find themselves into the hands or armchairs of people wanting to discover some mighty women, past and present, of Brighton and Hove.

‘A delve into Brighton and Hove’s rich women’s history in 230 pages, over 130 illustrations and 4 easy to follow maps. Wander, cycle, skate, bus, or travel in your imagination through the streets of central Brighton, stopping at over 90 sites of importance to women who have lived, worked, created, agitated, unsettled, wrought havoc and made history in our city.’

The book costs £14.95 + £2.70 post and packaging UK wide. As a special offer you can buy two for £29.90 with free p & p.

If you live locally (Preston Park area, Fiveways, Hollingbury, Hollingdean in Brighton) I’m happy to drop off, saving you the cost of p & p. Feel free to enquire by email at historywomenbrighton@outlook.com.

To purchase, just go to the ‘New Book for 2021!’ section of this website.

Eventually ‘The Fearless and the Fabulous’ will be available in local book shops. I’ll post updates.

Happy exploring and hope to see some of you on walks again soon!

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