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Women
who
World
The monarchs, minds and military
leaders who de ed the odds
CHANGED
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They say history is written by the winners, but for
the most part it has also been written by men. Since
the dawn of time, the ‘stronger sex’ has dominated
society, but every now and again a woman has
broken free of the shackles to prove themselves
every bit as capable of changing the world.
WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Alicea Francis
Editor
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Elizabeth I
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Boudica
Step inside the turbulent
reign of the Tudor queen
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Cleopatra
The truth behind Egypt’s most
famous female pharaoh
How an Ancient British tribal
leader took on the Romans
46
Joan of Arc
19 myths busted about the
Medieval warrior
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Ada Lovelace
Discover the world’s first
computer programmer
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Emmeline Pankhurst
The life of the Suffragette and
political activist exposed
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54
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Queen Victoria
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Dian Fossey
Brittania ruled the waves
under this great monarch
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Anne Boleyn
How one woman changed the
face of England forever
5 things you never knew about
the conservation heroine
66
Amelia Earhart
Inside her flying career and
mysterious disappearance
46
Be part of history
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ELIZABETH I
British,
1533 – 1603
Elizabeth assumed
the throne after the
death of her Catholic
sister Mary, upon
which she faced an
unstable nation torn
apart by religious conflict.
Over the course of her reign she
fought enemies at home and
abroad, uniting England under
one church and oversaw the
exploration of new lands.
Brief
Bio
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ELIZABETH
She fought off foreign invasions and
domestic rebellions but did she really
preside over a golden age?
Written by Jonathan Hatfull
THE TURBULENT REIGN OF
LEANDA
DE LISLE
De Lisle is
the author of
numerous books
including
After
Elizabeth
and
The
Sisters Who Would
Be Queen,
which was a top ten
best-seller. Her latest book is
Tudor; The Family Story
and
is published by Chatto and is
available now.
n 1588, against the advice of her most
trusted aides, Elizabeth I rode out
on her grey gelding to address her
troops gathered at Tilbury in Essex in
preparation of repelling the expected
invasion force of the Spanish Armada. Looking out
at the assembled faces before her, she delivered
a speech that would go down in history and for
many would forever define her: “I know I have
the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the
heart and stomach of a king – and of a king of
England too.”
The speech would have to be transcribed and
redistributed for the soldiers who were unable
to hear the Queen but they had all seen their
monarch, armoured and on her steed, ready to
stand by them to repel the Catholic invasion.
This image of Elizabeth has been the key to our
popular perception of her for centuries, but there’s
much more to her. Elizabeth was cunning and
capricious, but she could be blinded by affection,
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