PLEASE NOTE: This event is being hosted at St Albans Cathedral. Books on the Hill will be in attendance to support the event. Copies of Tracy Borman’s book ‘The House of Boleyn’ will be for sale on the night.

Tickets for the event can be purchased via the Cathedral’s website: https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/event/legenda-the-real-women-behind-the-myths-that-shaped-europe-with-dr-janina-ramirez

Join bestselling historian Dr Janina Ramirez as she peels back the myths that shaped Europe. In Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe, she reveals how iconic figures such as Joan of Arc, Lady Godiva and Isabella of Castile were misrepresented and weaponised in the service of national identity—while trailblazing women of the 18th and 19th centuries were quietly written out of history altogether.

Dr Ramirez is a presenter, lecturer and researcher, specialising in interpreting symbols and examining art works within their historical context. She is the bestselling author of Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It.