An afternoon with...Janina Ramirez

Name: An afternoon with...Janina Ramirez
Start: 2025-11-08T14:00:00+00:00
Location: The Angel Hotel Abergavenny

Schedule

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm

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Location

The Angel Hotel Abergavenny | Abergavenny, WA

We can’t wait to welcome bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez to Abergavenny for an afternoon of conversation to celebrate the release of her new book, Legenda.
About Legenda
Joan of Arc. Lady Godiva. Isabella of Castile. Their names are well-known, and summaries of their achievements have been recited in classrooms for decades, but these medieval women have been misrepresented, their stories twisted and weaponised.
Meanwhile, ground-breaking 18th and 19th-century women who blazed a trail through revolutionary Europe have been forgotten, their legacies too easily dismissed or ignored.
From the bestselling author of Femina, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends. In Legenda, bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how the identities of women have been co-opted by those intent on crafting national identities.
Questioning established narratives and searching for the real women behind the legends, Ramirez interrogates what defines a nation and who gets to build it, shining a light on how history is so often hijacked to serve the ideological and political interests of the present.
‘Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages and reveals a vibrant world, awash with colour and character’ DAN SNOW
‘Like the interlace stonework on an Anglo-Saxon cross, Janina Ramirez’s themes are interwoven with a consummate skill’ TOM HOLLAND
‘Passionate, provocative and brilliant’ LUCY WORSLEY
Professor Janina Ramirez is a Sunday Times bestselling author, an Oxford lecturer, BBC broadcaster and researcher. She has presented and written over 30 hours of BBC history documentaries and series on TV and radio, and written seven books for children and adults. Her book Femina was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.