E7: Women In The Outdoors - Rachel Hewitt And Rosemary J Brown - Richmond Town Hall

Rachel Hewitt is a prize-winning author: notably the best-selling Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (2010) and more recently, The Last Bastion: A History of Women in Sport 1984-2024 (2024). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her latest book, Every Day. In Her Nature blends memoir, history and a feminist perspective to reveal how women have long found joy, strength and power in outdoor adventure and how men have tried to stop them.

In conversation with Rachel will be journalist, Rosemary Brown. An avid traveler, she is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Churchill Fellow. In her quest to put female adventurers 'back on the map' she speaks at the Globetrotters Club and helped to organise The Heritage of Women in Exploration conference at the Royal Geographical Society. Her latest book is Moving Mountains on women in climbing, celebrates nine extraordinary women climbers commemorated in peaks that bear their names. Defying extreme altitudes and discrimination, they summitted mountains across the globe to achieve a distinction long reserved for men and monarchs. Blending biography, adventure and history, Moving Mountains restores these pioneers to their rightful place in exploration.