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Kate Mosse

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  1. “Always works in every period of history. If you can divide people who should be allies and partners, then you can write a coach and horses through the middle. And that is what we're seeing at the moment. So I'm very interested in, and this is one of the tones of feminist history for every day of the year, is trying to reclaim a positive look on things and an active look on things. Because when you breed disharmony and despair, you breed inaction. Whereas what we need to do to change things, everybody, male, female, anybody, everybody, who believes in equality, that believes in a person should be judged for what they do and they say, not for what they look like or where they come from. We are hugely in the majority, but yet that is not the impression that's given. So over the last 40, 50 years, there has been an attempt to”

    2025-09-21 · Intelligence Squared · Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Firstly, I think it's working. I think we are in very unusual times at the moment where all of us who study history and read history and think about the patterns of history can say repeatedly, look, history is a pendulum, things get worse and they get better and they go backwards and they go forwards. But what is very significant about now, of course, is that we're in a period of what we might call techno-feudalism, where the hands of a tiny number of men, really, are over the ability to disinform, misinform, spread propaganda, if you like. And although propaganda and things have always existed, the ability to mass produce that out into a global community is unparalleled, which means that part of that is a deliberate, I would say, attempt to”

    2025-09-21 · Intelligence Squared · Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “So, I could choose my birthday twin. My birthday is the 20th of October. I'm a little bit older than her, is Carmela Harris. And I'm very proud to share a birthday with Carmel Harris.”

    2025-09-21 · Intelligence Squared · Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Teachers, librarians, parents, carers came up to me and said, we wish you would write a book that is also quite focused towards a slightly younger readership and has more women and girls who are doing things now. And I thought, well, actually, if a teacher tells you to do something, a librarian tells you to do something, you take it seriously. That's where feminist history for every day of the year came from. And it's for everybody. And it's a book to dip in and dip out of. But it still has at the heart of it two things. One is who gets to write history? And the second thing is, I suppose, a message about every single one of us has a voice and every single one of us has power to try to change things, however overwhelming the big history seems to be. So what I've discovered so far is that every time somebody gets”

    2025-09-21 · Intelligence Squared · Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “You know, a young man from Italy saying, Did I know the extraordinary Jewish Italian scientist retail Levi Montalcini, a young woman from China saying, did I know the Chinese poet Ding Ling? And out of this, it made me think I have worked in and around women's issues, celebrating women's voices, trying to tell a 360 degree story of history for all of my life. I'm in my 60s now. But many of the women that I was being told about I hadn't heard of. And so that led to me asking the question, what is history? Who gets to write it? Who decides who matters and who doesn't? And are there reasons that women so easily disappear from history? And I wrote a book out of that and then did a one woman theatre tour in the UK in 2023. And in that tour, every night,”

    2025-09-21 · Intelligence Squared · Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “One of the things to say is it's been an utter joy to write, although it was incredibly difficult to narrow it down to which woman or woman were you going to put on each day of the year. And in the shorthand in the publishing company, it's been known as FH366, you know, just trying to narrow it down. But it came about for a really rather wonderful reason, which is I a couple of years ago set up a campaign during COVID called Woman in History. And it was because I wanted to do something joyous and celebratory while we were all locked into our homes and feeling so gloomy about things. And so I simply put out on Twitter, which was a lovely thing in those days and worked, a question. I simply said, if anybody would like to share the name of a woman from history, they think should be better known or somebody they'd like to celebrate, let me know. And within days I had thousands of people who'd responded from all over the world.”

    2025-09-21 · Intelligence Squared · Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT