AN online event will be held to mark the publication of a paperback during Women’s History Month next month.
Where are the Women, by best-selling Scottish author Sara Sheridan, right, is a guidebook to an imagined Scotland where the achievements of real Scottish women are commemorated in buildings, monuments, street names and statues.
It is described as a “revelation to read about the many women whose remarkable achievements have gone largely unnoticed”.
In celebration of the paperback launching, and to mark Women’s History Month, Where Are The Women? An Evening With Sara Sheridan is being held online on March 4.
Sheridan will discuss her guidebook to the alternative nation, “where the cave on Staffa is named after Malvina rather than Fingal, and Arthur’s Seat isn’t Arthur’s, it belongs to St Triduana”.
For more information on the free online event, visit shorturl.at/kDQRY.
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