Hello everyone, welcome to Anastas History I've got on the world's best selling, the

most famous, the most brilliant novelist on the podcast right now, it's Kate Moss. She's

one award she's been translated to 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries.

She's the founder of the Global Women in History campaign to honour, celebrate and promote

women's achievements throughout history and from every corner of the world. She's very

very brilliant as you'll hear. You need to buy her new book, it's Warrior Queens and

Quiet Revolutionaries, it's out now. You also need to check out her website because she's

doing a tour, a tour of the UK, talking about these remarkable women, it's going to be brilliant

because as you'll hear, she's an extraordinary communicator.

Lots of her novels are set in historical context, she said that despite not being a professional

story, history is what makes her eyes light up. As such, she is welcome and among friends

right here on this podcast, our eyes light up. In this case, perhaps her ears are heating

up with excitement at the history, it's about to be poured all over them. As ever, that's

a down metaphor that's got a bit out of control, a bit like French government death of the

late 18th century. But anyway, here is the wonderful Kate Moss enjoy.

Kate, thank you very much, come on the pod. It's a pleasure being wanting to do this

for ages. Oh, well that's great, I've been wanting to have your own for ages. What's

going on at the moment? What's going on with women and history at the moment? Why are

we finding out about all these people that we've forgotten to remember? What is the moment

about? I think it's partly because we are witnessing for the first time in quite some time

a dialing back of women's place in the world. And the things that I think a lot of people

took for granted or had forgotten had been fought over in the first place seem to be vanishing

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