An afternoon with author Sandra Hempel
South-east England (inc. London) & East Anglia
| Event Type: | Author event |
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| Event Organiser: | Surrey County Library Service |
| Booking Link: | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-afternoon-with-sandra-hempel-at-esher-library-tickets-1348399131099?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Other Links: | https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries/your-library/find-your-nearest/esher/events-and-activities |
| Ticket Price: | £5.00 |
| Venue: | Esher Library |
| Venue accessibility: | Fully accesible from Church Path. |
Join us for the latest of our popular author talks at Esher Library when Sandra Hempel will talk about her latest book, Controlling Women, the unfold story of Britain’s first female police force.
About Controlling Women:
Violence against women is out of control. Conviction rates for rape are so low that most survivors think it pointless to report, or later regret doing so. Ruthless trafficking gangs run the sex trade. Women have no confidence in the Metropolitan Police. The year is 1914.
As the First World War began, a group of British campaigners founded the Women Police Volunteers, hoping to protect the vulnerable both from crime and from patriarchal policing and justice. The movement’s pioneers included a militant suffragette who’d spent time behind bars, a moral purity activist, a blue-blooded radical, and a court reporter born in the workhouse to a single mother. Sandra Hempel follows their astonishing journey, through all of its troubling turns.
About the author
Sandra Hempel is a former Times journalist, who has also written for The Guardian, the Daily Mail and other national media.
Her previous books are the award-winning history The Medical Detective, and a Victorian ‘true murder mystery’, The Inheritor’s Powder, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
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