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Author, Journalist and Teacher

Rachel Hewitt is author of four works of creative non-fiction, including the best-selling Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey and In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors. She is also a critic, broadcaster, journalist, creative writing teacher, ultra-runner and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She writes a popular Substack newsletter called Small Revolutions, Every Day, which explores grief, trauma and recovery through a feminist lens, and she lives in North Yorkshire, in the UK.

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Sept. 17, 2025

Banning Women

Award-winning non-fiction writer and journalist Rachel Hewitt unearths and writes about various corners of women’s history - and the subsequent erasure of that same history - showing us how women are indeed equal participants in all aspects of public life - until we are banned, excluded and erased. In her latest book, In Her Nature, Rachel looks at women’s accomplishments in sports and the great outdoors from the Victorian era to the present, and chronicles the various ways in which men organiz...
Guest: Rachel Hewitt