Tuesday 3rd November – Why Statues?

Look around almost any British town and you will find history standing proudly on its streets. The question is, whose history is it?

Anya Pearson, founder and trustee of the charity Visible Women UK, takes a funny, lively and sometimes jaw dropping look at who Britain chooses to put on a pedestal and the remarkable number of women who have been left off them.

Drawing on the campaigns to create statues of Mary Anning in Lyme Regis and Sylvia Townsend Warner in Dorchester, Anya explores how communities can come together to make history, why monuments still matter and what they reveal about the places in which we live.

Expect extraordinary stories, statistics so absurd you would laugh if they were not true, and a fun interactive quiz that may completely change how you look at your local town centre. There will also be an exclusive announcement about Visible Women UK’s third statue campaign, launching in the New Year, celebrating another extraordinary woman forgotten by history. Be among the very first to hear who she is.