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At the same time, women have made greater advances than in all the previous ages of the human record.
Rebel Women examines the progress of events and the roles of women as they emerged from millennia of silence and suppression to play their part in every modern movement as it unfurled.
In the business world, Rosalind set up and ran the Coventry Centre to work with the Coventry Business School on returning women to the work force after a career break for childcare, a unit which dealt with almost 1000 women in its first two years.
Her most recent book, co-written with the No 1# best-selling military historian Robin Cross, is Warrior Women: Three Thousand Years of Courage and Heroism. As both novelist and critic, Rosalind regularly appears at the Los Angeles International Book Fair, the Gothenburg Book Festival, the London Daily Telegraph Book Festival, the Cheltenham Festival, the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Dartington Hall Festival, and many more.
But in that time, the argument itself has changed.
If The Women’s History of the World was a myth-busting ice-breaker of history at the time, for women now there are many new myths to combat and arctic oceans of new ice to break in their voyage through this old/new world of today.
Rosalind later became a patron of the multi-ethnic Coventry Enterprise Development Agency set up to develop female entrepreneurs large and small, and of the UK-wide Families at Work, which lobbies government and other agencies for improved working conditions and a better work-life balance for all.
A keen amateur horsewoman, Rosalind is also a one-time Lotus owner and performance car enthusiast, and has taken part in time trials at Silverstone race track, UK.
Rosalind in brief
- author of 24 books of fiction and non-fiction. She led a literary festival in Banff, Canada, with the South American Whitbread-Award-winning novelist, Alberto Manguel.
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The Women's History of the Modern World, February 2021Paperback / e-Book
Rosalind Miles
Rosalind Miles lives many lives in one.
received outstanding reviews and has become a classic text which has been translated into over 30 different languages, most recently Romanian, Chinese and Korean.
This and other non-fiction titles have been shortlisted for the Philippa Fawcett Award, and nominated for the James Tait Black and Whitbread literary awards.
Rosalind has since worked with a range of companies to interpret the changing work environment and to communicate evolving policies on diversity issues, women into leadership and women's interests worldwide.
As a journalist her work has appeared at leader level in all the major British newspapers and the Washington Post, Australia Today, and more.
She has twice been received in private audience by the Sultan of Oman, and was invited to attend the State visit of His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, to the Sultanate.
And Another Thing - radio and tv
Rosalind began her broadcasting career on the BBC in a Leap Year edition of R4’s Start the Week, explaining why royal protocol forced Queen Victoria to propose to Prince Albert, rather than the other way round.
The book went on to be a longstanding Sunday Times bestseller, was translated into almost 40 foreign languages and became a New York Times US bestseller under the sporting title of Who Cooked The Last Supper? In all these years it has never been echoed or imitated, let alone surpassed.
On BBC TV’s sister programme, Question Time, Rosalind has appeared with a series of UK luminaries, including Peter Mandelson, Lord Geoffrey Howe, Max Hastings, Jeffery Archer and Paul (now Lord) Boateng.
Dr. Miles book has continued to substantially add to the feminist argument for the last twenty-five years. Her historical novels featuring celebrated queens of the British Isles have been internationally acclaimed, most notably I, Elizabeth, the story of Queen Elizabeth I, recreating the life and times of the Tudor Queen.
Her later works, the Camelot novels based on the Celtic queens of the Arthurian saga, Guenevere and Isolde, have also appeared on best-seller lists in Britain, the US and elsewhere. Rosalind’s non-fiction publications include literary criticism and social commentary on leadership and power, women and work, and masculinity and sex.
About Rosalind
Author, Author! Before leaving academe to pursue writing and consultancy full time, she was the deputy Head of the Media Centre at Coventry University. Her Camelot novels based on the Celtic queens of the Arthurian saga, Guenevere and Isolde, have also appeared on best-seller lists in Britain, the US and elsewhere.
The last two hundred years have witnessed the worst and greatest social upheavals in the history of the world, war, revolution, and genocide, mass murder on an industrial scale. She became a five times national champion of BBC R4’s legendary Round Britain Quiz, partnered by historian Lady Antonia Fraser and by the CEO of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Maddock.
For the Al-Marzouk Printing and Publishing Corporation, a Kuwait-based company with international interests in finance, real estate, and printing, Rosalind directed the London publishing operation, a position of particular significance during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
- founder contributor of The Literary Review, Working Woman UK, and Prospect Magazine.