Brave and Bold

100 years of the Ladies' Pond on Hampstead Heath (in all weathers)

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Beschreibung

<strong>A hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond.</strong><p><strong><em>I have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies' Pond, but they also give us an insight into a hundred years of women's lives.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>From code breakers to cake bakers, I have learned that there is no such thing as a 'normal woman'; and over the last hundred years the Pond has played host to thousands of remarkable people.</em></strong></p><p>For a century, the Ladies' Pond on Hampstead Heath has welcomed women from every walk of life: artists and activists, swimmers and sunbathers, friends and free spirits. As Britain's most famous female open-air swimming spot, a pocket of wildness tucked away in the middle of the city, it has long attracted adventurous swimmers from all over the UK and the wider world.</p><p><em>Brave and Bold</em> celebrates one hundred years of this beloved London landmark through the rhythm of a single swimming year, from frozen Januarys to sun-drenched midsummers; through friendships, feminist activism and the exhilaration of open water.</p><p>Created in collaboration with the Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association and rich with previously unseen archive material and new interviews - from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era - this is far more than the story of one pond. It's a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change, from suffragettes to soap stars, war to liberation, and shared flasks of tea to acts of quiet rebellion.</p><p><strong><em>Brave and Bold</em>is both a love letter to Hampstead Heath and to every woman who has ever felt most at home bobbing about in open water.</strong></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780008797393

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

219 x 142 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. UK