6.30pm, Tuesday 7th of May, Conduit

Networking Drinks from 6pm. Complimentary drinks for the first 20 arrivals.

Lucy Worsley is one of the most famous historians in the country! The joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces can regularly be found presenting fascinating shows on the BBC, and she’ll join us to talk about her favourite women of history, including Agatha Christie.

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness.

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?

Lucy Worsley's recent biography, Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was. Truly fascinating and truly troublesome.

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