A comprehensive, fascinating and very readable history of the interesting women who have resided on the Isle of Wight. The Island is sometimes known as Dinosaur Isle.’ It has also been called ‘Ghost Island’, and there are plenty of those, and of witches burnt at the stake, and smugglers – all aptly named ‘Outsiders’.

Nuns and philanthropists find their place, as does a notable pioneer photographer and a now recognised marine engineer, powerboat racers, aviatrixes, sailors, those campaigning for women’s suffrage, and a spy or two, one of whom was nearly hanged. Come along to this talk to hear from the author Susanna Hoe about collating this history of IOW Women together.

Tickets from Ventnor Fringe The Isle of Wight: Women, History, Books and Places (littleboxoffice.com)