"It's not women's history. It's history." Join Macclesfield-based historian Dr Jo Bell at the Silk Museum on Saturday afternoon, to hear some of the great speeches and writings of history. You know Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai, but do you know the first named poet in history, or the Hull fishwife Big Lil Bilocca? Do you know why Macclesfield was 'Women's Town?'

Hear an hour-long selection of moving, ambitious and profound words from the women who changed the world - and tell us who you would nominate as a great woman, overlooked or misremembered by mainstream history. Jo is co-author of the best-selling history almanac On This Day She (with Ailsa Holland and Tania Hershman). Tickets £12.