Frank Turner excavates history's forgotten women

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Frank Turner excavates history's forgotten women
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The singer's eighth album tells the stories of spies, nuns and poets that history has overlooked.

Mata Hari and Sister Rosetta Tharpe - just two women whose contributions have been systematically overlooked by historians

"So, for example, I am fascinated by the story of Amelia Earhart - she was gay, she was the first woman who flew trans-Atlantic, she crash-landed in the desert, no-one knows where she's buried - but I couldn't quite find the way in, so I very reluctantly put that one on the backburner. "By positioning himself at the centre of proceedings, he's inadvertently fishing for a pat on the back," wrote El Hunt inTurner acknowledges"there are sensible, intelligent questions being raised about my presentation of this record".

"In her early life [she] was a vibrant member of the community," says Turner,"and simply by becoming old and being single, she became a hate figure who was accused of witchcraft.

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