Sharon Bennett Connolly

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Sharon Bennett Connolly, has been fascinated by history her whole life. She has studied history academically and just for fun – and even worked as a tour guide at historical sites, including Conisbrough Castle. For Christmas 2014, her husband gave her a blog as a gift – www.historytheinterestingbits.com – and Sharon started researching and writing about the stories that have always fascinated. _Ladies of Magna Carta_ is her third non-fiction book. Her first book, _Heroines of the Medieval World_, was published in September 2017 and the second, _Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest_, was released in 2018\. Sharon gives talks on women's history and her TV work includes Australian television's _Who Do You Think You Are_?