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Event 11.
BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Free Thinkers of the North East
Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell
  1. Saturday 24 October
  2. 2.30pm - 3.00pm
  3. The Sage Gateshead, Hall One Foyer, Level Two

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Gertrude Bell was instrumental in drawing up the controversial map of modern Iraq in 1921, the consequences of which still resonate today. She was also an archaeologist, linguist and the greatest female mountaineer of her age.

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