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Parlour songs were the pop hits of the Victorian era – and some of the biggest hit-makers of the day were women. Barred from positions in universities, cathedrals and orchestras, this intimate, home-based musical genre was their only outlet. Sadly, their extraordinary contribution has largely been forgotten, overlooked by historians and marginalised in the timeline of music. Now, however, singer Patricia Hammond is putting the record – or, rather, the sheet music – straight, telling tuneful tales of political reform, personal empowerment and the unique role women played in a fascinating period of British musical history.

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Born on Canada’s West Coast, Patricia Hammond moved to the UK in 2001. She has forged a versatile career as a singer, performing opera in Athens and Wexford, oratorio throughout Europe, and ragtime in a 1911 battle bus at the London Transport Museum. In November 2018 she sang 1918’s ‘The Rose of No Man’s Land’ in the Bundestag in Berlin for the German commemoration of the end of the First World War, for guests including Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. Her recordings are played on radio stations around the world. She can be heard and (just) seen in the film Tolkien. She has written for Telegraph Magazine, The Lancet Psychiatry and the Mail on Sunday. From 2013 to 2017, she wrote a music column for Chap, a vintage lifestyle magazine.

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