Celebrating International Women's Day, 8th March. Capt Barbara Campbell is one of the maritime inspirations. Alert! She'll be spotlit in a very interesting piece of social media on that day. Very sportingly, in 2016, she posed for the cover of my - now newly re-vamped- book on women's mar hist.
🌈 MUSEUMS. News for people trying to represent queer maritime pasts. Rainbow Seas in Maritime Museums has just agreed new plans for 2026:
# meetings every month, alternating networking & talks
# topics/speakers list now available, up to 2027. Please email me.
Seafarers of colour in the very heart of the British empire. I'm looking fwd to catching their story in this London exhibition and re-launch talk on Friday May 1. lnkd.in/ehgpsZup. Exhibition continues at Lloyd's Register for two weeks afterwards.
Browse this special March IWD edition of the magazine SHE of Change. lnkd.in/eB7Ju6EN. On pp39-40 you will find my five tips to help us write better.🔦 This is about letting the complexity and ambiguity of life be visible 💚💚💚💚 - which AI so often omits.
My new book has arrived already. On sale from Thurs 19 Feb.
You may want to help charity by ordering it it via the Marine Society: lnkd.in/eR8_Nr9D. 😊
'Sexual Histories of SASH at sea: toxic attitudes and individual women’s fightback 1850-1950.' It's not new. Read the story of abused 1860 stewardess Isabella McKenzie. lnkd.in/e6htqkFE.
I've been collecting post-1910 'funny postcards' that portray such behaviour as amusing. I'm not laughing.
'No Quitting: A Cadetship at Sea in the Merchant Navy', by Andrea Barker. Very first frank printed book about #SASHatSea.
Nautilus Telegraph Book of the Month for Women's History Month. Buy via
www.marinesocietyshop.org/no-quitting-....
Proof of how important the campaign against SASH at sea is.
Shoreside women, maritime males, heterosexual sex. I'm interested in the fresh angle, including trafficked Estonian barmaids, in Deborah Warner's version of Britten's opera Peter Grimes.
# Royal Opera House, London, 5-28 May. lnkd.in/eZh-EChj
# Catherine Phipps' blog about it at lnkd.in/eWSGUDzk.
International Women's Day and maritime celebrations afterwards too. 👍 Try these:
~ Watch Nautilus International's video, www.youtube.com/shorts/NO2GP...
~ Attend Women in Maritime Network meeting, Tues 31st March. 8am -9.30.London, Hybrid. www.maritimeuk.org/sign-muk-new...
Publishing today | Ocean Liners and Modern Literature by Faye Hammill writes the literary history of the ocean liner for the first time.
Read this #OpenAccess book here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
#AcademicSky #MaritimeSky #BookSky
