I heard it. Really interesting. I especially like the references to that archetyal marvel "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Ann Porter 1962.

Thanks, Nina. Check out my new edition: Seafaring Women Through History. lnk.to/SeafaringWom...
Please be aware, too, of the many books on women's maritime history - as collected for this IWD display at Lloyd's Register Foundation.

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.

Rights, justice, action! YouTube video by nautilusint

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...

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.

'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.

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. 😊

Rainbow anchor in sea and date of Pride in Maritime Day, Feb 28.

Remembering all those seafarers who voyaged feeling that to be safe they had to keep their identities secret from their shipmates.

Book cover showing painting of woman c 1900 in souwester, walking on wet deck of sailing ship. She's happy and serious, carrying binoculars and gazing out at sea

Women making a life at sea may not have always identified as working-class (just as upper servants ddn't). But on ship they worked seven days a week. And gendered discrimination created obstacles. See their story in my new book, out Feb 19. 👍
www.amazon.co.uk/Seafaring-Wo...

Watch out later for my article on pre-1900 shipwrecked women passengers & crew who swam to safety . bit.ly/LRFHECwomen

Today Splash! opens. designmuseum.org/.../splash-a.... Implicitly the London exhibition connects maritime safety & gender: Annette Kellerman. ‘Don’t women have the right to save themselves from drowning when men aren’t around to protect them?'