NEW BOOK! Sisters Behind the Wheel: a global history of women's motoring clubs, driving schools and garages Book Launch: Saturday 9th May, Blythswood Hotel, Glas gow, book here. There was a time, in the early days of motoring, when women motorists were as enthusiastic as their male friends to show off their vehicles, to meet and socialise with others and share knowledge. However, the earliest motoring clubs were all-male preserves and very few admitted women on any basis at all. Garages and the men who ran them did not always seem to respect women's knowledge of their cars and not every woman felt comfortable learning how to drive from a male instructor. The ladies had to do it for themselves. They set up their own driving schools, garages and clubs, and there would come to be clubs throughout Europe and in Australia and the USA. Whilst some associations only ran for a few years, two remarkable clubs, in Germany and the Czech Republic, have been...
Crampton Moorhouse Publications' 3rd book by Nina Baker “Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea” Scottish Merchant Navy women who died as a result of enemy action in the First and Second World Wars. I am an engineering historian and former seafarer, and wrote this book to tell some of the stories of the courageous women seafarers who made the ultimate sacrifice in wartime. My book is the first complete list of the female professional seafarers in the United Kingdom’s Merchant Navy who lost their lives due to enemy action. Detailed profiles have been researched for those women who were of Scottish, bringing their stories to light for the first time. Most names on public war memorials are military men’s names, with a very few for Merchant Navy seafarers. Among the Merchant Navy seafarers who sailed voyage after voyage, knowing that each one might be their last as so many ships were sunk by enemy action, were a few women. I researched this book ...