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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

'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.

Comic postcard c 1950 of young woman with sailor boyfriend, about to enter the tunnel of love at a fair. Her smiling lover has brought a very big anchor, with which to secure the boat while they are in the darkness. The implication is that he will be seeking sex, but she is ignorant of this plan.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🌈 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.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

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.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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...

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Rights, justice, action!

YouTube video by nautilusint

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

'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.

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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. 😊

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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...

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

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drjostanley.bsky.social @drjostanley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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?'

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