Nina Baker
@ninabake2.bsky.social
Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction. Writing book on women's motoring clubs worldwide.
Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE.
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https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE.
No profile? I won't follow you
https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
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“Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea”
This book is the first complete list of the women professional seafarers in the United Kingdom’s Merchant Navy who lost their lives due to enemy action. Detailed profiles have been researched for thos...
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My new book is finally available to buy.
www.lulu.com/shop/nina-ba...
#WW1 #WW2 #MerchantNavy #Womenshistory #History #Historybook
I am sorry it is comparatively expensive for its size but there seemed to be no way to force the price down for something that had to have coloured images.
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#WW1 #WW2 #MerchantNavy #Womenshistory #History #Historybook
I am sorry it is comparatively expensive for its size but there seemed to be no way to force the price down for something that had to have coloured images.
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
My friend @jostanley.bsky.social's book is now out. If you have any interest in #maritimehistory or #womenshistory you will want to buy this. She is THE expert on these topics.
thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
#historybook #history
My friend @jostanley.bsky.social's book is now out. If you have any interest in #maritimehistory or #womenshistory you will want to buy this. She is THE expert on these topics.
thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
#historybook #history
Seafaring Women Through History
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from fl...
thehistorypress.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
My friend @jostanley.bsky.social's book is now out. If you have any interest in #maritimehistory or #womenshistory you will want to buy this. She is THE expert on these topics.
thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
#historybook #history
My friend @jostanley.bsky.social's book is now out. If you have any interest in #maritimehistory or #womenshistory you will want to buy this. She is THE expert on these topics.
thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
#historybook #history
Today I totally disinvested from all #Musk related investments in my portfolio. They were relatively tiny but in order to get rid of them I had to shift about 15% of my holdings in managed trusts of various sorts to other things.
My stockbroker tells me I am far from being alone in this choice.
My stockbroker tells me I am far from being alone in this choice.
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Today I totally disinvested from all #Musk related investments in my portfolio. They were relatively tiny but in order to get rid of them I had to shift about 15% of my holdings in managed trusts of various sorts to other things.
My stockbroker tells me I am far from being alone in this choice.
My stockbroker tells me I am far from being alone in this choice.
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A mosaic depiction of Stephenson's Rocket, by the #SankeyCanal in #StHelens. Made by schoolchildren & artist Bernadette Hughes, seeing it reminds me that planning for events to commemorate the Liverpool-Manchester line's 200th birthday is underway. #MosaicMonday #Railway200 #Rocket2030
📷 my own
📷 my own
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
A mosaic depiction of Stephenson's Rocket, by the #SankeyCanal in #StHelens. Made by schoolchildren & artist Bernadette Hughes, seeing it reminds me that planning for events to commemorate the Liverpool-Manchester line's 200th birthday is underway. #MosaicMonday #Railway200 #Rocket2030
📷 my own
📷 my own
This will surprise no woman anywhere but interesting to see the academic take on the Invisible Load and how to measure it:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426
@wes1919.bsky.social
#mentalload #gender #housework #childcare #emotionalfatigue
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426
@wes1919.bsky.social
#mentalload #gender #housework #childcare #emotionalfatigue
Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load
This paper introduces a novel, scalable methodology to measure individual perceptions of gaps in mental load -- the cognitive and emotional burden associated with organizing household and childcare ta...
arxiv.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
This will surprise no woman anywhere but interesting to see the academic take on the Invisible Load and how to measure it:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426
@wes1919.bsky.social
#mentalload #gender #housework #childcare #emotionalfatigue
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426
@wes1919.bsky.social
#mentalload #gender #housework #childcare #emotionalfatigue
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Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...
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Henrietta Vansittart #Victorian #inventor & #engineer "a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of #engineering matters & considerable versatility of talent". d. #OTD 8 Feb 1883. Fascinating longer read electrifyingwomen.org/the-long-rea... & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
February 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Henrietta Vansittart #Victorian #inventor & #engineer "a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of #engineering matters & considerable versatility of talent". d. #OTD 8 Feb 1883. Fascinating longer read electrifyingwomen.org/the-long-rea... & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
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Lou Alta Merrill (née Melton) "Woman Bridge Builder as good a civil engineer as any man in the United States". University of Colorado graduate & US Bureau of Public Roads bridge #engineer. Set up American Society of Women Engineers & Architects. b. 8 Feb 1895 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Alt...
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Lou Alta Merrill (née Melton) "Woman Bridge Builder as good a civil engineer as any man in the United States". University of Colorado graduate & US Bureau of Public Roads bridge #engineer. Set up American Society of Women Engineers & Architects. b. 8 Feb 1895 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Alt...
As a non-academic historian I find myself quietly quite pleased to find myself located on the periphery of British Academic Historians
February 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
As a non-academic historian I find myself quietly quite pleased to find myself located on the periphery of British Academic Historians
The Mandelson side of all this is being compared to the Profumo Affair.
Whatever John Profumo betrayed, he at least had the decency to spend the rest of his life in obscurity doing charity work, initially menial work, later managerial, at Toynbee Hall.
No prospect of that from any Epstein listees.
Whatever John Profumo betrayed, he at least had the decency to spend the rest of his life in obscurity doing charity work, initially menial work, later managerial, at Toynbee Hall.
No prospect of that from any Epstein listees.
'Prince William and Princess Catherine express deep concern for Epstein victims'
'Concern' is becoming an even vaguer 'thoughts and prayers'. Faugh. Bleccch.
apnews.com/article/brit...
'Concern' is becoming an even vaguer 'thoughts and prayers'. Faugh. Bleccch.
apnews.com/article/brit...
Prince William and Princess Catherine express deep concern for Epstein victims
Prince William and Princess Catherine have expressed concern for Jeffrey Epstein's victims. They released a statement Monday, distancing themselves from former Prince Andrew's ties to the convicted se...
apnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:47 AM
The Mandelson side of all this is being compared to the Profumo Affair.
Whatever John Profumo betrayed, he at least had the decency to spend the rest of his life in obscurity doing charity work, initially menial work, later managerial, at Toynbee Hall.
No prospect of that from any Epstein listees.
Whatever John Profumo betrayed, he at least had the decency to spend the rest of his life in obscurity doing charity work, initially menial work, later managerial, at Toynbee Hall.
No prospect of that from any Epstein listees.
@mercoglianos.bsky.social What ultimately is likely to happen with these ships? Is it worth anyone's effort to just take them and get them scrapped, for instance?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 AM
@mercoglianos.bsky.social What ultimately is likely to happen with these ships? Is it worth anyone's effort to just take them and get them scrapped, for instance?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I am a Brit with no interest in any sports. I have no clear idea what #Superbowl is.
But I note that large bowls of snacks are involved. I am thinking to show solidarity with Transatlantic followers by making myself a bowl of popcorn so I can watch something that is not sport.
But I note that large bowls of snacks are involved. I am thinking to show solidarity with Transatlantic followers by making myself a bowl of popcorn so I can watch something that is not sport.
a woman with glasses is eating popcorn from a box that says pop corn
ALT: a woman with glasses is eating popcorn from a box that says pop corn
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February 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I am a Brit with no interest in any sports. I have no clear idea what #Superbowl is.
But I note that large bowls of snacks are involved. I am thinking to show solidarity with Transatlantic followers by making myself a bowl of popcorn so I can watch something that is not sport.
But I note that large bowls of snacks are involved. I am thinking to show solidarity with Transatlantic followers by making myself a bowl of popcorn so I can watch something that is not sport.
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A newbie's guide to ice hockey at the 2026 Olympics, introducing some of the main storylines, rivalries and star players: www.patreon.com/posts/newbie...
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February 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A newbie's guide to ice hockey at the 2026 Olympics, introducing some of the main storylines, rivalries and star players: www.patreon.com/posts/newbie...
If I have breakfast (yog and fruit) before 0800 is it too soon for a cooked lunch at 1130?
February 8, 2026 at 11:29 AM
If I have breakfast (yog and fruit) before 0800 is it too soon for a cooked lunch at 1130?
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María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
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M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
February 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM
M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
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Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden.
#urbangeology
#urbangeology
February 8, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Keep your eyes peeled! I discovered this large fossilized #ammonite in an underground parking garage staircase in Wiesbaden.
#urbangeology
#urbangeology
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I missed that this had been announced, but am delighted we could celebrate such a distinguished scholar and supporter of the field. #histsci #histSTM
The Agnes Mary Clerke Medal, awarded every three years to an individual who has achieved outstanding personal research into the history of astronomy or geophysics, goes to Prof Clemency Montelle, of the University of Canterbury, NZ.
She said she was "delighted and honoured" to receive the prize.
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She said she was "delighted and honoured" to receive the prize.
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February 8, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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This section of McCulloch's View of Glasgow in 1853 looks almost empty, but it gives us a glimpse of some of the least glamorous yet most essential vessels ever to use the river: the mud punts of the Clyde Navigation Trust.
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February 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM
This section of McCulloch's View of Glasgow in 1853 looks almost empty, but it gives us a glimpse of some of the least glamorous yet most essential vessels ever to use the river: the mud punts of the Clyde Navigation Trust.
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May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ
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Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
February 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
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The latest Construction Historian magazine is thudding through our members' letterboxes. If this is the kind of thing that interests you, you might like to join the society!
www.constructionhistory.co.uk/membership/
www.constructionhistory.co.uk/membership/
February 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
The latest Construction Historian magazine is thudding through our members' letterboxes. If this is the kind of thing that interests you, you might like to join the society!
www.constructionhistory.co.uk/membership/
www.constructionhistory.co.uk/membership/
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1951 Rosemary West graduated in Engineering Sciences, only 3rd woman to do so, working for GEC until sacked after birth of child. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championing women's rights to return to work d. 6 Feb 2013 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
1951 Rosemary West graduated in Engineering Sciences, only 3rd woman to do so, working for GEC until sacked after birth of child. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championing women's rights to return to work d. 6 Feb 2013 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
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Lin Lanying #Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. Spent 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations for microelectronics & optoelectronics. b, #OTD 7 Feb 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Lan...
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Lin Lanying #Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. Spent 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations for microelectronics & optoelectronics. b, #OTD 7 Feb 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Lan...
February 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Looks like it's University of Chicago Press super-sale time again. Might I recommend not getting ebooks from them no matter how good the deal? I got 4 from the last sale, and they're so locked down that they need extra software + can't be annotated. So they miss the point of academic books.
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Looks like it's University of Chicago Press super-sale time again. Might I recommend not getting ebooks from them no matter how good the deal? I got 4 from the last sale, and they're so locked down that they need extra software + can't be annotated. So they miss the point of academic books.