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Who is Ethel
Ethel MacDonald, 1909 1960.
Ethel MacDonald was born in Motherwell, a town just outside Glasgow on the 24th of February 1909. She was part of a large Bellshill family one of nine children. Leaving home at sixteen she became active in women’s movements and the rights of the working class. Ethel traveled to Spain during the revolution 1936 and was part of a vast army of workers and intellectuals making their way to Spain to join the fight against fascism in spite of their own governments’ policy of “Nonintervention”.
I could do you a talk on the Clydebank Blitz. I’m the author of Mavis’s Shoe, a novel about the blitz as seen through the eyes of a young girl who escapes with others to the hut community at Carbeth. It was published earlier this year. I see it as a reclamation of an event which was barely reported and until recently was hardly known due to censorship and (allegedly) government denial, although that is not the main thrust of the book. It’s a human story about what happens to ordinary people during war and is thus very relevant to today.
I could do you a talk on the Clydebank Blitz. I’m the author of Mavis’s Shoe, a novel about the blitz as seen through the eyes of a young girl who escapes with others to the hut community at Carbeth. It was published earlier this year. I see it as a reclamation of an event which was barely reported and until recently was hardly known due to censorship and (allegedly) government denial, although that is not the main thrust of the book. It’s a human story about what happens to ordinary people during war and is thus very relevant to today.