Story Cafe: Women Journalists

We are thrilled to welcome members of the team from Glasgow Women's Library to Perth tonight! They will be leading this story cafe on the experience of women journalists.

In this story cafe we will look at two journalists, Glasgow-born Ethel MacDonald, who was reporting from Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, and Amira Al-Sharif, a present-day Yemeni photo-journalist.

Ethel MacDonald was born in Bellshill in 1909. She was a committed Anarchist and became secretary to Guy Aldred of the United Socialist Movement and went to Spain with Guy Aldred’s wife, Jenny to report on the war.  She was imprisoned twice but continued to engineer the escapes of others before finally escaping back to Scotland herself.  Known as the Spanish Scarlet Pimpernel her exploits were widely reported at the time and there was an international search for Ethel when she disappeared. On her return she wrote and made speeches on…