Dora Metcalf would be 134 on 11 March 2026 and, for her birthday, I’m pleased to announce that I have secured a publisher for my novel based on her life! The Book Guild is a hybrid publisher who will provide editing, typesetting, cover design, printing and all the necessary behind-the-scenes services to enable the book …
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Dora Metcalf is now officially a ‘notable person’ with her own Wikipedia page. I don’t know exactly how the process works but the search engines look for reference to the person on several reputable websites. Over the last couple of years I have written guest blog posts for various organisations, including the Women Engineers’ History, …
The talks I gave about Dora went well and you can watch the presentation I gave at the British Society for the History of Mathematics conference below. It’s a short one – only 17 minutes – but it developed into an interesting Q&A with the participants. Most of them shared my frustration with the lack …
I will be speaking about Dora’s life and work via Zoom at the National Museum of Computing on 17 June at 6.30pm. You can find out more and book a ticket here. The emphasis for this talk is on how her career led to her role in the Second World War, managing the contract for …
A Bitter Equation 