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Sabine Price, nee Schweitzer, was born in 1926 in Berlin. Although her maternal grandfather had been chief mayor of Berlin, in 1939 her father was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp because his family had been Jewish before converting to Christianity. Luckily he managed to get out and emigrated to England with two of her siblings. But her mother, two other siblings and Sabine were unable to leave before the war started and so the family was separated for seven years. Living as a half-Jewish child under Hilter, she was forced to leave school early, and during the fighting at the end of the war their house was fire-hosed by the Russians and they only just escaped in time. At 18, having lost her home, she witnessed the horrors of the end of the war, but amazingly her family all survived and were later reunited in England. Sabine has written a short piece about what it felt like to be a half-Jewish child at this time; you can read it here: https://www.rebeccapriceart.com/sabine-s-writing
After art school in England, she became a children's illustrator. She was a great champion of childhood; she had experienced her own childhood incredibly intensely, and I believe that her reassuring, comforting illustrations for children were a reaction to her own family life, fractured as it was by the rise of Hitler and the war. She died aged 93, in 2019.

Based in Glasgow and in collaboration with John Brown Publishing, London, Electric Soup published several issues of the Electric Soup comic

Wm. Fergusson & Sons Weaving Manufacturers was inaugurated in 1818 in the Hilltown district of Dundee but it was not until 1839 that the buildings were erected on the present site. On 30 May 1892 the premises were destroyed by fire and the new Dudhope Works, designed by J. Murray Robertson, came into operation in May 1893. The company was acquired by Low & Bonar Ltd in 1912 and became a Limited Liability Company in that year. Wm. Fergusson and Sons traded under their own name until 1971/2.

The idea of forming the club was first discussed in 1969 by Iain Smart, Hugh Simpson, Bill Wallace and George Waterston. The first meeting was held in 1970, formed by academics of the University of Dundee. The members had a shared interest in Greenland and the Arctic and to join the club was initially by invitation only. Each autumn the club would organise suppers which were open to men only. Females members complained and the Summer Solstice weekends were established which included female members and wives. These events centred on walking but were later changed to Spring meetings. Funding was available for expeditions and for a time the Club was a charity but no longer. The Scottish Arctic Club has their own library which was then merged with the Waterstone library which belonged to George and Irene Waterstone; recently it became part of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Perth. The Club is still active today and membership is open to anyone with an interest in the Arctic.