women – Everyday Lives in War

‘I remain your Loving Wife Lizzie’ – Letters in a Skip

July 9, 2018

The sub-title of this book, Letters in a Skip 1917-1919, sums things up neatly. Here is one of those accidental survivals from the First World War, casting a remarkable light on the experiences of or...

A Journey into Russia

May 2, 2018

As the Käthe Buchler exhibition, Beyond the Battlefields, enters its final week, Jennifer Deakin writes about another woman photographer of the period: Florence Farmborough (1887-1978). Jennifer is c...

Beyond the Battlefields: Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in th...

March 19, 2018

Beyond the Battlefields presents a unique series of images made by photographer Käthe Buchler (1876-1930) in Germany before, during and after World War One, and which are part of the collectio...

No Petticoats Here, by Louise Jordan

March 6, 2018

Link to video ‘Behind the Songs’ In this blog, Louise Jordan, talks about how she went about uncovering forgotten stories of women in the First World War for her song writing project ‘No Petticoats H...

Children’s working experiences in the First World War

October 24, 2017

As part of her research into the Home Front in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Sue Mann has been working on the experiences of children. In this piece she comments on the ways in which children were emplo...

Passchendaele, 1917 – as seen and experienced through women’s poetry...

August 9, 2017

In these days when we reflect on the hard battles fought and the many lives lost in Passchendaele, we have the privilege of sharing Dr Viv Newman’s fascinating talk given at the Belgian Ambass...

Anonymous Women No.4: Thoughts on venturing into unfamiliar territory

June 8, 2017

Contributed by Julie Moore In my previous piece, I mentioned an article written by Dr. Nicola Verdon on village women and their work on farms during the First World War. I am familiar with her resea...

Anonymous Women – The Ladies of the Field

April 12, 2017

Contributed by Julie Moore For this third in a series of occasional blogs on ‘anonymous’ women, I thought I would share with you one of those very exciting moments that can happen when doing research...

Anonymous Women and some thoughts on that title

March 30, 2017

Contributed by Julie Moore As promised, the pieces which appear under the title of ‘Anonymous Women’ will be a ‘warts and all’ account of my research process. Already, just a few days in, it is becom...

First Thoughts on Anonymous Women

March 23, 2017

Contributed by Julie Moore Over the past three years, the ‘Everyday Lives in War’ team have heard many stories of how people coped during the four years of the First World War. From allotments to foo...

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