Postcards from the Centre – Did you know?
Did you know that during the First World War women workers at E. Day & Co.’s straw hat factory in St Albans produced 750,000 tropical army helmets? Contributed by members of the St Albans Home Fr...
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Bushey’s German Connection
Dianne Payne led the HLF-funded project, Bushey during the Great War: a Village Remembers. She recounts here the story of Bushey’s artistic colony, which was closely associated with the Bavarian pain...
Research in Brief – The female force of conscientious objection ...
Contributed by Sonja Tiernan. An Irishwoman in England The reaction to men joining the army or refusing the call to volunteer was intrinsically different in Britain and Ireland. While generally based...
Food and the First World War in Germany
Contributed by Dr Helen Boak In August 1916 a group of soldiers’ wives wrote to the Hamburg Senate demanding its support for a peace settlement: ‘we want to have our husbands and sons back from the w...
Research in Brief – Organising Women in World War One
On Saturday 21st March, 2015, a conference organised by the Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network, The University of Worcester and the Voices of War and Peace: the Great War an...
Research in Brief – The Great War in the Irish Kitchen: Women’s ...
by Fionnuala Walsh, Irish Research Council-funded PhD Student, Trinity College, Dublin. In March 1915 a woman was removed from a recruiting meeting in Ballina, County Mayo, after interrupting to ask ...
Research in Brief – Mail Matters: Post Office Workers and the Fi...
by Kathleen McIlvenna, Institute of Historical Research As the twentieth century dawned the Post Office took its place as an integral part of everyday life in Britain. Not only was the ...