The subject of women and how they coped with life during the war offers a real range of topics to explore. The image of women during the war which often springs to mind is of smiling girls in munitio...

There are quite a few sources which can help with uncovering the local story and it might help to think in terms of the particular areas in which you are interested. The men who went away: the obviou...

Answer: This was a really interesting question which came in to us from an HLF project in Arundel (www.arundelmuseum.org ). We sent out a request for help to members of the Centre. Owen Davies, who h...

Answer (With thanks to Nicholas Mansfield): At the beginning of the war, part-time regiments of the Territorial Force, were each asked to raise a separate second line unit, as part of the enormous ex...