But the formation of the WAAC was not universally welcomed by society, one objection was that the corps‘was aimed primarily at working class women and during the war this group was viewed with increasing suspicion and dislike by some in the middle classes. They were gainin...
Sheep among the dust during sunset While you are stuck on the road, someone is rowing to work Giant Panda gives birth in Japan St. Petersburg celebrates 'Russia Day' with blooming flowers Incredible! Thousands of sardines dried out in the heat In pics: Siberian tigress with cubs at Novosibirs...
first Scot and first openly LGBT person to hold the celebrated position. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. She moved to Stafford with her parents and siblings when she was six and later, as a pupil at Stafford Girl’s High School, her literary talent...
Pads made from bandages and cotton gauzes nurses used during WW1 are out! There are now the first commercial disposable pads which are the most beloved menstrual product worldwide. Tampons became a hype thing, but not many women used them - they found them "pretty strange and uncomfortable",...
Women and WWI - Women at the Front: Been There, Done That During the war women were to be found mostly at the home front while a minority went close to the actual fronts where the war was being fought, some even into combat.The only woman soldier enlisted in the British Army managed ...
came to power and established the Third Reich. Hitler sent Jews from around Europe to be exterminated at Nazi concentration camps. Six million Jews were killed in these death camps during the Holocaust. It is estimated that 45 to 60 million people were killed during WW2, making it the most...
During WW1, Marie worked on the front line, developing mobile x-ray units –‘Petits Curies’ – to diagnose and save wounded soldiers. The technology used in the Petits Curies is still used today in fluoroscopy machines in hospitals.
Born in 1886, Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC was decorated for bravery in WW1 with the highest military honors and was known as “Mad Jack” as a result of his death-defying actions in the army. In 1917, despairing at the countless deaths and destruction of human life as a result of the mis...
Julian’s death during the Spanish War, when she became extremely and understandably depressed. But, mainly, there are only facts about her place in the family, about her marriage and relationships, her part in the Bloomsbury set, and the cannon of her work. And I found almost nothing on ...
Yet soon after her arrival, Theo discovers a stash of hidden letters tied with a ribbon, untouched for more than a century. The letters – sent from the battlefields of France during WW1 – tell of a young servant from the nearby manor house, Abbotswood, and his love for a woman he wa...