The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established in June 1939 with Miss Jane Trefusis-Forbes (1899-1971) as its first Director. In World War I she had been one of the first group of women to wear khaki; joining the Women's Volunteer Reserve, formed in 1914 to set more men fr...
Hello David, Do you know if working-class women from the UK worked in Hong Kong before WWII or during the war? I have conducted some preliminary research which says that British women did work as nannies and cooks at mainly ex pat homes in Hong Kong. I do know that more educated women...
Acting and Activism Award Edit Winner Lena Horne "As an anti-racist activist, she refused to appear before racially segregated US Army audiences in WW2 Italy-since the army was officially segregated, the policy was to have one show solely for white troops and another show solely for black troo...
I’m reading the book Everyone Brave is Forgotten by Chris Cleave. It’s set in the UK during WW2 and I came across this line.“There are two kinds of dinner and two kinds of women. There is only one combination out of four where both will be rotten.’ So maybe – maybe – when ...
Amazon UK:https://tinyurl.com/yc2e3w6y Amazon.com:https://tinyurl.com/9kn9yemf About the Author: Thorne was born in Luton and graduated from Aberystwyth University (history) and from the Open University (Law). She set up a restaurant with her sister and made miniature furniture for collec...
Elizabeth was the first woman to receive a medical degree in America, and also the first lady to be on the UK's medical register. Can it keep a doctor away? Amelia Bloomer She wore trousers in a relationship. Amelia was all about being comfy and breaking gender inequality. She might ...
A great deal has been written about and by the women pilots who flew in Britain and the United States of America as ferry pilots in WW2. Much less was known about the female aviators who flew for Germany - excepting the renowned glider pilot Hanna Reitsch. That was until the publication ...
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(just playing Devil's advocate here before everyone jumps on me ) By saying ''they were women in WW2'', it seems like they're implying that what they are doing is historically accurate. Like I said, there were plenty of women in WW2, but not in the front line in the British ...
The sample of interviews is taken from the AJR Refugee Voices Archive which includes interviews with Jewish women and men from Austria and Germany who came to the UK at the end of the thirties before the outbreak of WW2. This paper concentrates on the women in this...