The Great War is seen as an event that marked and occasioned deep and lasting social change. Historians might argue as to the scale or extent of its effect, but it cannot be denied that post-war Britain was a very different place from that which existed in the idyllic...
he study found that there is little representation of women's war work in the forty novels. A key factor is that they are by middle class authors and written from a middle class point of view. Although historical novels are often used to re-imagine the role of women, WW1 is an ...
Still today, when women are employed as professional soldiers by a number of state armed forces, we tend to believe that war is man's exclusive business. This is plainly untrue, and has always been so, since war can't be reduced just to combat and, anyway, combat is no longer the sol...
American women, however, had been in the European theatre of war since 1914 out of their own initiative as nurses - like Borden or La Motte - journalists (more successful ones than Dorothy Lawrence, as can be seen in the case of Elizabeth S. Sergeant), doing relief work (Edith Wharton,...
At the onset of WW2, women typically did not work unless they were from the lower classes. But when WW2 started, men left to fight in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. So, women entered the workforce in droves. The War Manpower Commission recruited women into employment to help the war ...
Flour war in Spain Newborn babies wear dog costumes to celebrate the New Year One-eyed dog journeys round the world Girl wants to look like a real life doll Meet the oldest serving flight attendant Gaza zoo puts lion cubs up for sale Australian WW1-era naval submarine HMAS AE-1 found af...
Maria Bochkareva and the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death - Who Did What in WW1?: Directed by Toni Steller, Florian Wittig. With Indy Neidell.
Sassoon faced criticism for his relentless condemnation of WW1 and the way it was handled by the press and those in superior positions. InA Soldier’s Declaration, read to the British House of Commons and published in a national newspaper the next day, he stated that “the war is being del...
The physical hard work of the woman is to be revered according to Pope. The imagery of not being caged or penned up anymore (7) is a strong one it explains that the war brought redemption and freedom to women. A definitive declarative statement is made in the 9th line of the poem, ...
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 ...