Seminar series: Women and the First World War
Dr Emma Hanna, University of Kent
‘Mind, Body & Soul: Women Workers on the Western Front, 1914-1919’
A significant number of women worked to support the British war effort very near the battlefields of the Western Front. This talk will give a detailed overview of the wartime activities of women who served in France and Belgium with the largest voluntary-aid organizations such as the British Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Using a variety of maps, photographs, film and archive material, it will underline the vital importance of these women's wartime roles in camps, canteens, rest huts and hospitals, showing how the women of these organisations filled the gaps that the British War Office were unable, or at times unwilling, to fill.
- Venue: In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper.
- Date: Thursday 19 December 2024
- Time: 7pm
The seminar series is presented by In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper – School of History and the University of Kent in partnership with The Western Front Association.
This is the ninth series of seminars on the history of the First World War, free and open to all. The theme for this series is Women and the First World War.
