Mind, Body & Soul

In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History, University of Kent, in partnership with the Western Front Association, present a new series of open seminars on the history of the First World War, free and open to all.

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Mind, Body & Soul
Women Workers on the Western Front
Dr Emma Hanna (University of Kent)

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.

practical

• Thursday 19 December 2024
• 7 pm
• educational room, In Flanders Fields Museum (Cloth Hall, Grote Markt, Ypres)

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