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Scrapbooks relating to women's work in the First World War

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 10/51

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Scrapbooks relating to women's work in the First World War

Date(s): 1913-c.1919

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 Albums

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection consists of press cuttings from national and regional newspapers documenting the work of women during the First World War. The cuttings are arranged in albums under the following headings:

Album 1:

* Medical - Ambulance service, Doctors, Nurses, Hospitals

* Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) - Catering, Clerical, Driving, Horticulture, Leisure, Recruitment, Stable work

* Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) - Drivers, Mechanics, Personal Life

Album 1 also contains one page illustrating Mrs St Clair Stobart's Women's Convoy Corps, on service in the Balkans in 1913 during the Second Balkan War.

Album 2:

* Home Front - Munitions Industry, Land Girls

Album 3:

* Home Front - Public Services [alphabetically, from Baker - Window Cleaner], General

Album 4:

* General - Military Forces and Home Front.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from TWL Printed Collections, Apr 2007.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Women's Library also holds other scrapbooks relating to women's war work:

10/06 Scrapbook [Women's work during the First World War]

10/13 Scrapbook pages of Edith How Martyn: 'Women's War Work', which contains press cuttings on women's activities during the First World War.

10/16 Scrapbook [Women during the First World War]

10/17 Scrapbook: [Suffrage and Women's War Work]

10/23 Scrapbooks of Dame Adelaide Anderson

10/26 Scrapbook relating to women's work in the First World War

10/49 Scrapbook relating to the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), 1917-19, which as well as documenting the formation of the WRNS, also includes a large number of cuttings and photographs relating to women's war work in general.

There is further material held in The Women's Library Archives illustrating women's contribution to the war effort during the 1914-1918 war. See, for example, files within the London Society for Women's Service archive (Ref: 2LSW) or the personal papers of women involved in medical services to the troops such as the papers of Vera Holme (7VJH), Elsie Bowerman (7ELB) and Louisa Garrett Anderson (7LGA).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.