One Hundred Years Ago

Women's lives in Britain in the First World War - and other things.

Sunday, 21 December 2014

From the Glasgow Herald, 21st December, 1914.

[Tom Smith invented the cracker in 1847.]

Barbara at 10:56

Barbara: I'm retired and live in West Yorkshire (in England). I returned to knitting at the end of 2009, after a long gap. I'm fascinated by old knitting patterns and women's magazines. Since 2011, I have been sorting and cataloguing the collection of publications held by the U.K. Knitting and Crochet Guild - magazines, pattern booklets, pattern leaflets and other publications. It is a wonderful resource for researching the history of knitting and crochet in the 20th century. With the centenary of the First World War in mind, I have been investigating the knitting and crochet activity at that time - the vast quantities of knitted comforts for the troops, but also what women made for their families and their homes.

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