One Hundred Years Ago

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

Sunday, 11 November 2018

Armistice

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And so it was all over.  Not altogether - news of men who had been killed in the last hours of fighting continued to arrive for some time lo...
Friday, 9 November 2018

War Needlework

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From the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, November 9th 1918. WAR NEEDLEWORK. By VIOLET M. METHLEY. EVEN now there are plenty of women ...
Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Games for the Soldiers

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From The Times, November 6th 1918.  THE MEN'S GAMES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Can you find room for a line, less irrele...
Saturday, 3 November 2018

The Influenza Epidemic in Halifax

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From the Halifax Courier, November 2nd, 1918. INFLUENZA. Grave concern is being aroused throughout the country— and, indeed, in India,...
Friday, 2 November 2018

Woollies and Spanish Flu

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From Illustrated London News, November 2nd 1918. LADIES' NEWS. A quest we are all on these days is for woollies—chiefly those to se...
Sunday, 28 October 2018

Economising on Fuel

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From the Sheffield Independent, 28th October 1918. WEIGH YOUR COAL RATIONS. How Lady Leitrim Practises Economy. One of the sim...
Wednesday, 17 October 2018

A Red Cross Hospital in Wales

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From the Brecon & Radnor Express, 17th October, 1918. PENOYRE RED CROSS HOSPITAL. Sir,—Our first convoy of 30 patients since the re-...
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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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