WWI Wednesday: Becoming a VAD
byThanks to Vera Brittain and her memoir, Testament of Youth, the most enduring female image of WWI is the VAD. At the outbreak of…
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WWI Wednesday: The Women Who Drove Ambulances on the Western Front
byThe WWI Wednesday series, which I began to I present a peek at the WWI we don’t normally see in pop culture, has resulted…
Downton Abbey: Nursing & Military Hospitals on the Home Front
byPerhaps due to poetic license, or historical media hearsay (i.e. inaccuracies that become “fact” due to continuous repetition in TV, movies, and literature), the…