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7th March, 2018 in Women in History
International Women’s Day had a special significance for women in Britain in 2018. A century earlier the Representation of the People Act gave some women in Britain the chance to vote in parliamentary election for the very first time. But the struggle for women’s rights has a lon…
11th August, 2016 in Local & Family History, Military
In August 1916, in the midst of the Battle of the Somme, William George Haynes, was given permission to take leave from active service in France to return to his home in the Worcestershire town of Pershore to help bring in the harvest. After helping to gather in the vegetables an…
24th April, 2016 in Local & Family History, Military
The lives of young girls 100 years ago in rural Worcestershire was very different from today. They joined the newly formed girl guides, or girls friendly societies, and they walked out with their sweethearts. The First World War changed all of this as news of the conflict became…
