First World War Archives | Lucienne Boyce

Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War, Wendy Moore, Atlantic Books, 2024

Jack and Eve is an enthralling biography of Vera (Jack) Holme and Evelina Haverfield, the actress and the Hon who met and fell in love during the militant suffrage campaign. …

The Victims of War

I’ve just got back from a trip to the Netherlands, where I went to visit places associated with my work in progress, a biography of suffrage campaigner and pacifist Millicent …

Mrs Fischer’s War, Henrietta Leslie (Jarrolds, 1930) (Gladys Schütze)

Mrs Fischer’s War tells the story of a married couple, Carl and Janet Fischer, during the First World War. Carl was born in Germany but to escape a stern father …

My Month in Books: February 2022

Latchkey Ladies, Marjorie Grant (Handheld Press 2022, first published 1921) The work women did during the First World War, when many moved into occupations formerly carried out by …

2nd Lt John Alfred Raymond Andrews

Phyllis of the Die-Hards I recently bought on eBay a First World War postcard: Phyllis of the Die-Hards. My interest in the card is in the image, which is …