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From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good - to help serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women had enrolled. These brave and dutiful women played a vital role in Britain's victory. The positive impact of the WVS on wartime society was universally acknowledged. They were instrumental in implementing the large-scale evacuation of children from bomb-targeted cities, in the care of the wounded, and in keeping those in war service fed. Lady Reading, founder and fearless leader, was one of the most influential women in twentieth-century Britain. The story of the WVS has never been fully told before. Social historians Patricia and Robert Malcolmson bring this vital part of the Second World War to life in a vivid and engaging way through the diaries and records of the women serving their country on the Home Front. Women at the Ready promises to be a magnificent saga of sacrifice and determination.… (altro)
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The greatest disservice a woman can do, at the moment, is to consider herself useless. - Lady Reading, 1939
We must all help to win this war on the Home Front - as well as those serving - and overcome the difficulties in doing so. - Mildred Elwes, WVS Village Representative Weston, Lincolnshire, 1941
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The Women's Voluntary Services was the largest women's organisation in British history and, for a few years, perhaps the most important. - Introduction
In late summer 1939 almost all Britons knew they were living through a crisis. - Chapter 1
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Being able to reinvent oneself or one's movement is almost always an asset, and this is a key reason that the WRVS still flourishes, seventy-five years after its birth. - Epilogue
After attending a WVSmeeting in Preston on 5 November 1947, Nella Last did some reading between the lines: 'Lady Reading spoke well as usual,' she wrote, ' but even she could not hide the fact she thought the future prospects a bit dim.' - Chapter 10
From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good - to help serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women had enrolled. These brave and dutiful women played a vital role in Britain's victory. The positive impact of the WVS on wartime society was universally acknowledged. They were instrumental in implementing the large-scale evacuation of children from bomb-targeted cities, in the care of the wounded, and in keeping those in war service fed. Lady Reading, founder and fearless leader, was one of the most influential women in twentieth-century Britain. The story of the WVS has never been fully told before. Social historians Patricia and Robert Malcolmson bring this vital part of the Second World War to life in a vivid and engaging way through the diaries and records of the women serving their country on the Home Front. Women at the Ready promises to be a magnificent saga of sacrifice and determination.
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