Edith Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse during the First World War who was living in Brussels, Belgium. A compassionate woman who didn’t see the difference between allies or the enemy, she cared for humanity as a whole....
In 2014, the film The Testament of Youth was released, which is an adaptation of the memoirs of Vera Brittain’s first book, also titled The Testament of Youth. This harrowing memoir which was published in 1933, puts a perspective of how the First World War...
We don’t really hear much about women’s rights and activism during the First World War in Britain – just that women eventually got the vote. I can’t say for sure why, was it that the government saw a country full of women working just as well...
Bang! Crash! Tinkle! Tinkle! It’s still pitch black outside, but I quickly get up. I grabbed my little sister, asleep in the bed beside me. We stumble out the bedroom door, quickly following Mommy down the stairs. “Hurry,...
