Further reading
Bishop, Alan and Bostridge, Mark, editors (1998) Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
Borden, Mary (1929) The Forbidden Zone
Brittain, Vera (1933) Testament of Youth
Criado Perez, Caroline (2019) Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Noakes, Lucy (2006) Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948
O’Prey, Paul editor (2014) First World War: Poems from the Front (includes poems by Mary Borden, Vera Brittain and May Cannan)
Reid, Fiona (2017) Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists
Shipton, Elizabeth (2014) Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War
Storey, Neil R and Housego (2010) Molly, Women in the First World War
Articles and thesis
Groch-Begley, Hannah The Forgotten Victims of Female Shell-Shock Victims in World War One, by in The Atlantic, 8 September 2014
Keown, Bridget Statement of Particulars, Women’s Experiences of Trauma in the First World War, by in Perspectives on History, 8 June 2017
Resources
Imperial War Museum includes an online search tool, the Women at Work Collection. They also have photography, sound and film archives all with material relating to the First World War.
www.iwm.org.uk/
Read their article: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Women in the First World War
The British Newspaper Archive (free from your local library) gives access to news, articles, family notices (like weddings, birthdays, funerals, memorials), letters, adverts and obituaries.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
The National Archives has great research guides to help you access millions of historical records they hold. Take a look at their First World War Collections. These include medical and pension records for army nurses and war diaries, for example. Some documents are available online and some can only be accessed via a visit to their Archives in Kew, London.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Scarlet Finders, records and diaries relating to British military nurses
www.scarletfinders.co.uk
The Fairest Force, information, records and diaries from nurses in France and Flanders during World War One
www.fairestforce.co.uk
Local archives are really useful if you’re interested in finding out about how the War affected your local area. You should be able to find local archives though your library or searching online.
Ancestry.co.uk Library Edition is free from your local library and gives you access to thousands of historical records about people’s activities and whereabouts including census returns, war records, birth, death and marriage records.
